[CraftingLinks]

"Pay journals for “gold” open access, which makes a paper free to read on the publisher’s website, or choose the “green” route, which allows them to deposit a near-final version of the paper on a public repository, after a waiting period of up to 1 year."

yeah, that kind of free huh. Sick.

[ectopod]

That is the old policy.

> But starting in April 2022, that yearlong delay will no longer be permitted: Researchers choosing green open access must deposit the paper immediately when it is published.

[jeremyjh]

If you read further you would come to understand that is the current state of things, and the significance of the submitted article is that a new policy means the papers must be immediately made free.