As of July 23, 2010, program directors and principal investigators (PD/PIs) will not be able to enter citations manually into eRA Commons and must use My NCBI’s “My Bibliography” tool to manage their professional bibliographies.
In the interest of easing investigators’ bibliography management, improving data quality, and ensuring compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, eRA Commons has partnered with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to link NCBI’s personal online tool, “My NCBI,” to Commons. My NCBI offers an online portal—“My Bibliography”—for users to maintain and manage a list of all types of their authored works, such as articles, presentations and books.
- For more information on how investigators should handle the upcoming changes, see NOT-OD-10-103.
- A step-by-step guide is available on how to set up a “My NCBI” account and access “My Bibliography.”
- You can also see the National Library of Medicine tutorial “Using My Bibliography to Manage Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy” for more details.
- For additional information on My NCBI accounts, see “Why Every PubMed User Needs a Personalized My NCBI Account” in the April 2010 HSLS Update.
For more information, contact the HSLS reference desk, your Liaison Librarian, or e-mail Ask A Librarian.
Parts of this article were reprinted from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) press release.
~ Jill Foust