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HR 5520 117th Congress House Health

Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2021

Introduced: October 8, 2021 See on congress.gov
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Oct 11, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct 8, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Oct 8, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2021

This bill makes various changes to the processes used by the National Library of Medicine to select scientific journals for inclusion in its databases.

The changes include requiring the use of an objective rubric to evaluate journals for inclusion and providing the right to appeal a delisting. In addition, the library must make publicly available the metrics used to determine whether to list or delist journals.

What's happening now October 11, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
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Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Oct 25, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5520: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5520/
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"H.R. 5520: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5520/.
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H.R. 5520, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5520/.
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[H.R. 5520: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Reform Act of 2021](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5520/)
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