When you create an NCBI account, you have access to My NCBI, a dashboard (Figure 1) that enables you to manage and save your interactions with some NCBI resources. All you need is an existing login from one of many third-party options, so you don’t even have to learn a new password!
Figure 1: A screenshot of a My NCBI dashboard. Added red arrows are pointing to some of the My NCBI functions.
What can you do with My NCBI?
- Manage your Saved Searches and Recent Activity across NCBI databases.
- Access your personal bibliography and any delegated biographies in My Bibliography.
- Manage NCBI Site Preferences, such as default search filters.
- Access your biosketches (online CVs) or any delegated biosketches in SciENcv.
- Create and manage your API key for using NCBI APIs (such as the Entrez Programming Utilities, or E-utilities) on your Account Settings page.
Who benefits from My NCBI?
General public
- You can manage emailed database searches.
- My NCBI can retain and display your information and database preferences for you.
Funded researchers
- If you’re applying for a grant from NIH, NSF, or other other agency that accepts SciENcv documents, you’ll need to use SciENcv and My Bibliography.
- If you’re an NIH-funded author, you can link your eRA Commons account with My Bibliography to manage your compliance with NIH Public Access Policy.
Where can you learn more?
- Account management
- What are 3rd party logins or federated credentials? (This FAQ is a part of archived FAQs and a blog post on NCBI login changes that happened in 2021 through 2022.)
- What should I do if I have multiple NCBI accounts?
- My Bibliography
- My Bibliography help documentation
- A series of FAQs in the "How do I add and maintain citations in My Bibliography?" FAQ section of the Public Access Policy site.
- SciENcv
- API Keys