My NCBI: Move It or Lose It!

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Citation information that has been manually entered into eRA Commons will no longer be available as of eRA’s October software release (currently scheduled for October 21-22, 2010). These citations are identified in Commons currently by a “Citation Source” of “PD/PI Entered.” If you wish to retain this information for future use (i.e., in a future eSNAP report), these citations will have to be moved to My Bibliography, which is accessed through a My NCBI account. For more information on the eRA Commons and My NCBI integration, see NOT-OD-10-103 and “An Easier Way to Manage Citations.”

The easiest way to transfer the information, and to reduce the amount of cutting and pasting from eRA Commons to My Bibliography, is to use My Bibliography’s “Add Citations in PubMed” option to search for your citations that are in PubMed, using search options such as author or title. My Bibliography will query PubMed and present a list of citations that you may save to your My Bibliography section. For citations that you have entered into Commons that are not a part of PubMed, you can copy and paste the citation information from Commons to My Bibliography. Click here for instructions.

If you have questions about linking your eRA Commons and My NCBI accounts, or managing citations in My Bibliography, visit our complete list of How-To steps or contact the eRA Help Desk.