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 100 STAT. 1518

PUBLIC LAW 99-498—OCT. 17, 1986

SEC. 607. PERIODICALS PUBLISHED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

Title VI of the Act is further amended by inserting after section 606 (as redesignated by section 605 of this Act) the following new section: '


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20 USC 1125a.

Grants.

Libraries.

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" P E R I O D I C A L S P U B U S H E D O U T S I D E THE UNITED STATES

"SEC. 607. (a) In addition to the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 609, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1987, and such sums as may be necessary for the 4 succeeding ^scal years to provide assistance for the acquisition of, and provision of access to, periodicals published outside the United States. "(b) From the amount appropriated under subsection (a) for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall make grants to institutions of higher education or public or nonprofit private library institutions or consortia of such institutions for the following purposes: "(1) to acquire periodicals published outside the United States which are not commonly held by American academic libraries and which are of scholarly or research importance; "(2) to maintain current bibliographic information on periodicals thus acquired in machine-readable form and to enter such information into one or more of the widely available bibliographic data bases; "(3) to preserve such periodicals; and "(4) to make such periodicals available to researchers and scholars. "(c) The Secretary shall approve as a recipient of a grant under this section only an institution or consortium which has an established library or consortium of libraries with collection strengths in either specific geographical areas of the world or particular fields or issues in world affairs which concern one or more countries, or both, and which demonstrates a commitment to share the resources of the collection. "(d) Nothing in this section shall be considered to amend, affect, or define the provisions of title 17, United States Code, relating to copyright.". SEC. 608. SELECTION OF GRANT RECIPIENTS.

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Title VI of the Act is further amended by inserting after section 607 (as added by section 607 of this Act) the following new section: SELECTION OF GRANT RECIPIENTS

20 USC 1125b.

"SEC. 608. (a) The Secretary shall award grants under section 602 competitively on the basis of criteria that separately, but not less rigorously, evaluate the applications for comprehensive and undergraduate language and area centers and programs. "(b) The Secretary shall set criteria for grants awarded under section 602 by which a determination of excellence shall be made to meet the differing objectives of graduate and undergraduate institutions. "(c) The Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, award grants under this part (other than section 602(a)(1)) in such manner as to achieve an equitable distribution of assistance throughout the Nation, based on the merit of a proposal with peer review by broadly representative professionals.".

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