This is a good place to follow the open access for publications -
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.htmlOpen access journal folks are making headway, however, the open access to data is a less well understood issue. They are related but different. Some excellent Open data in the science material can be found here -
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/
It is probably time to update the list on some of the latest reports on this issue!
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