Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§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
Summary
With Board advice, the Secretary must fund nonprofit colleges, universities, and scientists to support nonprofit biomedical publications and reference works; funding for any one periodical is limited to three years unless the Secretary extends it.
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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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102