Setting Up My NCBI Account

Set up your PubMed My NCBI account to display the Strauss Library Article Linker button through the PubMed Outside Tool option.

  1. Log in to My NCBI
  2. You will be prompted with several login options, scroll to the bottom of the list, and click the “more login options” button:
My NCBI log in page with several login options including more login options.

On the “Find your login provider” there are two options to find Anschutz Medical Campus:

  1. At the top of the page there is a search box available. When you start to type Anschutz, the login link appears under the search box:
Find your login provider search for Anschutz bringing up the Strauss Library link.
  1. Under the search box, click on the letter “U”, then scroll down until you find University of Colorado Denver |Anschutz Medial Campus.
My NCBI Find your provider search page showing a list of providers under U.

 

Click on the login link and you will be taken to the university login page.

CU Anschutz University login screen.

On your My NCBI page, go to NCBI Site Preferences in the top right-hand corner:

My NCBI account page showing NCBI Site Preferences link highlighted with a red box.

On The My NCBI >>Preferences page, find PubMed Preferences. Click on the Outside Tool link:

My NCBI PubMed Preferences showing Outside Tool link and none selected.

On the My NCBI >> Outside Tool Preferences page, click the “U”:

My NCBI Outside Tool Preferences showing the letter U highlighted.

Scroll down to find University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Strauss Health Sciences Library, click the checkbox:

Strauss Library listing in PubMed Outside Tool search list, checkbox is checked.

Strauss Health Sciences Library has now been added as an Outside Tool in your My NCBI account:

My NCBI PubMed Preferences showing Outside Tool link and showing Strauss Library selected.

Now, whenever you search PubMed you can login to My NCBI and you will see the Strauss Library Article Linker button.

You can add additional library Outside Tools to your My NCBI account:

My NCBI preferences showing multiple libraries added to the Outside Tool selection.