The presentations from the US Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (Washington DC, November 29, 2007) are now online. Two of them explicitly address OA.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/06/2007 03:35:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.