PubMed: Ten Tips

Why is the UT Health San Antonio proxy still appearing when I search?
PubMed is prompting you for a UTHSCSA login because your browser or PubMed account is still configured to route through the UTHSCSA library proxy. Try following these suggested methods to remove the proxy:

Remove the UTHSCSA “Outside Tool” in PubMed/MyNCBI

1. Go to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/ and sign in (if you have an NCBI account).
2. Open NCBI Site Preferences (sometimes listed under Account Settings).
3. Find Outside Tool (library linking) and remove/disable “UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)” or set it to None.
4. Save changes, then close and reopen PubMed.

Tip: If you don’t see “Outside Tool,” open PubMed, click your name (top right) → Dashboard → NCBI Site Preferences → Outside Tool.

Clear saved site data for PubMed and the UTHSCSA proxy

Clear cookies/site data specifically for PubMed and the proxy domain; this removes the automatic redirect.

• Chrome / Edge: Settings → Privacy & security → Site settings → View permissions and data stored across sites → search pubmed and libproxy.uthscsa.edu → Clear data for both.
• Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Data… → search pubmed and libproxy.uthscsa.edu → Remove Selected.
• Safari (Mac): Safari → Settings… → Privacy → Manage Website Data… → search pubmed and libproxy.uthscsa.edu → Remove.

Check for proxy/Library helper extensions

Disable anything that auto-routes through a library (examples: LibKey Nomad, Redirector, EZproxy Redirect).

• In your browser, go to Extensions and toggle off or remove these, or open the extension’s settings and turn off UTHSCSA.

Use a clean PubMed link & update bookmarks

• Go directly to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (not a saved/proxied link).
• If you have PubMed or article bookmarks that start with something like https://libproxy.uthscsa.edu/login?url=... edit them to the publisher’s original or the clean PubMed URL (i.e., replace https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=uthscsalib&holding=f1000 with https://pubmed.ncbi.nlmnih.gov)

Quick test

Open a private/incognito window and go to pubmed.gov. If you’re no longer prompted for a UTHSCSA login there, the steps worked.