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That's inaccurate. Plenty of journals don't allow you to put up a copy on your personal website. For example these fine folks that run many journals:

https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/publishing-your-...




Your link states you retain the right to do this, but that it may be subject to an embargo period. If it's referring to the allowed embargo period according to US law (which requires all federally funded papers be shared publicly) then it would be 12 months. They further allow you to share preprints which are not their professionally-formatted versions (i.e. you can put your pre-review version on arxiv), as does generally everyone else.

Also Taylor & Francis may have decent journals in some niches but generally aren't a great publisher.




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