Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§286b–7 Financial support of biomedical scientific publications

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part D— - National Library of Medicine › Subpart subpart 2— - financial assistance › § 286b–7

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must give grants and make contracts with public or private nonprofit colleges and universities and with individual scientists to support nonprofit biomedical science publications. The money can pay for collecting, writing, editing, and publishing items like reviews, abstracts, indexes, handbooks, bibliographies, and other similar materials about scientific work and developments. Funding for any single periodical publication cannot run longer than 3 years unless the Secretary finds more support is needed to carry out these purposes.

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Title 42, §286b–7

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(a)The Secretary, with the advice of the Board, shall make grants to, and enter into appropriate contracts with, public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education and individual scientists for the purpose of supporting biomedical scientific publications of a nonprofit nature and to procure the compilation, writing, editing, and publication of reviews, abstracts, indices, handbooks, bibliographies, and related matter pertaining to scientific works and scientific developments.

(b)Grants under subsection (a) in support of any single periodical publication may not be made for more than three years, except in those cases in which the Secretary determines that further support is necessary to carry out the purposes of subsection (a).

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 286b–7

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73