Le chercheur, l’auteur, et l’argent du beurre. Philippe Forest contre Nantes Université – affordance.info

From Google's English:  "Episode 1. Three years ago, a single woman (followed by her board of directors), Carine Bernault, took and assumed the courageous decision to set up what was (and remains to this day) the only mandatory deposit mandate in an open university archive. She did so by drawing inspiration from what one of the pioneers of Open Access, Bernard Rentier, dean of the University of Liège, had been advocating and defending since at least 2007 with undeniable success . In everyday language for those who are not familiar with these issues, this means that all the teacher-researchers at the university she chairs were required to deposit, after a deadline set by law for a digital republic ( article L533-4 ), their research articles financed at least half by public funds, in a space (an institutional digital archive) where they could be consulted by all the individuals of the said university (students, colleagues, you) who would simply like to... read them. It was courageous, very courageous even, because it was radical and it still is. Radical in a world where for years (at least in any case the quarter century since I set foot there and even before) we have tried to explain, train, encourage, plead, convince teacher-researchers that faced with the predation exercised by an oligopoly of rogue scientific publishers who locked access to the results of public research by gorging themselves on rent effects that amounted to organized fraud, faced therefore with Elsevier and a few others, we had as an academic and scientific community the duty and the moral imperative to move and to move quickly.

But here's the thing. Academics are individuals like any other, that is to say, generally dominated by habits, and not very inclined to accept change, even when it is legitimate and allows for the correction of inequalities. So Carine Bernault's decision was courageous and pioneering. And I had publicly praised it as such at the time .

Episode 2. We learned in recent days via the Actualitté website that Philippe Forest had filed an appeal against this decision and had sadly and unfortunately won his case since the University of Nantes would have therefore “revised” its action plan for open science… I hope temporarily. By the Way I note that at no time since the start of the school year (which took place on August 19 for staff) has the University of Nantes communicated on this subject...."