From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:49:42 +0100

At the 2001 meeting that launched the Budapest Open Access Initiative
(BOAI) the newly-fledged OA movement outlined two strategies for
making the scholarly literature freely available. Later dubbed green
OA and gold OA, these are now the two primary means of providing open
access, and both types have been mandated by research funders in the
UK.For instance, in 2013 Research Councils UK (RCUK) introduced an OA
policy that favours gold open access, and in 2014 the Higher Education
Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced what is essentially a
green OA policy, which will come into force next year.

So how does the future for open access look?

Some commentary is available here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hefce-elsevier-copy-request-button-and.html