A law in favour of Open Access to be voted in France

The final text of a law “for a digital Republic” in France has been adopted on June the 29th 2016. It will be submitted to a vote by the National Assembly in July and by the Senate in September.

Article 17 is dedicated to open access issues. It states: “When a scientific article, result of a research activity funded for at least half by the State, local authorities or public institutions, by national agencies or by European Union grant, is published in a journal which comes out at least once a year, his author has the right to provide, even if he has granted an exclusive right to a publisher, a free availability in an open format (…)”.