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@yukijoou@fedi.kemonomimi.gay @BathysphereHat@mastodon.online @ljrk@todon.eu No, there's usually these days a copyright transfer to the publisher (assuming it's not published with a creative commons licence in which case it's moot for purposes of this thread). Most publishers allow authors to post either a preprint (version before peer review) or accepted manuscript (after peer review, before formatting) on an institutional site only, after some embargo period (getting longer and longer). Almost all allow sharing privately by email because they can't stop it though some are exploring mechanisms to monitor/limit that too. Authors should talk to their librarians for help to make their work open access, librarians are desperate to help. Once it's on the institutional site it can generally be found on tools like Unpaywall (theoretically also Google Scholar as long as that resists enshittification). (Someone will mention SciHub. It gets much of its content through hacks which Have Side Effects and it doesn't help change the bigger scholarly publishing picture so I'm not a fan but sure, it also exists.)