Experienced Pubmed users are enjoying the convenience of saving their search strategies and search results to their personal My NCBI accounts. We have promoted the use of these accounts and explained their features in previous blog posts.

In June 2021 the change will come to how the users log in to their personal My NCBI account. The National Library of Medicine stated its concern for user privacy as the reason for the coming change. The users will no longer be able to log in their My NCBI account with their “NCBI-managed credentials”, i.e. username and password they created specifically for MY NCBI account access.

The detailed instruction on how to change the way you log in to My NCBI using your linked accounts such as Google (your gmail credentials) and their credentials (called “federated account credentials”) can be found in the National Library of Medicine publication called NLM Technical Bulletin.

Once you have linked your account you can then log in to My NCBI using the linked account credentials. Click on Log In button in the right upper corner on the Pubmed page

and you will be prompted with a screen similar to the one below (depending on what account you would choose to link):

Enjoy using My NCBI!