---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 286b–7"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "286b–7"
heading: "Financial support of biomedical scientific publications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/286b-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part D — National Library of Medicine"
  - "Subpart 2 — financial assistance"
---

# §286b–7. Financial support of biomedical scientific publications

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), with the advice of the Board, shall make grants to, and enter into appropriate contracts with, public or private [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) institutions of higher education and individual scientists for the purpose of supporting biomedical scientific publications of a [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) 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)](#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](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) determines that further support is necessary to carry out the purposes of [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

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