| With at least some of the major publishers, it nowadays is even legal to put the final paper on a public web site or the Archiv. https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/how-to-share: “Authors publishing via subscription models may also self-archive a copy of the accepted version of their manuscript (post-peer review, but prior to copy-editing and typesetting) in an institutional or subject repository, where it can be made openly accessible after an embargo period, in accordance with the relevant Springer Nature self-archiving policy (Nature, Springer, or Palgrave Macmillan)” (More info at https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/s...) https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing: “Accepted Manuscript Authors can share their accepted manuscript: Immediately - via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog - by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript - via their research institute or institutional repository for internal institutional uses or as part of an invitation-only research collaboration work-group - directly by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use - for private scholarly sharing as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement After the embargo period - via non-commercial hosting platforms such as their institutional repository - via commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement“* (Seems a bit less constrained than SpringerNature) |