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HR 9009 116th Congress House

Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2020

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the transparency of the process of the National Library of Medicine in listing and delisting journals in MED… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the transparency of the process of the National Library of Medicine in listing and delisting journals in MEDLINE (or any other current or successor databases or indices), and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 17, 2020 Introduced by: Gosar, Paul A. Republican · Arizona See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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 Latest action December 17, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2020

This bill makes various changes to the processes used by the National Library of Medicine to select scientific journals for inclusion in its databases, including by requiring the library to make publicly available the metrics used to determine whether to list or delist journals.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 9009: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-9009/
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"H.R. 9009: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-9009/.
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H.R. 9009, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-9009/.
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[H.R. 9009: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2020](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-9009/)
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