Under Barack Obama, the 12-months-rule was instituted, which demands that any research that is using US-federal funding must become freely accessible to the public at the latest 12 months after its publication.
I participated in last week's Townhall discussion Mikä on avoimen tiedon hinta? ("What's the price to access knowledge?"), which was precipitated by the recent discontinuation of Finnish universities' access to journals published by the Tyler & Francis group.
It seems that many researchers recently received an invitation to join the editorial board of the new open access journal ContROL ("Continuous Research Online Library").