NIH and other Federal Open Access Policies: My NCBI

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Changes to how to log in to My NCBI via PubMed using a federated account, effective June 1, 2021, can be seen in this video:

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, the My NCBI Bibliography allows you to save your citations either directly from PubMed or by manually entering them. Once citations are in My NCBI 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 with awards