Recently passed law mandates that the Director of the 
National Institutes of Health require that all 
investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted 
for them to the National Library of Medicines PubMed 
Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed 
manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made 
publicly available no later than 12 months after the 
official date of publication. It applies to NIH-funded 
grants active during FY08 and to contracts signed on or 
after April 7, 2008. Non-compliance may delay or prevent 
the awarding of funds. The NIH homepage has an FAQ at
publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm  to help answer questions 
about the change in policy.This represents a milestone in 
getting information out to all the people of the United 
States and elsewhere who seek publicly-funded medical 
information.