Via Open Access News, the wonderful news that there are now four OA mandates in Australia:

NHMRC
ARC OA Policy (from eprints)
Queensland University of Technology
University of Tasmania School of Computing

The first two, from two of the largest grant and research administration bodies in Australia, are significant.

Although not mandated, papers from ALIA conferences are recommended to be deposited in ALIA’s e-prints repository as part of their Research and Exchange Partnership programme. I have begun progressively adding all the NLS2006 papers and presentation files (where permission was granted by authors) to the repository. The more associations that encourage their publications from journals, magazines and conferences to be placed either in their own repositories or others, the better.