PubGet (3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tool)
The idea behind Pubget is that it speeds up the process of grabbing the full-text PDFs from PubMed search results. The videos below illustrate the idea:
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If you’re at one of the following institutions, you can try a full-featured Pubget that links to full-text PDFs available to these institutions:
- MIT
- Harvard University
- Harvard Medical School
- University of Queensland
- Massachusetts General Hospital
From Pubget’s public site, you can get a feel for how it works, but it’ll only pull up open access PDFs.
To keep up on new developments, you can subscribe to the feed of the Pubget blog.
Interested in getting this service for your library’s users? Get in touch and let them know you’re interested.
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December 31st, 1969 at 11:59 pm
“PubGet (3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tool)” http://tinyurl.com/cqwrv2
April 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
WooHoo!! Pretty nifty stuff. This is all the buzz here today – whole department is buzzing about this blog entry and tool. Thanks so much for bringing it to our attention via your blog.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Thanks, David. This tool is so cool!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:35 am
[...] April 24, 2008 by Jens De Groot The medical librarian and blogger David Rothman keeps a nice list (category of entries) of third party tools to search in PubMed/MEDLINE. The latest of his discoveries is called PubGet and we must say… this way of searching and getting your full-text articles is kinda special. With one single search action you can grab about 10 pdf-files of the full-text and they are opened immediately (at least when the institution has a licence for the specific journals). It certainly can save a lot of your valuable time. [...]
November 29th, 2008 at 4:51 am
This is a very impressive PubMed version. It should be born in mind that it only retrieves pdfs of articles freely available fulltext or from journals your institution subscribes to. But it’s very fast (and there is alreday a link to PubGet on the Wikipedia PubMed article..). The first sample searches on PubGet’s website just have a very high content of free fulltext articles (PMC, PLOS etc.). Still (again): it’s very fast.