USC Central Authentication Service (CAS)
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NIH SP
The NIH Service Provider (SP) controls access by scientists, researchers, and collaborators worldwide to protected NIH systems and sites across all NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices. To access resources protected by the NIH SP, external requestors are required to authenticate (often using multifactor authentication) and grant the release of a limited set of information such as name, email, and affiliation. (About NIH: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the medical research agency of the United States making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.)
Trouble logging in?
Students, faculty, staff and affiliates:- Use your network username.
- This is the first portion of your official university email address (before @mailbox.sc.edu or @email.sc.edu).
- Use your VIPID.
- This is the eight-digit number you were assigned when applying for admission or for financial aid.
Continuing education students, non-USC users and non-traditional learning management system users should use their Blackboard Auxiliary ID.
For security reasons, please log out and exit your web browser when you are finished accessing services that require authentication.
Access denied?
If you receive an ACCESS DENIED message, please visit myaccount.sc.edu and click the Account Settings field to setup multifactor authentication.Step-by-step help to set up multifactor authentication can be found on DoIT’s website.