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NIH Public Access Policy

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
My Bibliography Tutorials
How to Add Citations to My Bibliography

Adding citations ...

  1. Log into your NCBI account
  2. Type in the author or title and "Search"
  3. Select the citation(s) and click the "Send to" button to expand the drop-down menu
  4. Select "My Bibliography"
  5. Click "Add"

Step-by-step guide to add citations directly from PubMed.

  1. Log into your NCBI account and navigate to My Bibliography
  2. Click "+Add citations" and select "From PubMed"
  3. Type in the author or title and "Search PubMed"
  4. Select the citation(s) and click (Add to My Bibliography"
  5. Close the window

Step-by-step guide to add citations from PubMed within My Bibliography.

  1. Log into your NCBI account and navigate to My Bibliography
  2. Click "+Add citations" and select "From a file"
  3. Upload a file in either the MEDLINE or RIS format
  4. Click "Done" once the file has loaded

Step-by-step guide to add citations from a file (MEDLINE or RIS format).

Here are the steps for creating a RIS format file from an EndNote Library to be used for uploading citations into an eRA Commons linked MyBibliography account:

  • Select the citations you want to export to My Bibliography
  • Select File–>Export, with the following settings:
    • Save file as type: Text Only (*.txt)
    • Output style: RefMan (RIS) Export. If it is not already listed as an option, find it in “Select Another Style.”
  • Rename the downloaded *.txt file manually by appending *.ris to the file name
  • Upload the .ris file into NCBI MyBibliography
  1. Log into your NCBI account and navigate to My Bibliography
  2. Click "+Add citations" and select "Manually"
  3. Select the type of publication
  4. Enter the publication information in the fields provided. *All required fields are denoted with a red asterisk*
  5. Click "Add Citation"

Step-by-step guide to add citations manually.

Adding Delegates in My Bibliography

My Bibliography users can grant access to other persons (delegates) to view and manage their My Bibliography collection. The delegates will then be able to add or to remove citations in a collection and they will be able to associate citations to grants as well. Delegate invitations are initiated by NCBI account owners.

Step-by-step guide