Increasing access to the results of federally funded scientific research

"The US office of science and technology policy last week responded to the call from a petition to make all research outputs available. The request asked the US government to ‘Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research’. The petition that has thus far had over 65,000 signatures (as of time of going to press) can be found here and the response can be found here. If you cannot be bothered to dig through this, we’ve tried to pull some of the most important bits out ..."