Do you have any sense of the state of open access publishing outside the sciences? I am a graduate student in the humanities, and it sounds like many of these

Do you have any sense of the state of open access publishing outside the sciences? I am a graduate student in the humanities, and it sounds like many of these mechanisms aren't designed to extend beyond the sciences. Most humanities research is not done with support from NIH grants, for example---at least, not directly. Humanities faculty with smaller research budgets are less likely to voluntarily pay a fee to make their work open access through Elsevier and Springer. And I don't know of open office humanities journals on the level of e.g. PLoS One (though of course that doesn't mean they don't exist!). So, it sounds like the only mechanisms you've mentioned that might also apply to the humanities are institutional policies like Princeton's, or the Federal Public Research Access Act. Princeton and other top tier research universities are in a unique position of leverage over journals, because few journals can afford not to accept research from faculty at these institutions, but most researchers are not working at institutions with that kind of leverage. Does the Federal Public Research Access Act have language that extends to humanities research? A lot of humanities research, I think, is indirectly funded through public funds, since universities take a cut of incoming grants for the sciences, and then redistribute that money to humanities departments. The right language in this bill could therefore extend open access requirements to humanities research by requiring that whatever research the money ends up supporting be published open access. Do you have any idea whether language like this is in the bill? (I also worry that, if it isn't, even science researchers could start using the "university cut loophole": the university takes the entire incoming grant and redistributes it to science researchers without open access requirements attached. Is there any danger of this?)