In a recently released technical bulletin, the National Library of Medicine announced a significant change in how users will log into their NCBI accounts. This change will affect how users get into their MyNCBI, SciENcv, and My Bibliography accounts, as all of these are accessed through the same NCBI login.
When creating a NCBI account, users are currently asked to come up with a username and password for the account; this login info is then managed directly by NCBI. However, starting June 1, 2021, it will no longer be possible to log in using these credentials. Instead, users will be required to connect their NCBI accounts to one of several federated accounts and then they will access NCBI using that login process. Acceptable federated accounts include Google, eRA Commons, or university login credentials.
Accordingly, GW faculty may use their GW NetID and password to log in to their NCBI accounts once this change has occurred.
This change is being implemented to increase the security of NCBI accounts. The NLM bulletin describes the steps required to link a federated account to an NCBI account, but please don’t hesitate to reach out to Himmelfarb’s Research Support librarian, Tom Harrod (tph@gwu.edu) for more assistance.
NLM (Jan 7, 2021) NLM Technical Bulletin: Important Changes to NCBI Accounts Coming in 2021.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf21/jf21_ncbi_login.html
