A new but undated report on national research and higher education policies in France (Rapport sur les politiques nationales de recherche et de formations supérieures), an annex to the 2009 finance bill, picks up some OA recommendations from the May 2008 Salençon Report on scientific and technical information (Rapport du comite 1st information scientifique et technique). It recommends talking with publishers about modifying their contracts and access policies, funding publication in fee-based OA journals, using HAL as the national platform for publicly-funded research, and digitizing French scholarly journals. (Thanks to the INIST Libre Accès blog and Hélène Bosc.)
The reports are PDFs and I can't link to machine translations. But here's Google's English translation of the INIST Libre Accès blog post.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/21/2008 11:20:00 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.