If you are keeping up with open access issues in your library, check out the conversations on this listserv: American Scientist Open Access Forum http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/date.html . Another one is the SPARC-OAF list, at https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html . A recent message on that list announced that Congress has reaffirmed support for the NIH proposal to enhance public access to research information.