After the good news from Liège, Flanders now also has an OA mandate:
the FWO (major Flemish research funding body) obliges its researchers
to self-archive all articles coming from research funded by the FWO,
in OA repositories. This needs to be done at the latest one year
after the publication date, to increase visibility and impact. More
information on the conditions can be found in their general agreement
for researchers.
http://www.fwo.be/FWOSubReglementen.aspx?ID=5b0f262d-b851-46cb-a621-51d41e4ea3a2&L=nl#bladw01
This is good news, but could easily be made even better by upgrading the
mandate to Immediate Deposit (ID/OA): Setting access to Open Access can be
delayed for up to a year if the author wishes, but deposit itself must be
done immediately upon acceptance for publication.
(If the author wishes to delay access, they can set access to the deposit
as Closed Access till the release date. Meanwhile the "Fair-Use Button"
can provide almost-OA to all would-be users webwide who see the deposit's
metadata: They need merely paste in their email addresses and click,
sending an automatic email request to the author, who need merely click
to authorize having an individual eprint of the deposit emailed to
the requester.)