Important Changes to Log into NCBI Accounts: Action to Take

Do you login to NCBI website to manage your PubMed MyNCBI collections, saved searches, email alerts, MyBibliography, or SciENcv profiles? You may need to make a small change to your account to ensure that you can continue to login after June 1, 2021.

What’s happening?

After June 1, 2021, the NCBI will be transitioning to federated account credentials and NCBI users no longer be able to use NCBI-managed credentials to login to NCBI (username/password you set at NCBI). Federated account credentials are those set through eRA Commons, Google, or a university or institutional point of access.

Why is this happening?

This change is occurring to improve account security by using third-party logins.

What do I need to do?

If you currently use a federated login to access your NCBI account, you don’t have to do anything! Just be aware that if you also access your account with an NCBI-managed username and password, that route will be going away.

If you only have NCBI-managed credentials, you can do the following now:

Login to NCBI the way you usually do.
Click on your username in the top bar to load your NCBI Account Settings page.
If your Settings page looks like Figure 1, where you have a “Native NCBI Account” username and password and have no linked accounts, then you will need to add a linked account.
To add a linked account, click the “Change” button under Linked Accounts.
You may choose several options for a linked account including the following:

Google
University/institutional
login.gov

NCBI Accounts Settings page. — Figure 1. NCBI Accounts Settings page showing a “Native” NCBI account without any linked accounts.

What about my account data?

This change will not affect the actual data in your account, such as your MyBibliography, SciENcv, or submission data. The only thing that is changing are the credentials you use to access your account.

What if I have questions?

See NCBI’s Blog post and FAQs
Email to the NCBI help desk info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Contact us at Markuslibrary@rockefeller.edu

By Ilaria Ceglia|2021-05-27T16:31:17+00:00May 27th, 2021|Categories: Library Blog, Library News|Tags: login, NCBI, NIH, update|Comments Off

About the Author: Ilaria Ceglia

Ilaria Ceglia, Ph.D., Science Informationist - Ilaria joined the Markus Library Team in 2017. As science liaison between the Rockefeller scientific community and the library, Ilaria assists Rockefeller scientists find, and effectively use, the scholarly communication tools available at the library, provides customized literature searching, delivers research information reports and publications metric analysis to enhance collaborations between Rockefeller and leading scientific institutions, provides access to digital content to manage large data freely accessible. Ilaria manages a drug development database to perform clinical literature searches and drugs pipeline reports for Rockefeller research faculty, scientists and clinicians. As the NIH compliance monitor for the Rockefeller University, Ilaria helps faculty to solve scientific submission requirements issues and ensures Rockefeller remains compliant with NIH Public Access Policy. Her role also includes evaluate and select new databases to complement other resource center services, organize tutorial training sessions in areas of life sciences and on the use of reference management platforms F1000 Workspace, Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed literature searching, managing recommendation readings library blog for lectures and special seminars. Ilaria is a neuroscientist and a former Rockefeller postdoctoral and research associate of Dr. Paul Greengard’s laboratory. She was a Research Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at City College and Hunter College in New York, where she taught Cell Biology and Biochemistry. As an Italian expat living in New York, Ilaria is an enthusiastic proponent of Italian culture among friends and colleagues.