According to BBC: Call for freely available science, a Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons wants:
publicly funded research to be made freely available online by means of archived digital information banks [and urges]
the government to consider allocating funds to universities and other organisations to create online repositories where their research can be stored, and viewed by the public free of charge.
Update: Full coverage of this issue (including reaction and comment) can be found at Open Access News.
