A brief, 3-minute, tutorial to help researchers understand the recent changes to the NCBI tool, My NCBI. In particular, it addresses adding citations to "My Bibliography".

1. Revisions May 2011 My ncbi & my bibliography For further help and/or information: Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS Head, Research & Scholarly Communication Services LamarSoutter Library, UMMS sally.gore@umassmed.edu X6-1966

2. The National Library of Medicine released a new version of My NCBIin May, 2011. This quick (3-min) tutorial will get you up to speed on using the new interface to create and maintain “My Bibliography”, the tool needed to manage publications in the eRA Commons.

3. Some things remain the same. You still access My NCBI via the “Sign In” link from PubMed’s homepage.

4. Login using either your Username & PW OR via the eRA Login option Remember: If you’ve never created a My NCBI account, the easiest option is to login using your eRA Login. This choice automatically creates a My NCBI account that is linked to your eRA Commons account. If you already have a My NCBI account, you can link it to your Commons account using the “Linked Account” tool in My NCBI Preferences.

5. Your personal identification on the PubMed Homepage lets you know you’re signed in to the system.

7. Saved Searches

8. Collections

9. My BibliographyUsers can choose to add and/or delete widgets to customize their My NCBI page, placing tools they use most here and getting rid of those they find unhelpful.

10. To build and/or add to “My Bibliography”: Run a search in PubMed to yield desired results. You can run this search either from the “Search NCBI databases” widget (w/PubMed selected in the dropdown box) in My NCBI, or you can start in PubMed itself. In this example, the search is run using the widget.

11. Results appear PubMed.

12. Select the citation(s) that you want to add to your “My Bibliography”.

13. Click on the dropdown arrow next to the “Send to” option. Choose the radio button “My Bibliography”. Click the “Add to My Bibliography” button.

14. Verify your selection and click on the “Save” button.

15. You will then be taken back to the display screen in PubMed of the citation(s) you chose to add to your “My Bibliography”. To verify the addition(s) to your “My Bibliography” visit My NCBI (click on link)…

16. … and note the addition(s) to your list. As in the past, citations added to “My Bibliography” immediately update in the corresponding “Publications” list in eRA Commons. This allows you to select those needed for quarterly reports, future applications, etc.

17. Questions? Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS Head, Research & Scholarly Communication Services LamarSoutter Library, UMMS sally.gore@umassmed.edu X6-1966