The open access mandate is composed of two steps: 1. depositing publications into repositories, and 2. providing open access to them within a maximum of 6 months

Open Access: right to freely disseminate your scientific publications if they have been at least half publicly funded, even if you have transfered your exclusive copyright to a publisher. The embargoes last 6 months maximum for hard sciences and 12 months for human and social sciences.
Open Data: The datas, resulting from public funds and unprotected by a specific right will be freely reusable.(Article 17)
TDM: the French Intellectual Property Code has been modified to create a new "Text and Data Mining" exception that will allow public research to explore the digital copies and reproductions from lawful sources, without prior permission of the authors. (Article 18bis)

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