Office of Science and Technology Policy Statement on Public Access

White House Delivers New Open-Access Policy That Has Activists Cheering 
The Obama administration says federally financed research should be made freely available within 12 months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. 

The Chronicle article above has the links to the policy itself as well as a number of statements in response. And here’s Peter Suber’s comparison of the policy to FASTR:

https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ

Memorandum from John Holdren, director of Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf