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@OddMinus1 @RustyBertrand For many of the more prestigious journals they are not allowed, they give up the copyright to the journal so they can't publish it on their own. But they can send out individual copies to other researchers, and in effect that means anyone who asks. Grad students in well funded universities can usually get the paper from their university library which will subscribe to the journal, but researchers in poorer countries often won't have access, but they can ask the authors to send a copy.
@not2b They do give up copyright yes, but part of the publishing agreement usually allows authors to deposit an unbranded version in a university repository, which is then indexed by places like Google Scholar. (Often there's an embargo of a year or two because publishers are jerks, but it's still worth doing for the sake of the people who still want to read it after that time's up.)
I highly encourage all authors to check in with their uni library about this option.
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