Emanating in a Swedish and British context, this article discusses four contemporary tendencies in the two countries’ open access networks. An analysis of research funders’ policy documents is done through actor-networktheory. The study finds that while Swedish council Vetenskapsrådet is defined as a ”spider in the web” of the research funder network, the British network is more fragmentary. As for Bioscientific networks, the Swedish network is of a more peripheral sort while the British consists of sprawling nodes. Within Health Science, both countries have ties to infrastructures for data deposition. Deposition of monographs are central in networks regarding Social Science and the Humanities. It is proposed that funders, libraries and other professionals active within the open access movements considers these tendencies in the forming of activities and mandates. It is also emphasized that further studies are needed to map open access-networks.