Pubmed recently revised their Linkout portion of the site and I noticed that I have to enter my user name and password for each Linkout session and it can no longer be saved to my computer as it was in the past.  I wrote to NCBI about this and they responded that "regulations do not allow us to set up a persistent cookie".

NCBI assigns a cryptic UN and PW which is bothersome to remember.

Could there really be a regulation regarding saving a user name and password on one's personal computer to update serials' holdings records? Is updating serials' holdings really that covert of an operation that we can't save this from session to session?

Does anyone know anything about this?
Thanks!

Pamela L. O'Brien
Library Assistant
Biomedical Library
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
901-495-3389