NIH Public Access Policy

My NCBI is a tool that offers many useful features, including:

• Saving PubMed searches. (and automatically have search results sent to you).
• Saving Collections of citations found in PubMed.
• Customization of the filters and results display in PubMed.

Most importantly for anyone awarded NIH funding, My NCBI has a tool named My Bibliography. My Bibliography, allows you to save your citations either directly from PubMed, from a file, or by manually entering them.  Once citations are in My Bibliography you can easily:

• See whether your publications comply with the NIH Public Access Policy
• Start the compliance process for journal articles
• Associate your publications to awards

Create New My NCBI Account

Principal Investigators and PD’s must use My NCBI’s “My Bibliography” tool to manage their professional bibliographies (as of July 23, 2010, see the full notice here).

If you do not have a My NCBI Account, you will need to create one.

The ability to create usernames and passwords in NCBI has been disabled. You can still create an account using one of our 3rd party sign-in options such as ORCID, Google, or your UC Davis login.

If you log into an account with an unretired NCBI password, you will be redirected to the Password Retirement Wizard. The wizard will guide you through the steps of linking a 3rd-party account if needed and retiring your password.

For more information about the transition to 3rd party sign-in, read the FAQs and Transition Tips.

• Go to PubMed
• Click on ‘Log in’ in the upper right corner of the screen.
• Sign up or Log in with one of the available options

If you have never used My NCBI we strongly recommend clicking on ‘Sign in with NIH login’ and logging in with your eRA Commons login to create your account.

Signing in through one of the Partner Organizations will automatically sync your My NCBI Account, so the easiest option to choose is to sign in via your NIH & eRA Commons account.