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42 U.S.C. § 286b–7 — Financial support of biomedical scientific publications

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 99-158 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 110 words · no verdicts yet

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This law funds nonprofit medical publications like journals and bibliographies. Grants go to universities, nonprofit groups, and individual scientists. Support for any one periodical is normally capped at three years, unless the Secretary decides more is needed.

(a) The Secretary, advised by the Board, makes grants to and signs contracts with public or private nonprofit colleges and universities and with individual scientists. The purpose is to support nonprofit biomedical scientific publications, and to fund the compiling, writing, editing, and publishing of reviews, abstracts, indexes, handbooks, bibliographies, and similar materials covering scientific work and developments. (b) Grants under subsection (a) that support one single periodical publication normally cannot run longer than three years. The Secretary can extend support beyond three years only after determining that continued support is necessary to accomplish subsection (a)'s purpose.
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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).

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 476, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 863.)

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  • 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 99-158 · 99 Stat. 863

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