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David Prosser in Liblicense:The UK Government has just published its Innovation and ResearchStrategy for Growth, outlining how it will support research anddevelopment through the UK's universities:http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdfOf particular interest to readers of this list will be section 6.6onwards which deal with access to research outputs.  To quote:"The Government, in line with our overarching commitment totransparency and open data, is committed to ensuring thatpublicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free andopen access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social andeconomic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UKresearch and encouraging technology transfer. At the moment, suchresearch is often difficult to find and expensive to access. This candefeat the original purpose of taxpayer-funded academic research andlimits understanding and innovation. ... But we need to go muchfurther if, as a nation, we are to gain the full potential benefits ofpublicly-funded research."Taken together with the UK's Science Minister's recent interview inthe Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/08/publicly-funded-research-open-accessthis signifies the strongest commitment to open access we have seenfrom the UK Government.