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Open Access Week Challenge 2022: Day 5 - MyNCBI

Welcome to Day 5!

Welcome to the final day of the HSHSL Open Access Week Challenge! Today, we’ll ask you to use My NCBI to manage your My Bibliography and check your NIH public access policy compliance.

Day 5 Challenge - My NCBI and My Bibliography

My NCBI is an account within PubMed that allows you to save searches and create a bibliography of your own publications using the My Bibliography tool. 

To get started, login to your NCBI account. First time users will create an account and link with a 3rd party login, such as ORCiD. 

Next, create a bibliography using My Bibliography. 

  1. Perform a search in PubMed for the paper you would like to add to your bibliography. 
  2. Check the box next to the citation.
  3. Click Send To.
  4. Click My Bibliography, and then click Add to My Bibliography.
  5. For papers not found in PubMed, Click on the Manage My Bibliography from within your NCBI account. 
  6. In the Display Settings box, click Add Citation.

Day 5 Challenge - NIH Public Access Policy

The NIH public access policy requires all investigators funded by the NIH to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication.

In order to check your compliance with the public access policy, link My Bibliography to your eRA Commons account. To link these accounts:

  1. Click on your login name in the top right of the page.
  2. Click on Account Settings, then scroll down to the Linked Accounts section and click Change.
  3. In the Login Account Options box, scroll down to and click NIH & eRA Commons.
  4. Log on to your eRA Commons account.

Day 5 Bonus Challenge - Check Compliance Using My Bibliography

For full instructions and guidance on using My Bibliography to manage compliance, refer to Managing Compliance to the NIH Public Access Policy. Highlights of this guidance are presented below:

After adding your citations to My Bibliography and linking your eRA Commons account, you should be able to see an overview of your compliance statuses at the top of your My Bibliography page. You can sort your citations by Public Access Compliance to quickly filter to applicable publications. 

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An article may have one of the following statuses: Compliant, Non-Compliant, Not Defined, In Process, and Not Applicable - Exempted. 

Journal articles that are compliant with the Public Access Policy and have a PMCID number listed are marked with a green box:

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Articles that are not compliant with the Public Access Policy are marked with a red box. Clicking on 'edit status' will begin the compliance process.

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Articles that do not have NIH funding information associated with them are considered "not defined" and marked with a red box. Click on "Edit Status" to confirm whether the publication was based on NIH funding, and click on 'add award' to link the NIH funding information.

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Articles that have recently been submitted to the NIH Manuscript Submission System are in process and are marked with a blue box. They have an NIHMS ID number assigned to them.

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Articles that are not covered by the NIH Public Access Policy are labeled as Not Applicable - Exempted and marked with a gray box.

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