Apologies for cross-posting.

More than 50 journal publishers, including all of the major ones, have proposed a new model for federal agencies to comply with the OSTP open access directive released back in February. The model is called CHORUS: Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States. You can read more about it in:

The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/publishers-propose-public-private-partnership-to-support-access-to-research/44005

and

The Scholarly Kitchen
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/06/04/joining-a-chorus-publishers-offer-the-ostp-a-proactive-modern-and-cost-saving-public-access-solution/


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