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§286b–7 Financial Support of Biomedical Scientific Publications

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

With Board advice, the Secretary must give grants and contracts to nonprofit colleges, universities, and individual scientists to support nonprofit biomedical publications and to fund reviews, abstracts, indexes, handbooks, bibliographies, and similar works about scientific developments. Grants for any single periodical are limited to three years unless the Secretary decides more time is needed.

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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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42 U.S.C. § 286b–7

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60