The Royal Society's response to OSTP was from Stuart Taylor (http://twitter.com/PointOf...), Head of Publishing at the Royal Society (RS). For earlier commentaries about the cautious approach of the RS to Open Access, see Richard Poynder's 2005 blog post (http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005...) and a 2005 open letter to the RS, signed by over 60 Fellows and Foreign Members of the RS (http://www.frsopenletter.org/). The most recent position statement of the RS that's available via its website appears to be one dated 12 May 2008 (http://royalsociety.org/General...) - Jim Till