Making the Most of My NCBI: About My NCBI

My NCBI is a powerful tool for use in PubMed and other Entrez databases.  After creating your account and signing in, you can:

Use the My Bibliography feature to:

• Save searches and/or collections of citations and manage them online
  • Search by subject, author, or journal
  • Can use PubMed limits and MeSH subheadings for a very focused search
  • Can search a broad topic and limit to key journals
• Schedule automatic email alerts to your saved searches.
• Select display formats and features like highlighting search terms in result lists
• Choose filters to group and manage your results

• Save your citations as required by the NIH for NIH progress reports and non-competing renewals.
•  Manage article compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.
  • Use Awards View to see whether your journal articles are in compliance. 
  • Submit manuscripts to PubMed Central or designate articles as ones to which the NIH Public Access Policy does not apply.
  • Associate a PI's publications to NIH extramural awards.
  • Link to your eRA Commons account and assign a delegate to manage citations in My Bibliography (optional.)

Kay Hogan Smith, MLS, MPH
Professor/Senior Research Librarian
khogan@uab.edu

(205) 934-2208