Peter Suber at the Open Access News site reports that a US group of librarians, publishers, and others known as the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable released recommendations for open access in publicly funded research. The group "stops short of calling for an OA mandate," the article says, but encourages each funding agency to implement some sort of public access policy. The article lists the group's eight recommendations, which include establishing "specific embargo periods between publication and public access" and addressing the challenges of long-term digital storage.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Eisen's looking for suggestions for an open access discussion he'll be chairing.