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by wowtip 3581 days ago
> 2. A publisher cannot prevent you to do that.

Not directly, but wouldn't it open up a box of issues where publishers make it harder for authors who distribute their papers for free to get published the next time around?

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Not in the way the current system works because the publishers are doing nothing, they are just taking the papers as reviewed by the committee as-is.

In fact, with this law, we are most likely going to see is that the universities will automatically hook into something like: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/

When you submit a paper to a journal, your university normally request that you submit your paper to the internal university store. This store will then automatically push your paper to this open access library after X months.

If this moves this way, publishers would have to say: French researchers cannot publish with us any more....