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The U.S. government now requires that research it sponsors be placed into open-access databases. You could say that this was driven by legislatures via public pressure, but it's still a case of government-backed open-acess.
Is it the entire US government? I was under the impression that it'd been only the NIH so far. A quick look in Wikipedia seems to confirm this, though it does mention an act towards this that was proposed in 2006.
NIH. Patient groups that want to read the medical journals played a role.