The following is interesting: http://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-increases-access-results-doe-funded-scientific-research http://www.energy.gov/

The following is interesting: http://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-increases-access-results-doe-funded-scientific-research http://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-increase... It will be interesting to see how this evolves. I also see more open access publications (where the publication is free for the public, but the author pays the publisher) these days--but I'm not sure if they have subsidies for researchers from smaller institutions.