Pubget Team

2012-01-26T15:40:00.003-05:00

Be on the look out Boston-area schools, QR codes to download Pubget's new and improved iPad app will be hitting your campus soon.

Just like on Pubget.com, you can quickly search through and instantly access your library's subscriptions and now take them on the go with your iPad!

Wait a minute, why wait? You're already on the computer! Click here to get the app now.

Pubget Sponsors UCSF PhD Movie Series

2011-11-17T13:58:00.000-05:00

We here at Pubget know how much serious work is involved in obtaining your PhD but as we have found out humor is just as big of a process! In any case, we're pumped to be sponsoring UCSF's PhD film series this Thursday.

With all the time our research friends are saving by searching on Pubget, they can afford to take a well-deserved break from some intense research.

Free pizza and some laughs, what could be better?

Ever wonder what makes it into Pubget?

2011-11-09T12:15:00.003-05:00

Well you can read our official stance below, but here's the short of it.

As the search engine for life science PDFs, we want to index scientific works from journals that have a strong impact on the scientific community. The journals indexed publish papers which represent the advancements in science, and are the foundation of future discoveries. That's why you'll find both the latest issues of your favorite life science journals, as well as papers that represent the foundation of scientific thinking.

Here's our official stance:

Pubget carefully evaluates and selects content which meets the highest standards of scholarly research from varied disciplines and geographic locations. Journals included in Pubget are examined for timeliness, originality and impact of research, and quality of editorial work. Journals included inPubget contain various article formats from literature review to original research and contain mostly unsolicited works and some commissioned works. The journal’s peer review process is stated clearly with an appropriate percentage of accepted manuscripts and require authors to declare ethical concerns and conflicts related to published works. Many journals publish works reporting on nationally or federally funded research and provide a strong contribution to the field.

Journals with articles that are 100% commissioned, contain less than 3 articles per volume, authored works by editorial board members,advertisement connecting articles, or reprints of previously published works are not included in Pubget.

We hope we're able to strike a balance between covering everything that the scientific research community needs, while maintaining a high quality of search results. In fitting with our goal, we are actively expanding our index to include important research for the life sciences and beyond. Are their journals that you wish we indexed? Tell us in the comments or write to us at team(at)pubget(dot)com.

Photos from our first happy hour

2011-10-27T09:41:00.005-04:00

Thanks to everyone that attended and we trust everyone had a good time. We also gathered some really cool informal feedback on our service and hope to make it even better.

Please look out for more of these or if you have a suggestion on where to have our next one, please contact us and let us know.

Student newspaper outreach

2011-10-03T14:58:00.003-04:00

Some of our student newspaper ads are starting to appear - here is one from the back page of the Columbia Daily Spectator.

A view this week from dev central at Pubget and Chief of Technology Ian Connor.

2011-09-30T13:33:00.002-04:00

I don’t know how many of you heard the news out of Princeton last week. And no, I’m not talking about its US News ranking (although go Tigers). I’m talking about the news that the university will ask its scientists to publish only in open access journals. The impetus was apparently to make sure faculty can send around copies of papers they publish without fear of running afoul of a publisher’s copyright.

The event is the latest in a trend toward open access that began in earnest several years ago, when the U.S. government mandated that all research paid for by taxpayer dollars---through grants from the National Institutes of Health, for example---be available to those taxpayers free of charge. A compromise was struck with publishers, whose business models largely depend on charging for data, whereby papers would still cost money to access for a certain period immediately after publication before being deposited in a free government-run repository thereafter. Prominent universities like Yale and Harvard have also undertaken open-access policies. As a result, some traditionally subscription-only publishers now allow authors to designate that papers be open-access from the outset, for a fee.

As you can imagine, we follow these things rather closely at Pubget, because they have a direct impact on how we get you papers. Pubget is already the fastest way to get you PDFs that are open access (we help you get your subscription PDFs faster, too, if you’re at one of our 400+ institutions). But knowing when a paper’s become open access takes a bit of work---and not just for us, but for publishers themselves: because traditionally papers have either been subscription or open access from the start, a world in which different papers in the same journal could potentially be either taxes traditional infrastructure that was built from a journal’s eye view, if you will.

At Pubget, we look at things the way you do: paper by paper. We’ve been working directly with publishers to help them realize our common mission: of letting you get the information you need to do amazing things. But meanwhile, what the news out of Princeton really got me thinking was how much I want to thank all of you out there who have been writing us whenever they find open-access papers that have fallen through the cracks. So, thank you for helping us help you do science at speed.

Pubget comic t-shirt

2011-09-27T14:49:00.002-04:00

The now famous, Big Bang Theory inspired remake of the Flash inspired t-shirts have arrived at Pubget.

30 million papers on your iPad

2011-09-23T16:39:00.002-04:00

Big news! Our iPad app is now available to download from the App Store. You can get it here (for free).

The app combines our streamlined paper access technology with the iPad's portability. Use the app just like pubget.com to find and save your papers. Unlike other apps on the market, you do NOT need to build a library of papers first, because it comes preloaded with 30 million science papers that you can access with your library's subscriptions.

It's important to mention that the Pubget for iPad app was made possible by our collaboration with Sigma Life Science to develop the app's concept and bring it to you. Learn more here.

App Features:

Search everything in PubMed, ArXiv, JSTOR, IEEE and more
Access your library's subscriptions: it's synced with 450 libraries world-wide (and growing!)
Immediately get the full text PDF through your library
View PDFs inline (no link-outs or dead-ends)
Save papers offline
Type and save notes for specific papers
Search complex queries with Advanced Search

Happy Searching!

What is cool?

2011-08-17T09:38:00.003-04:00

I heard the coolest thing the other day, so cool I had to sit down.

Terry Gross was interviewing Charles Mann on NPR's Fresh Air. Mann has just written a book called "1493" about the ecological aftermath of Columbus' discovery. I'd learned a little about this in school: how Europeans introduced horses, how tomatoes come from the Americas. But I'd never heard that before Columbus, northern North America had no earthworms. They'd been wiped out there by the last Ice Age, says Mann. And so the leaves that fall here in New England would pile up into mats that trees would grow straight out of. Today earthworms turn those leaves into soil. If you spent any time in the woods as a kid, the thought of no earthworms and the ground under your feet having been totally different might have the same effect on you as it did on me.

The story goes that the worms came in soil in the ballast of ships sent to bring tobacco back from Virginia to Europe (tobacco being another American original). In the centuries since, says Mann, a "worm front" has been spreading out from the eastern seaboard. Today it has reached as far as Minnesota, where the Minnesota Worm Watch is deputizing the locals to try to save the native forest. Needless to say I want to read this book. Very cool.

The story got me thinking: what makes something cool? What is it about a book or story or research paper that makes you stop and say "wow" and want to tell people about it? And being practical, can one define a set of metrics or attributes that we can use to keep ourselves in a steady supply of cool?

To be cool something has to be interesting, of course, but also new and unexpected. Connecting otherwise unrelated things---electrodes and cooking hot dogs; the Santa Maria and a 5,000-mile inexorable front of earthworms---seems also to be important. Mixing scales of measure---the very big and very small, or the very quick and very slow---also helps. But are all new, unexpected connections between unrelated things at different scales of measure cool? Do these things explain what makes this paper cool?

What makes a paper cool to you?

What's Hot in Science: Issue 5

2011-08-12T17:42:00.002-04:00

Here's the latest list of the top 15 most read papers in Pubget last month, as determined by our over half-million Pubget users. We hope you'll find some of these papers interesting!

Risk Factors Associated with Incident Cataracts and Cataract Surgery in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) AREDS Report Number 32
Jessica R Chang, Euna Koo, Elvira Agrón, ... Age-Related Eye Disease Study Group
The objective is to investigate potential risk factors associated with incident nuclear, cortical, and posterior subcapsular (PSC) cataracts and cataract surgery in participants in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study.
Ophthalmology [Epub ahead of print] (2011) PMID 21684602
Differences between tight and loose cultures: a 33-nation study
Michele J Gelfand, Jana L Raver, Lisa Nishii, ... Susumu Yamaguchi
With data from 33 nations, we illustrate the differences between cultures that are tight (have many strong norms and a low tolerance of deviant behavior) versus loose (have weak social norms and a high tolerance of deviant behavior).
Science 332:1100 (2011) PMID 21617077
A targeted proteomics–based pipeline for verification of biomarkers in plasma
Jeffrey R Whiteaker, Chenwei Lin, Jacob Kennedy, ... Amanda G Paulovich
We tested whether the analytical performance of a biomarker identification pipeline based on targeted mass spectrometry would be sufficient for data-dependent prioritization of candidate biomarkers, de novo development of assays and multiplexed biomarker verification.
Nat Biotechnol 29(7):625-34 (2011) PMID 21685906
Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy
Günter U Höglinger, Nadine M Melhem, Dennis W Dickson, ... Gerard D Schellenberg
To identify common genetic variation contributing to risk for tauopathies, we carried out a genome-wide association study of 1,114 individuals with PSP (cases) and 3,247 controls (stage 1) followed by a second stage in which we genotyped 1,051 cases and 3,560 controls for the stage 1 SNPs that yielded P ≤ 10(-3).
Nat Genet 43(7):699-705 (2011) PMID 21685912
Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome
Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Jeroen Raes, Eric Pelletier, ... Georg Zeller
By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific.
Nature 473(7346):174-80 (2011) PMID 21508958
Higher Cord C-Peptide Concentrations Are Associated With Slower Growth Rate in the 1st Year of Life in Girls but Not in Boys
N Regnault, J Botton, B Heude, ... M-A Charles
Our study underlines the role of the fetal insulin-IGF-I axis in the relationship between maternal glycemia during pregnancy and birth weight.
Diabetes 60(8):2152-59 (2011) PMID 21700880
Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser
M Marvin Seibert, Tomas Ekeberg, Filipe R N C Maia, ... Janos Hajdu
We show that high-quality diffraction data can be obtained with a single X-ray pulse from a non-crystalline biological sample, a single mimivirus particle, which was injected into the pulsed beam of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.
Nature 470:78 (2011) PMID 21293374
Mapping the NPHP-JBTS-MKS Protein Network Reveals Ciliopathy Disease Genes and Pathways
Liyun Sang, Julie J Miller, Kevin C Corbit, ... Peter K Jackson
Using high-confidence proteomics, we identified 850 interactors copurifying with nine NPHP/JBTS/MKS proteins and discovered three connected modules: "NPHP1-4-8" functioning at the apical surface, "NPHP5-6" at centrosomes, and "MKS" linked to Hedgehog signaling.
Cell 145(4):513-28 (2011) PMID 21565611
EGFR and EphA2 are host factors for hepatitis C virus entry and possible targets for antiviral therapy
Joachim Lupberger, Mirjam B Zeisel, Fei Xiao, ... Thomas F Baumert
Using a functional RNAi kinase screen, we identified epidermal growth factor receptor and ephrin receptor A2 as host cofactors for HCV entry. Blocking receptor kinase activity by approved inhibitors broadly impaired infection by all major HCV genotypes and viral escape variants in cell culture and in a human liver chimeric mouse model in vivo.
Nat Med 17(15):589-95 (2011) PMID 21516087
Haplotype structure in Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
Hadi Poormoghim, Aref Hosseynian and Aryan Javadi
We studied the genotypes of hundreds of women from a large international consortium of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and found that AJ women exhibited long-range haplotypes compared to CNJ women.
Rheumatol Int [Epub ahead of print] (2011) PMID 21597964
Direct observation of nodes and twofold symmetry in FeSe superconductor
Can-Li Song, Yi-Lin Wang, Peng Cheng, ... Qi-Kun Xue
We investigated the electron-pairing mechanism in an iron-based superconductor, iron selenide (FeSe), using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy.
Science 332:1410 (2011) PMID 21680839
Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study
Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Ali Amin Al Olama, Graham G Giles, ... Rosalind A Eeles
We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study for PrCa and previously reported the results of the first two stages, which identified 16 PrCa susceptibility loci.
Nat Genet 43(8):785-791 (2011) PMID 21743467
Exploring the link between MORF4L1 and risk of breast cancer.
Griselda Martrat, Christopher A Maxwell, Emiko Tominaga, ...Miguel Angel Pujana
While this study expands on the role of MRG15 in the control of genomic stability, weak associations cannot be ruled out for potential low-penetrance variants at MORF4L1 and BrCa risk among BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Breast Cancer Res 13(2):R40 (2011) PMID 21466675
Association of genetic variants in complement factor h and factor h-related genes with systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility
Jian Zhao, Hui Wu, Melanie Khosravi, ...Betty P Tsao
We assessed 60 SNPs covering the CFH-CFHRs region for association with SLE in 15,864 case-control subjects derived from four ethnic groups.
PLoS Genet 7:e1002079 (2011) PMID 21637784
Design and Optimization of Potent and Orally Bioavailable Tetrahydronaphthalene Raf Inhibitors
Alexandra E Gould, Ruth Adams, Sharmila Adhikari, ... Katherine M Galvin
This article describes the design and optimization of tetrahydro- naphthalene-derived compounds as potent inhibitors of the Raf pathway in vitro and in vivo.
J Med Chem 54(6):1836-46 (2011) PMID 21341678

What's Hot in Science: Issue 4

2011-07-20T14:02:00.004-04:00

Here's the 15 top read papers from the past month. Enjoy!

1. Effect of Antihyperglycemic Agents Added to Metformin and a Sulfonylurea on Glycemic Control and Weight Gain in Type 2 Diabetes: A Network Meta-analysis
Jorge L Gross et al.
The purpose is to compare the efficacy of add-on antihyperglycemic drugs in patients with type 3 diabetes that is not controlled with metformin and sulfonylurea.
Ann Intern Med 154:672-679 (2011) PMID 21576535
See what else people are reading...

2. Risk Factors Associated with Incident Cataracts and Cataract Surgery in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) AREDS Report Number 32
Jessica R Chang, Euna Koo, Elvira Agrón, ... Age-Related Eye Disease Study Group
Our objective is to investigate potential risk factors associated with incident nuclear, cortical, and posterior subcapsular (PSC) cataracts and cataract surgery in participants in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS).
Ophthalmology (2011) PMID 21684602

3. Evidence for human lung stem cells
Jan Kajstura, Marcello Rota, Sean R Hall, ... Piero Anversa
Surgical lung-tissue specimens were studied in situ to identify and characterize human lung stem cells. We defined their phenotype and functional properties in vitro and in vivo.
N Engl J Med 264(19):1795-806 (2011) PMID 21561345

4. Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome
Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Jeroen Raes, Eric Pelletier, ... Georg Zeller
By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific.
Nature 473:174-180 (2011) PMID 21508958
See what else people are reading...

5. In situ detection of HER2:HER2 and HER2:HER3 protein-protein interactions demonstrates prognostic significance in early breast cancer.
Melanie Spears, Karen J Taylor, Alison F Munro, ... John M S Bartlett
This study demonstrates that in situ detection of HER2 and HER2:3 protein:protein complexes can be performed robustly and reproducibly in clinical specimens, provides novel prognostic information and opens a significant novel opportunity to probe the clinical impact of cellular signalling processes.
Breast Cancer Res Treat (2011) PMID 21638049

6. Effect of Switching Antithrombin Agents for Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction The HORIZONS-SWITCH Analysis
George D Dangas, Roxana Mehran, Eugenia Nikolsky, ... HORIZONS-AMI Trial Investigators
We investigated the outcomes of switching to bivalirudin after initial administration of heparin in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
J Am Coll Cardiol 57(23):2309-16 (2011) PMID 21636031

7. Differences between tight and loose cultures: a 33-nation study
Michele J Gelfand, Jana L Raver, Lisa Nishii, ... Susumu Yamaguchi
With data from 33 nations, we illustrate the differences between cultures that are tight (have many strong norms and a low tolerance of deviant behavior) versus loose (have weak social norms and a high tolerance of deviant behavior).
Science 332(6033):1100-4 (2011) PMID 21617007

8. Mapping the NPHP-JBTS-MKS Protein Network Reveals Ciliopathy Disease Genes and Pathways
Liyun Sang, Julie J Miller, Kevin C Corbit, ... Peter K Jackson
Using high-confidence proteomics, we identified 850 interactors copurifying with nine NPHP/JBTS/MKS proteins and discovered three connected modules: "NPHP1-4-8" functioning at the apical surface, "NPHP5-6" at centrosomes, and "MKS" linked to Hedgehog signaling.
Cell 145(4):513-28 (2011) PMID 21565611

9. Comparing photosynthetic and photovoltaic efficiencies and recognizing the potential for improvement
Robert E Blankenship, David M Tiede, James Barber, ... Richard T Sayre
In order to find common ground for evaluating energy-conversion efficiency, we compare natural photosynthesis with present technologies for photovoltaic-driven electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen.
Science 332(6031):805-9 (2011) PMID 21566184

10. Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser
M Marvin Seibert, Tomas Ekeberg, Filipe R N C Maia, ... Janos Hajdu
We show that high-quality diffraction data can be obtained with a single X-ray pulse from a non-crystalline biological sample, a single mimivirus particle, which was injected into the pulsed beam of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source. Calculations indicate that the energy deposited into the virus by the pulse heated the particle to over 100,000 K after the pulse had left the sample.
Nature 470(7332):78-81 (2011) PMID 21293374

11. Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus
H Agakishiev, M M Aggarwal, Z Ahammed, ... Y Zoulkarneeva
Antimatter nuclei with B < -1 have been observed only as rare products of interactions at particle accelerators, where the rate of antinucleus production in high-energy collisions decreases by a factor of about 1,000 with each additional antinucleon. Here we report the observation of , the heaviest observed antinucleus to date.
Nature 473:353-356(2011) PMID 21516103

12. Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease
Heribert Schunkert, Inke R König, Sekar Kathiresan, ... Nilesh J Samani
We performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals.
Nat Genet 43:333-338 (2011) PMID 21378990

13. A novel ENU-induced mutation in Phospholipase C gamma 2 causes inflammatory arthritis, metabolic defects, and in vitro male infertility in the mouse
Koichiro Abe, Helmut Fuchs, Auke Boersma, ... Martin Hrabě de Angelis
To dissect the molecular complexity of the disease, we employed the combination of mutagenesis and systematic phenotype screening in the mouse.
Arthritis Rheum (2011) PMID 21305534

14. Optimal Freeze Cycle Length for Renal Cryotherapy
Jennifer Lee Young, Elham Khanifar, Navneet Narula, ... Ralph Victor Clayman
There was no difference in immediate cellular necrosis among double 1, 5 or 10-minute freeze cycles.
J Urol 186(1):283-8 (2011) PMID 21600606

15. Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy
Günter U Höglinger, Nadine M Melhem, Dennis W Dickson, ... Gerard D Schellenberg
We confirmed two independent variants in MAPT affecting risk for PSP, one of which influences MAPT brain expression.
Nat Genet 43:699-705 (2011) PMID 21685912

The future is here...

2011-07-12T15:56:00.001-04:00

"The future is already here---it's just not very evenly distributed."

So goes the old saying by William F. Gibson, sci-fi noir visionary and author of the cult classic Neuromancer. He's right, of course. And you don't have to stray too far from Pubget to see it.

I work at one of the greatest hospitals in the world, a 600-bed tertiary care center in Boston. It's on the cutting edge of medical technology. And yet, like cutting-edge hospitals everywhere, many of its countless computers and the software they run are not cutting edge at all: small screens, old software.

There are good reasons for this, reasons that chief information officers at any large organization struggle with all the time. One is the expense of updating hardware and software; another is reliability, especially at places where decisions are literally life and death. The result is a tension between the need to maintain a working status quo and the desire to update in order to leverage new technologies that can make an organization go faster---technologies like Pubget.

Our users tell us how amazing it is to type in a search on Pubget and get the PDF right away. But it's easy to take for granted all the pieces that have to be in place to make Pubget work. Your computer has to have a modern browser (sorry, Internet Explorer 5 and 6). Your browser has to be able to display any PDF inline (ahem, Google Chrome on Mac). When these things aren't in place, you have to have the know-how and access privileges to download or install new software. And of course your processor and internet connection have to be fast enough to let you do all these things at speed.

The truth is, while a lot of us take these things for granted, many of us just don't have them. The future is here, it's just not very evenly distributed.

Large organizations tend to update many of their computers all at once, but they don't do this often. Between updates, browsers and plugins improve, but users are often prevented from installing them. This prevents chaos inside the organization and makes it easier for IT staff to diagnose and resolve problems to keep it running smoothly. But what if you're one of the many people who work at one of these organizations and still want the benefit of PDFs right away? What if you know the future's here and want your share?

As we've grown here at Pubget we've been thinking a lot about people like you, and we've been working on a solution. Over the summer we'll be rolling out some changes to Pubget.com that should make it easier to get PDFs fast no matter where you are or what computer setup you have. You'll still be able to use the site as you see it today. But we hope you'll find the new changes useful.

We also hope you'll tell us what you think! The future may be unevenly distributed, but with your help we can do our best to get you there.

What's Hot in Science: June

2011-06-08T10:19:00.004-04:00

The latest issue of What's Hot in Science is out!
Keep reading for the current, most-popular papers in Pubget, as determined by the search patterns of our over half-million Pubget users.

1. Effect of Antihyperglycemic Agents Added to Metformin and a Sulfonylurea on Gylcemic Control and Weight Gain in Type 2 Diabetes: A Network Meta-analysis.
Jorge L Gross et al.
The purpose is to compare the efficacy of add-on antihyperglycemic drugs in patients with type 3 diabetes that is not controlled with metformin and sulfonylurea.
Annals of Internal Medicine 154:672 (2011)
See what else people are reading...

2. Sickle Hemoglobin Confers Tolerance to Plasmodium Infection
Ana Ferreira, Ivo Marguti, Ingo Bechmann, ... Miguel P Soares
Our findings provide insight into molecular mechanisms via which sickle Hb confers host tolerance to severe forms of malaria.
Cell 145:398-409 (2011)

3. Evidence for a Link Between TNFRSF11A and Risk of Breast Cancer
Núria Bonifaci, Marta Palafox, Pasquale Pellegrini, ... Eva González-Suárez
We show that a common genetic variant near the 5'-end of TNFRSF11A, rs7226991, is associated with breast cancer risk in the general population and among carriers of mutations in the breast cancer 2, early onset (BRCA2) gene.
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2011)

4. Bortezomib Stabilizes Mitotic Cyclins and Prevents Cell Cycle Progression via Inhibition of UBE2C in Colorectal Carcinoma
Prashant Bavi, Shahab Uddin, Maqbool Ahmed, ... Khawla S Al-Kuraya
We therefore investigated the prognostic value of UBE2C alterations in CRC and UBE2C signaling in CRC cell lines. UBE2C protein expression and UBE2C gene copy number were evaluated on clinical samples by immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization in a TMA format.
American Journal of Pathology 178:2109 (2011)

5. Enterotypes of the Human Gut Microbiome
Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Jeroen Raes, Eric Pelletier, ... Georg Zeller
We identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific. We also confirmed the enterotypes in two published, larger cohorts, indicating that intestinal microbiota variation is generally stratified, not continuous.
Nature (2011)

6. Ghrelin Enhances Olfactory Sensitivity and Exploratory Sniffing in Rodents and Humans
Jenny Tong, Erica Mannea, Pascaline Aimé, ... Matthias H Tschöp
We recently identified ghrelin receptors in olfactory circuits in the brain. We therefore investigated the role of the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin in olfactory processing in rodents and humans, testing the hypothesis that ghrelin lowers olfactory detection thresholds and enhances exploratory sniffing, both being related to food seeking.
Journal of Neuroscience 31:5841 (2011)

7. Highly Efficient miRNA-Mediated Reprogramming of Mouse and Human Somatic Cells to Pluripotency
Frederick Anokye-Danso, Chinmay M Trivedi, ... Edward E Morrisey
We show here that expression of the miR302/367 cluster rapidly and efficiently reprograms mouse and human somatic cells to an iPSC state without a requirement for exogenous transcription factors.
Cell Stem Cell 8:376 (2011)

8. A Comparison of Prasugrel at the Time of Precutaneous Coronary Intervention or as Pretreatment at the Time of Diagnosis in Patients with Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Design and Rationale for the ACCOAST Study
Gilles Montalescot, Leonardo Bolognese, ... Jochen Goedicke
The primary objective is to test the hypothesis that prasugrel pretreatment is superior to prasugrel non-pretreatment as measured by a reduction in the composite end point of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke, urgent revascularization, or glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor bailout through 7 days from randomization.
American Heart Journal 161650 (2011)

9. Exploring the Link Between MORF4L1 and Risk of Breast Cancer
Griselda Martrat, Christopher A Maxwell, ... Miguel Angel Pujana
Proteins encoded by Fanconi anemia (FA) and/or breast cancer (BrCa) susceptibility genes cooperate in a common DNA damage repair signaling pathway. To gain deeper insight into this pathway and its influence on cancer risk, we searched for novel components through protein physical interaction screens.
Breast Cancer Research 13:R40 (2011)

10. Discovery of a Clinical Candidate from the Structurally Unique Dioxa-bicyclo [3.2.1]octane Class of Sodium-Dependent Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors
Vincent Mascitti, Tristan S Maurer, Ralph P Robinson, ... Tong Zhu
We present the design, synthesis, preclinical evaluation, and human dose predictions related to 4. This compound demonstrated robust urinary glucose excretion in rats and an excellent preclinical safety profile.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2011)

11. Haplotype Structure in Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers
Hadi Poormoghim, Aref Hosseynian and Aryan Javadi
We studied the genotypes of hundreds of women from a large international consortium of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and found that AJ women exhibited long-range haplotypes compared to CNJ women.
Rheumatology International(2010)

12. The Genome of the Domesticated Apple (Malus x Domestica Borkh)
Riccardo Velasco, Andrey Zharkikh, Jason Affourtit, ... Roberto Viola
We report a high-quality draft genome sequence of the domesticated apple (Malus × domestica). We show that a relatively recent (>50 million years ago) genome-wide duplication (GWD) has resulted in the transition from nine ancestral chromosomes to 17 chromosomes in the Pyreae.
Nature Genetics 42:833 (2010)

13. Response- Cretaceous Extinctions
Peter Schulte, Laia Alegret, Ignacio Arenillas, ... Pi S Willumsen
NO ABSTRACT.
Science 328:753 (2010)

14. Altered Histone Acetylation is Associated with Age-Dependent Memory Impairment in Mice
Shahaf Peleg, Farahnaz Sananbenesi, Athanasios Zovoilis, ... André Fischer
We show that memory disturbances in the aging brain of the mouse are associated with altered hippocampal chromatin plasticity.
Science 328:753 (2010)

15. The Kinetic Patterns of the Change in the Radionuclide Concentration in the Composition of Georgian Tea
L M Mosulishvili, N M Katamadze, N I Shoniia and E N Ginturi
The paper is concerned with the results of a study of behavior of artificial radionuclides in Georgian tea technological products after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Station.
The Journal of Immunology 35:42 (1990)

Say it with pictures

2011-05-16T17:21:00.003-04:00

A picture is worth a thousand words. At Pubget we're always talking about all the papers you can read on the site, especially if you're at an activated institution. (Being "activated" means your school or workplace works with Pubget so we can give you all your journal subscriptions.) Our focus on papers is part of how we make science faster for you.

But clicking through this week's New England Journal of Medicine---I have it set as one of my favorite journals, so the latest issue is only ever a click away from the Pubget home page---reminded me of another cool thing about getting PDFs right away: you get to see the figures right away, too.

Take Images in Clinical Medicine, one of the coolest features of the NEJM. Each week, Images in Clinical Medicine describes a medical finding in pictures, captioned with a paragraph about how the patient presented and what the finding means. These pictures are dramatic, arresting, sometimes shocking. A leg and foot that are mottled pink and yellow due to cholesterol emboli. A threadlike white worm growing in an eye. Blackened, charred-looking fingers due to a blood viscosity problem. These are only a few of the many interesting cases the NEJM has covered in recent years.

Checking out the latest Images in Clinical Medicine was one of our favorite things to do each week back in med school. We would have spent hours just flipping through them, if there had been a way to do that, but there wasn't. With Pubget, there is. With this one search, you can flip through the last 10 years' worth of Images in Clinical Medicine (assuming, of course, that you're at an institution that subscribes to the NEJM). Check it out---it's a absolute blast.

Publishers have made great leaps forward with how they display articles online. It's been especially nice to see how some folks, including PubMedCentral, give you thumbnails of images that you can click to enlarge. But for many of my peers in research and at the hospital, there's just no substitute for having figures there at full size---especially for Images in Clinical Medicine---especially when you're flipping through the paper for the first time. A lot of us read
papers by first flipping through the figures. Publishers do such a nice job on their print layouts that it's a shame to miss out on that experience, just because you want the speed associated with getting things online. That's why we've done what we've done at Pubget: so you can see the figures, as well as the paper, as fast as possible. Because a picture is worth a thousand words.

Get the Pubget Magic in Zotero

2011-05-06T15:46:00.003-04:00

Use Zotero? You can now open any saved citation in your Zotero library as a PDF via Pubget.

First, make sure you have downloaded the latest version of Zotero. You can get it here. To learn more about Zotero, click here to go to their instructions page.

Directions

To open citations from your Zotero library as PDFs via Pubget, follow these quick steps:

1. Click on the Zotero icon in the bottom right of your internet browser.

2. Select the locate arrow icon, then select Manage Lookup Engines.

3. The Article Lookup Engine Manager window will open. You will see that CrossRef is already setup as a default.

4. Select Toggle, to activate the Pubget Article Lookup (you will see a check mark appear next to Pubget Article Lookup). If you are using a PC, you will need to select OK.

You can close this window now: you're all set up.

From here on, you can easily open your Zotero citations as PDFs via Pubget.

1. Just highlight the citation you want in your Zotero library, then select the locate arrow icon.

2. Select Pubget Lookup from the drop-down menu, and the PDF will automatically open in Pubget.

What's Hot in Science

2011-05-03T15:49:00.003-04:00

This post includes the most popular papers in Pubget, right now! Our half-million scientists found these papers interesting and we hope you do, too! We will publish this list monthly. To receive it automatically via email, sign up here.

Top 15 Papers:

Click here to view all the papers in ranked order. You can also view each paper individually by clicking the title. You will need to set your institution to access the full text! Get a free account to set it automatically.

1. Common Variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4AE, EPHA1, CD33, and CD2AP Are Associated with Alzheimer's Disease
Paul Hollingworth, Denise Harold, Rebecca Sims, ... Julie Williams
We sought to identify new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer’s disease through a staged association study (GERAD+) and by testing suggestive loci reported by the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Consortium (ADGC) in a companion paper.
Nature Genetics 43:429-435 (2011)
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2. Large-scale Association Analysis Identifies 13 New Susceptibility Loci for Coronary Artery Disease
Heribert Schunkert et al.
We performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals.
Nature Genetics 43:333 (2011)
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3. Denosumab versus Zoledronic Acid for Treatment of Bone Metastases in Men with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Randomised, Double-Blind Study
Karim Fizazi, Michael Carducci, Matthew Smith, Ronaldo Damião, Janet Brown, Lawrence Karsh, Piotr Milecki, Neal Shore, Michael Rader, Huei Wang, Qi Jiang, Sylvia Tadros, Roger Dansey and Carsten Goessl
We compared denosumab, a human monoclonal antibody against RANKL, with zoledronic acid for prevention of skeletal-related events in men with bone metastases from castration-resistant prostate cancer.
LANCET 377(9768):813-822 (2011)

4. TTC21B Contributes Both Causal and Modifying Alleles Across the Ciliopathy Spectrum
Erica E Davis, Qi Zhang, Qin Liu, Bill H Diplas, ... Nicholas Katsanis
Here we show that mutations in TTC21B, which encodes the retrograde intraflagellar transport protein IFT139, cause both isolated nephronophthisis and syndromic Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy.
Nature Genetics 43:246 (2011)

5. Meta-analysis Identifies 29 Additional Ulcerative Colitis Risk Loci, Increasing the Number of Confirmed Associations to 47
Carl A Anderson, Gabrielle Boucher, Charlie W Lees, ... John D Rioux
We conducted a meta-analysis of six ulcerative colitis genomewide association study datasets, comprising 6,687 cases and 19,718 controls, and followed up the top association signals in 9,628 cases and 12,917 controls.
Nature Genetics 43:246 (2011)

6. The Immunogenicity and Impact on Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Fewer Doses of Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine Immunization Schedule
Martin O Ota, Adebayo Akinsola, John Townend, Martin Antonio, ... Akram Zaman
The immunogenicity and impact on carriage of fewer doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) followed by booster with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) were investigated. 684 infants were assigned randomly to one of the three groups that received one (A), two (B) or three (C) doses of PCV7 between 2 and 4 months of age, plus PPV at 10 months.
Vaccine 29(16):2999-3007 (2011)

7. Importance and Genetic Diversity of Vegetable-Infecting Tospoviruses in India
Suresh R Kunkalikar, Sudarsana Poojari, Bhanupriya M Arun, Prem A Rajagopalan, Tsung-Chi Chen, Shyi-Dong Yeh, Rayapati A Naidu, Usha B Zehr and Kankanallu S Ravi
A survey for Peanut bud necrosis virus (PBNV), Watermelon bud necrosis virus (WBNV), Capsicum chlorosis virus (CaCV), and Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) was conducted between 2002 and 2009 in the major vegetable-growing areas in India.
Phytopathology 101:367 (2011)

8. Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials
Jonathan N Coleman, Mustafa Lotya, Arlene O'Neill, ... Valeria Nicolosi
We show that layered compounds such as MoS(2), WS(2), MoSe(2), MoTe(2), TaSe(2), NbSe(2), NiTe(2), BN, and Bi(2)Te(3) can be efficiently dispersed in common solvents and can be deposited as individual flakes or formed into films.
Science 331(6017):568-71 (2011)
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9. Effects of a Restricted Elimination Diet on the Behavior of Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (INCA Study): A Randomised Controlled Trial
Lidy M Pelsser, Klaas Frankena, Jan Toorman, ... Jan K Buitelaar
We aimed to investigate whether there is a connection between diet and behaviour in an unselected group of children. The Impact of Nutrition on Children with ADHD (INCA) study was a randomised controlled trial that consisted of an open-label phase with masked measurements followed by a double-blind crossover phase.
LANCET 377:494 (2011)
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10. A New Device for Rapid Isolation By Size and Characterization of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells
Isabelle Desitter, Bella S Guerrouahen, Naoual Benali-Furet, ... Yvon E Cayre
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) likely derive from clones in the primary tumor, suggesting that they can be used for all biological tests applying to the primary cells.
Anticancer Research 31(2):427-41 (2011)
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11. Fidaxomicin versus Vancomycin for Clostridium Difficile Infection
Thomas J Louie, Mark A Miller, ... OPT-80-003 Clinical Study Group
We randomly assigned patients to receive fidaxomicin (200 mg twice daily) or vancomycin (125 mg four times daily) orally for 10 days.
New England Journal of Medicine 364:422 (2011)
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12. Single Mimivirus Particles Intercepted and Imaged with an X-Ray Laser
M Marvin Seibert, Tomas Ekeberg, Filipe R N C Maia, ... Janos Hajdu
We integrated an existing temporal transcriptional dataset for HM and CS cultures of rat hepatocytes with a functional interaction network of rat genes. We aimed to exploit the functional interactions to identify statistically significant linkages between perturbed biological processes.
Nature (London) 470:78 (2011)
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13. A Meta-Analysis of Self-Regulated Learning in Work-Related Training and Educational Attainment: What We Know and Where We Need To Go
Traci Sitzmann and Katherine Ely
This review examines the current state of research on self-regulated learning and gaps in the field's understanding of how adults regulate their learning of work-related knowledge and skills.
Psychological Bulletin 137(3):421-442 (2011)

14. Genetic History of an Archaic Hominin Group from Denisova Cave in Siberia
David Reich, Richard E Green, Martin Kircher, ... Svante Pääbo
We have sequenced the genome of an archaic hominin to about 1.9-fold coverage.
Nature (London) 468:1053 (2010)
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15. Treatment with Dexamethasone Down-Regulates IgE-Receptor-Mediated Signals in a Rat Mast Cell (RBL-2H3) Line
D Collado-Escobar, J R Cunha-Melo and M A Beaven
Here we show that high-quality diffraction data can be obtained with a single X-ray pulse from a noncrystalline biological sample, a single mimivirus particle, which was injected into the pulsed beam of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.
The Journal of Immunology 144:244 (1990)

the Singularity (and where Pubget fits in)

2011-04-20T18:02:00.001-04:00

Just a quick post this time, as we're busy around the office preparing some amazing new things that we'll be unveiling this summer.

Ray Kurzweil, who has two papers in Pubget, was in the news again about a month ago. He's the futurist author of books about the Singularity, the time when scientific progress happens faster than the human brain can keep up with it. At Pubget, which is all about science at speed, the Singularity comes up in conversation from time to time. But I realized I'd never actually sat down and read about it. Where's the idea come from? Should we believe it? And of course, in a humbler way, how does Pubget fit in?

So I picked up Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near." (Actually, I downloaded it on my iPhone. iBooks is my Angry Birds.) And here's what I learned. Take out a pen and paper and write down a list of breakthroughs in human invention and discovery. The wheel. Electricity. The internal combustion engine. Things like that. Then write down the earliest known date for each breakthrough. (This might require some trips to Wikipedia.) What you'll notice, says Kurzweil, is things are happening faster: breakthroughs are happening more and more closely together. In fact, if you plot each breakthrough on a graph, where the axes are when it happened and the time since the last breakthrough, you'll find that breakthroughs fall on a curve. (It's a little like Moore's Law.) And if you trace that curve forward into the not-too-distant future, it says breakthroughs as important as the wheel will start happening every minute, then every second, then---for all intents and purposes--- instantaneously. You can think of the time when that starts happening as the Singularity.

It's a pretty far-out idea, and it raises some questions. How good is the data on the timing of these breakthroughs? What constitutes a breakthrough, anyway? Isn't there an inherent recall bias, where you're more likely to remember things that happened more recently, making it look like things are happening faster when actually they aren't? And even if they are, can a trend like this really go on forever? I won't give anything away, but the book deals with a lot of these questions. At the end of the day, one thing's for sure: if breakthroughs are indeed happening faster and faster, it's not under the direction of any one person or group. It's the result of billions of people doing what they've been doing since time immemorial: solving problems, making things better, faster. It's only when you step back to consider the whole sweep of history that it fits a pattern. Here at Pubget, we're just trying to make science faster for you. The next paper you read, the next one you write, know that you are part of the same grand tradition of moving things forward---if Kurzweil's right, faster than ever before.

Pubget speaking at Buying and Selling eContent Conference

2011-03-28T17:22:00.003-04:00

At Pubget, we know how important scientific literature is. We even refer to it as the currency of the scientific community. Further, we like to think of ourselves as being ahead of the curve when it comes to changes in how scientific literature is accessed. If you're an avid Pubget user, you know that goal is to make it easier to find and access scientific literature (that you have legal access to, of course). Apparently, we're not the only ones who think we're trendsetters.

Pubget President, Ryan Jones, has been asked to speak on a panel, alongside Reprints Desk, at the Buying and Selling eContent conference in Scottsdale, AZ this year. If you're at the conference, stop by for what is sure to be an exciting discussion. If you're not, stay tuned for an update from the talk.

Executive Forum — Models & Modalities

Accessing and Pricing the Scientific Literature

Ryan Jones, President, Pubget
Scott Ahlberg, Head of Corporate Services, Reprints Desk

Access, acquisition, and utilization of published scientific articles is a key activity in R&D, customer support, educational awareness, and promotion of pharmaceutical and healthcare products. Most companies spend well over $1M per year in accessing this type of peer-reviewed content. Ryan Jones of Pubget discusses the varying dynamics of different access models to content, with observations from the cutting edge of content access. Scott Ahlberg of Reprints Desk shares his analysis of article and content pricing, from traditional subscription to document delivery, and reuse licensing options. The presentation concludes with a look at traditional pricing theories and explores how they apply to article pricing and how they differ — all of which ultimately impacts content consumption.

Pier Professional Partners with Pubget to Enhance Article Discoverability

2011-03-15T15:13:00.010-04:00

Cambridge, MA, March 8, 2011- Pier Professional announced today that its 15 year journal article archive is now fully searchable with Pubget.

Pubget makes scientific research easier by simplifying the process of finding, managing and analyzing scientific papers. Pubget’s core solution, at Pubget.com, provides article-level tools making content discovery, access and copyright management much easier for the user. As a standalone article destination, Pubget delivers millions of PDF articles from thousands of publishers in one interface.

"We're constantly looking for new search channels that will allow us to get our content directly into the hands of global users," said Paul Somerville, Pier Professional’s Marketing and Business Development Manager. "Pubget is an innovative and growing search service that enables academics, students and other users to get to our content seamlessly.”

“Pubget’s mission is to make finding articles faster and easier for researchers everywhere. We’re tremendously excited to add Pier Professional’s journal content to our search service at Pubget.com,” said Ryan Jones, Pubget’s President. “With the addition of Pier Professional’s 23 titles, Pubget’s users will enjoy expanded searchable content, and Pier Professional will gain the exposure to the millions of searches Pubget processes each month."

The main benefit of this service enables subscribing institutions to get direct access to Pier Professional’s full-text articles with Pubget— eliminating many of the hurdles typical of research today. For other non-subscribing institutions, users are directed to purchase PDF articles via Reprints Desk (reprintsdesk.com) or directly from the Pier Professional website.

“We hope that by increasing discoverability and ease of use for users to get to our content, will lead to more increased usage and engagement with existing and new, global customers,” said Paul Somerville.

Want to see how Pubget works? Click on the following link to watch Pubget's demo: http://goo.gl/zj6Iv

About Pier Professional:
Pier Professional (previously known as Pavilion Journals) has over 20 years of publishing experience and working in partnership with leading experts in health and social care and academia across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Pier Professional strives to disseminate innovation and best practice across the health and social care field. There are currently huge changes taking place in the field; integrated working, individualised care, quality, the ageing population to name but a few. Pier Professional aims to ensure that the information that it publishes can assist in the learning and development needed at this crucial time of change in both health and social care.

Each journal uniquely bridges the gap between research and practice, creating an arena where researchers, practitioners, academics, professionals and service users can exchange current ideas and learn from evidence-based material. All journals particularly focus on disseminating good practice and highlight clear implications for practice. The journals are edited by leading experts in their field, supported by its publishing team and prestigious editorial boards comprising researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, users and carers.

Pier Professional publishes in association with a range of prominent academic, research, policy and practice partners.

About Pubget:
Pubget makes scientific research easier by simplifying the process of finding, managing and analyzing scientific papers. Pubget’s core solution, at Pubget.com, provides article-level tools making content discovery, access and copyright management much easier for the user. Pubget’s corporate services offer relevant banner and contextual advertisement for marketers and search tools for libraries and R&D departments, including repository and text mining platforms.

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Research through time: Standing on the shoulders of giants

2011-03-07T17:27:00.006-05:00

A colleague and I were discussing medical statistics at the hospital
the other day. A question had come up about reference intervals, the
“magic numbers” for each laboratory test that define when values are
too high or too low. Actually, the reference interval---or “reference
range” or “normal range”---isn’t magic at all. It’s just the range
that the middle 95% of healthy people fall into; the thick part of a
bell-curve. The question that came up was how you can be sure about
the upper and lower ends of the range, when the ends are where the
bell-curve is thinnest, and therefore when you have the least data to
go by.

This might sound technical, but it’s questions like this that send
tens of thousands of people to Pubget every day. My colleague and I
were no exception.

Despite the medical progress of the past few decades, my colleague
said, the best approach to reference intervals was still in Hoffmann’s
old JAMA paper. I suggested we find it on Pubget. “It’s really old,”
he said, but agreed to give it a try. I typed “Statistics Hoffmann
JAMA” and sure enough, there it was: “Statistics in the Practice of
Medicine,” Journal of the American Medicine Association, 1963, the
first result.

My colleague was impressed. We skimmed the paper, its excellent
figures and answered our question. But the episode got me thinking:
how far back does Pubget go?

It’s fun to use Pubget to find the original papers referenced in the
“100 years ago” features from Nature and Science (assuming you’re
somewhere that subscribes to them), so I knew it went back to at least
1900. Therefore I started in the 19th century. This is what I found.

My first search was for “year:1861”, the year my alma mater, MIT, was
founded. It was also the year the American Civil War started, and so I
was interested to find a paper excerpting a book by a fellow New
Englander on the economy of the South (“Mr. Olmsted’s Account of the
Present Condition of the Slave Regions of the United States,” Journal
of the Statistical Society of London 24(4): 523-527 (1861)). A
clear-eyed, scathing report of that “peculiar institution.”

Going back further, a search for “year:1800” yielded the earliest
academic paper I’ve read on diabetes (“On the Non-Existence of Sugar
in the Blood of Persons Labouring under Diabetes Mellitus,” Abstracts
of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London ():391-392 (1800)). Diabetes has been known since
ancient times, but we rarely read anything but the latest papers. This
old paper described a technique for detecting excess sugar in blood
serum. As we continue to battle diabetes today, it’s thrilling to
imagine those days, and think about how far we’ve come.

It turned out the oldest papers I found were for “year:1693”---all
from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Here were papers from Halley (of Halley’s Comet), Boyle (of Boyle’s
Law), and Leeuwenhoek (who discovered the world of microorganisms
that, in the hospital, my team tries to keep from making people sick).
Phil Trans is the oldest still-publishing academic journal. As such it
reminds us of the continuity of science across time and national
borders.

It’s reassuring to know old papers like Hoffman's---and very old
papers---are there on Pubget when you need them (Kudos to JStor for
digitizing so many of them). But it’s also inspirational to dip back
into what we’ve done from time to time, to inspire us to do as Newton
said, and stand on the shoulders of giants.

Musings from the CEO: Why fast search is my mission

2011-02-18T10:54:00.003-05:00

Think your research group could get a lot done in a couple of centuries? I realize that this sounds like a ridiculous question, but that's what Pubget wants to give the world, each year. How so? We know that Pubget saves researchers time. In the short term, it gets you your papers faster. Instead of clicking from one screen to another, we get you the PDF right away. But what's the effect in the aggregate? There are 10 million researchers in the life sciences alone. Every year, they spend enough extra time clicking around to get PDFs, that Pubget could save them about half a billion minutes. That's a fair-sized research group working full time since Newton. (We actually did a study a little while ago to support these numbers.)

But what does that mean? A recent paper I was reading in Science Translational Medicine got me thinking. The paper is about building a national learning health system. This means that whenever anyone makes a discovery about better ways to take care of patients, an electronic system would spread the word to everybody, instantly. When you consider that even with the advent of Google Instant, Google claimed that they could theoretically save 3.5 billion seconds a day (compared to the traditional search engine process), the concept of instant scientific information communication feels even more necessary. That kind of information dissemination is right up Pubget’s alley. So---how are we doing? Well, another way of looking at what we can do is that it represents an efficiency improvement of a couple percent over what people do now. That is, for the 10 million life scientists in the world, if everyone were using Pubget, that would be the equivalent of adding tens to hundreds of thousands more to the effective population.

That’s something. A few percent is a spectacular efficiency improvement for an economy. But a few percent is not instant everything to everyone. Still, when you look at the big picture, it’s exciting. The folks at Microsoft did a study that showed the time it takes to spread new findings is decreasing exponentially. The few percent we add today fits a trend that will bring us instant everything in 5-10 years. Just imagine what we'll do tomorrow.

Bridging the Google Gap, with an App

2011-01-27T10:16:00.003-05:00

Pubget President, Ryan Jones, recently authored an entry for the SLA Future Ready Blog's (very ambitious) program to host a new guest author each day. What's Pubget's place in the movement to end content fragmentation and streamline how information and users connect? (Ok, if you're an avid Pubget user, you might know the answer to that already.) Read on to find out, or click here.

Bridging the Google Gap, with an App

Researchers are turning to free search engines over licensed databases because of familiarity, simplicity and access to free content. By starting there, though, they face a fragmented experience across free and paid resources that’s fraught with dead ends, different formats and broken user interfaces. They also may pass up a perfect resource because it doesn’t crop up on the first page of the many results on Google. These shortcomings make up the Google Gap.

The Google Gap (or PubMed Gap or Science Direct Gap, etc) has been well explored by the library community. Technologies like link resolvers and federated search have cropped up to bridge the gap—with limited success. Link resolvers often mean errors in holdings (subscription collections), confusing resource choices and more dead ends. Meanwhile, federated search solutions connect resources at too high a level to provide a satisfactory experience and ignore holdings, the quality of metadata and the format, and usability of content.

So if link resolvers and federated search won’t do, what can bridge the gap between closed and web-based data? The “what” has to be something with enough computing power to provide a simple experience, yet span the web, free and paid content. It has to be something with a high understanding of all the content types that sit at the end of each search task. The answer, it turns out is not a website or database at all.

It’s an app.

Apps, as you’ve come to experience them on your phone or desktop, host more purpose-built code and processing power than traditional websites (as Chris Anderson wrote in this excellent piece in Wired ). Apps can provide enough intelligence to overcome content fragmentation among the user, the web, and library resources to deliver the simple yet powerful experience users ask for. They connect content destinations in highly customized ways, with intelligence, and can thereby standardize user experience across disparate resources. Apps can perform tasks in the background, fetching resources or content in anticipation of users’ needs. Apps can present a familiar and simple interface to the user.

This extra intelligence benefits the library, too. Apps can provide comprehensive data from both users and platforms, which in turn means better content management and more efficient libraries.

At Pubget, we think more intelligence is needed in the way users, the web, and resources are connected. As Chris Anderson says, “The World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.” At Pubget, we think there’s an app for that.

PaperStats available through Reprints Desk

2011-01-18T11:43:00.004-05:00

Have you heard about PaperStats, our content spend analysis tool? It's the only tool on the market which provides cost per view level analysis and increases the accuracy of a library's holdings, saving librarians time and optimizing budget. And now, we've partnered with Reprints Desk to distribute PaperStats to enterprise clients.

Santa Monica, Calif., January 14, 2010– Reprints Desk, Inc. today announced that it has signed a direct agreement with the Pubget, Inc. to serve as the exclusive corporate distributor for Pubget’s PaperStats product. PaperStats is the content spend analytics tool that saves organizations time and money by automating the aggregation, updating, and analysis of journal holdings and content data. Corporate information centers can now analyze usage and spending across subscriptions and document delivery for better collection management decision-making in support of scientific research.

“Reprints Desk is pleased to introduce PaperStats to corporations worldwide and deliver yet another simple solution to a complex and costly information industry challenge,” said Scott Ahlberg, Head of Corporate Services at Reprints Desk. “Usage-based bibliometric analysis is becoming an important part of purchasing decisions.”

Pubget has deployed PaperStats at dozens of organizations worldwide, including University of Southern California (USC) and in libraries at several of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies. PaperStats features include:

COUNTER-compliant usage reporting across multiple content sources, including data integration from document delivery suppliers such as Reprints Desk
On-demand cost statistics and spend management recommendations
Ability to manage publisher admin logins and journal pricing information via an easy-to-use interface

Reprints Desk, ranked number one overall and in every category in the 2008 Document Delivery Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard by analyst and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., is a pioneer of solutions for scientific literature re-use. Pubget, an AlwaysOn East Top 100 award winner, provides full-text search solutions, repositories, text mining, and a full set of APIs for including research on websites or in your enterprise’s applications.

For more information about Reprints Desk and PaperStats for corporations, please visit www.reprintsdesk.com. For more information about Pubget and PaperStats for academic institutions and government agencies, visit http://corporate.pubget.com/.

About Reprints Desk

Reprints Desk, Inc. helps companies to obtain and use scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature in compliance with copyright and Good Promotional Practices. Services are designed to save time and money, and improve workflows for professionals in information management, research, regulatory affairs, legal, medical affairs, education, sales and marketing. For more information, visit us online at www.reprintsdesk.com.

About Pubget

Pubget is a search platform for life science PDFs. Pubget’s core product, at pubget.com, solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search results linking to papers, the search results ARE the papers. Once you find the papers you want, you can save, manage and share them—all online. For more info, visit us at http://corporate.pubget.com/.

300!

2011-01-06T12:01:00.004-05:00

Hi there, Pubgetters! Here's a sneak peak at our new big announcement. Pubget is growing, thanks to your help!

January 6, 2010- Cambridge, MA
Pubget Inc., the search engine for life science PDFs, announced today the activation of its 300th institution. This milestone represents a substantial expansion of the service since its launch at Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital two years ago.

Activation is the proprietary process that allows Pubget to synchronize with the holdings and authentication system of the institutional library, and is free for universities and non-profit institutions. Once activated, users get instantaneous delivery of over 25 million articles through Pubget.com. "We received an enormous amount of requests in 2010 for institution activations, adding over 100 new institutions this year," said Dr. Ramy Arnaout, founder of Pubget. "Our goal is to accelerate science, and we're realizing that goal as more institutions use our service to streamline today's fragmented research process."

In addition to institution growth, the volume of researchers searching for papers across these institutions is growing. Pubget now serves over 20,000 researchers each day from these institutions, enterprises and elsewhere. "Researchers who search for papers on Pubget.com are in good company. Pubget is part of the daily lives of researchers at some of the more prestigious academic institutions in the world," said Arnaout. Within these 300 are 24 of the top 25 NIH Grant Recipient Institutions, as well as 23 of the top 25 US News and World Report Universities.

Not sure if your institution is active?
Go to www.pubget.com and check where is says "use my library subscriptions." Start typing in the name of your institution. If you see it there, you are already active. If your institution is not active, please request activation.

Not active on Pubget?
Email team@pubget.com to start the process. We'll need to know who you are and what institution you want to activate. Until then, you can search open access content, by typing "access:open" followed by your search terms.

What a year (and we're not done yet)!

2010-12-03T17:02:00.008-05:00

2010 was a big year for Pubget. We're at almost 300 institutions and there are about 20,000 researchers who use Pubget daily! That's a lot of PDFs retrieved this year!

Meanwhile, the average person spends over 10 minutes per visit and views almost 4 pages per visit.

So what do people think about Pubget? Here's what researchers have recently told us:
88% of researchers who have tried Pubget are very satisfied!
68% of researchers who have tried us, visit Pubget.com at least once a week!
87% would or have recommended Pubget to a peer... Have you?

That's pretty darn satisfying. And it all adds up to science getting done faster, discoveries sooner and cures earlier. Of course, in the background, we have a nicely growing enterprise business and library services business too, which you can learn about here.
What a year, thanks for your support!

Search at Speed with Limits and Thesaurus!

2010-10-08T15:23:00.007-04:00

Announcing two new search tools at Pubget to help you find exactly the papers you're looking for.

1) Drill down with our new limits feature: With the limits panel you can now filter by year, language, and the other PubMed supported limits.

2) Get every result with our new thesaurus: Pubget's thesaurus now automatically expands your query. We've now added a thesaurus of over 20,000 terms, including drug names. If you'd like to see how we expand each query, select "Search details" under the "Tools" drop down.

Pubget and Copyright Clearance Center Bring Copyright Licensing to the Pubget Platform

2010-09-30T11:07:00.000-04:00

September 30, 2010 – Cambridge, MA Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing experts, and Pubget, the search engine for life science PDFs, today launched a new “Get Permissions” feature across Pubget.com article pages. The addition of this feature, powered by CCC’s Rightslink® Permissions Direct technology, makes one click access to copyright licenses possible from the Pubget research platform and extends Pubget’s copyright-compliance efforts.

“Pubget’s primary mission is to make access to copyright-compliant content easier for scientific researchers,” notes Ryan Jones, President of Pubget. “We’re pleased to add“Get Permissions” links because they extend the value of each individual article to our users as well as to the article publishers.”

“Our integration with Pubget is exciting because it simplifies copyright compliance by embedding copyright permissions into the daily content discovery workflow of researchers,” said Diane Pierson, VP of Marketing at Copyright Clearance Center, “Pubget is simplifying the process of copyright by putting this new feature in the hands of the hundreds of thousands of scientists that use the site each month.”

While the “Get Permission” links on Pubget appear simple, they have far reaching benefits. Specifically, while reading, citing, or bookmarking articles from Pubget’s 25-million article collection, users are now one click away from the Copyright Clearance Center for obtaining permissions pertaining to that specific article. Permissions can be priced and purchased for any use, from republication to classroom handouts and are granted by the copyright holder.

Pubget delivers millions of PDF articles from thousands of publishers in one interface. As a standalone article destination, Pubget is creating an ecosystem of article-level tools around these PDFs making content discovery, access and copyright management much easier for the user than traversing multiple platforms. The “Get Permission” link advances this mission by incorporating another workflow tool into the Pubget.com environment.

About Copyright Clearance Center:
Representing copyright holders from nearly every country in the world, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a global rights broker for millions of the world’s most sought after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, images, blogs and ebooks. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, today CCC promotes the seamless sharing of knowledge by creating innovative licensing solutions that let academic institutions, businesses, and individuals quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials while compensating authors, publishers, and other content creators for the use of their works. For more information, visit www.copyright.com.

Pubget Mobile: One click PDFs from any publisher

2010-09-08T15:37:00.000-04:00

We're pleased to announce the new Pubget Mobile! No other mobile application gets you to the full text of research faster. It's a big leap forward.

Why? The one-click interface, institutional sign-on and the standardized format of the PDF make Pubget Mobile different than other research apps. They let you navigate across full text publisher content with fewer clicks, and no surprises when it comes UI.

Ready to try it out? Point your PDF-capable device to pubget.com/mobile. Now you can get PDFs while sitting in group meeting, or read this week's Nature from the airport. Like with Pubget.com, you'll be asked to sign into your institution to get the full text. Select yours from the drop-down to get going. Happy searching!

NISO Serials Webinars Sponsored by Pubget

2010-09-01T10:50:00.007-04:00

We're kicking off a two-part NISO Webinar series entitled "Measuring Use, Assessing Success," sponsored by Pubget. Are you a librarian? We'd love you to attend.

These webinars will give you the full story on how serials usage statistics impact your library. You also can get a view into how our PaperStats product helps expose more data on journal usage.

So, on September 8 and 15 at 1pm, join Pubget and NISO to discuss the challenges and solutions surrounding statistics:

Part 1: Measure, Assess, Improve, Repeat: Using Library Performance Metrics
Date: Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Speakers:
-- Steve Hiller, Director, Assessment and Planning, University of Washington Libraries
-- Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director, Statistics and Service Quality Programs, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

Part 2: Count Me In: Measuring Individual Item Usage
Date: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Speakers:
-- Peter Shepherd, Project Director, Project COUNTER
-- Johan Bollen, Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

REGISTER HERE

SEM in life science marketing with Pubget, a recap

2010-08-26T14:29:00.008-04:00

Earlier in the summer we had an awesome turnout for our webinar, and I'm just now getting to post the contents here.

What inspired the webinar? According to Forrester, search engine marketing budgets will double over the next five years. We've been hearing from customers that the life science market is no exception to this trend. So we put what we know about life science SEM into a webinar, and had a great dialog with a solid group of life science marketers. If you missed it, check out the deck below.

Pubget SEM Webinar

PaperPlane Now Departs from More Sites

2010-07-29T07:34:00.001-04:00

PaperPlane, which previously only worked on PubMed, now delivers life science papers from these sites too:
-ACS
-Informaworld
-LWW
-Science Direct
-PLoS

Check out in this video how PaperPlane skips broken links at publisher sites and gets you the PDF, right away.

Pubget, Inc. Selected as an AlwaysOn East Top 100 Winner

2010-06-21T13:40:00.004-04:00

Pubget, the search engine for life-science PDFs, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn East Top 100 winners. The company was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

"After examining the companies that are on the AOE100 list, it's obvious that innovation is not only alive and well on the East Coast, it's accelerating in economic power and scope," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace."

“We’re delighted to be part of the AOE100 list this year,” says Ryan Jones, Pubget’s President. “Pubget’s technology platform is focused on improving access to research content for over ten million scientists and doctors worldwide. AlwaysOn's recognition comes at a time of particularly fast growth for us, as that platform is rolled out to some of the biggest names in academic and commercial life-science research.”

Pubget and the AlwaysOn East Top 100 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s Venture Summit East event on June 21st, 2010, at Harvard Business School in Boston, MCA. A full list of all the AlwaysOn East Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website

Pugbet at SSP - Driving Subscription Content Usage

2010-06-14T09:03:00.002-04:00

Pubget just returned from speaking at the 2010 SSP annual meeting in San Francisco. We and our fellow panelists (Keith Wollman from Cell Press and Jim King from the American Chemical Society) had a good run at answering the panel's posed question: How can publishers maximize the value and reach of their content using new technologies?

We used the opportunity to release the results of a content usage study we did with the cooperation of the University of Southern California. The results? Pubget saves users time relative to other workflow tools, and these time savings let them get more value out of journal subscriptions.

Here's how we know: Pubget tracked consumption of full text PDFs through its platform over 60 days. Then we tracked USC's overall consumption of full text PDFs from any workflow tool. Pubget delivered full text content for 71% of requests, but other access methods delivered PDFs for only 40% of requests. This means that Pubget exposes almost twice the amount of subscription full text content as compared with other tools.

Does Pubget maximize the value of content using new technology? We think so.

Pubget Launches PaperStats Beta: A New Library Tool for Understanding Journal Usage and Cost

2010-05-24T08:18:00.002-04:00

Pubget is pleased to announce the launch of Pubget PaperStats(tm) Beta, the first journal analytics product based on the Pubget platform.

“For the past two years Pubget has worked to make content access easier for researchers,” notes Ian Connor, Pubget CTO. “With PaperStats, we’re now making content management and tracking easier for the libraries that serve them.”

PaperStats manages libraries’ admin logins and journal pricing information via an easy-to-use interface. It instantly yields clean usage data and cost statistics across any date range, source and content type—whether users access journal content through Pubget.com or not.

By providing additional data visibility, PaperStats will revolutionize how libraries make subscription reporting and renewal decisions. This is because, with PaperStats, publisher-sourced results are supplemented with sampled usage data via Pubget.com—providing a direct picture of researcher intention, from search queries all the way through to content acquisition.

Ian Connor continues: “This is a different approach to content analytics. Other platforms rely on manual librarian management, vendor services teams or only provide part of the picture. PaperStats takes all the manual work out of this process and provides full content consumption visibility from the search query all the way through to the COUNTER-compliant result.”

Pubget will be demoing PaperStats Beta at the MLA Conference. For more information, email us at info@pubget.com

Pubget Announces PaperStore Powered by ReprintsDesk

2010-04-20T18:11:00.001-04:00

Pubget today launched the Pubget PaperStore, powered by Reprints Desk. The addition of the PaperStore makes Pubget one of the fastest sites for publisher-wide article discovery, access and a la cart article procurement, bringing a new level of efficiency to researchers worldwide.

The Pubget PaperStore offers access to nearly 20 million titles from all major publishers in the science, technology and medicine (STM) disciplines. The service relies on Reprint Desk’s trusted publisher relationships and top-rated service for delivering content in a copyright-compliant manner. “Choosing Reprints Desk to power our single article procurement was an easy decision,” says Ryan Jones, President of Pubget. “Reprints Desk was ranked first out of ten vendors in a 2008 Outsell document delivery scorecard, and the team aligns with our vision for the future of science.”

“For researchers and information managers, this combined workflow tool will deliver substantial time savings across the research lifecycle: from search to discovery to procurement,” says Ian Palmer, Head of Marketing at Reprints Desk. “We quickly recognized the value of putting our document delivery service in front of the hundreds of thousands life science researchers that rely on Pubget’s search platform.”

While the PaperStore is open to anyone, users of Pubget from activated institutions will realize the most value. These Pubget users will receive the PDF via free Open Access article when available, through their library’s subscriptions when a subscription exists, and now, through the opportunity to order a single article for immediate delivery via e-mail. This collapsing of multiple tasks and content destinations into a single search makes Pubget the most comprehensive tool on the web for searching and obtaining academic literature at the article level.

Introducing the Newest Release of Pubget

2010-03-22T09:27:00.006-04:00

Introducing the newest release of Pubget: Faster, slicker, with a resizable results panel, fullscreen PDF viewing, and more flexible PDF tools. Check it out here.

You asked, we delivered.
We've heard a lot from you (thanks!) about things we can do to make Pubget even better. We think this release gets us closer. Do you have suggestions for the next version? Join our Institution Advisory Board and tell us how to make things better for you.

Small screen? Introducing fullscreen.
Lots of you are stuck with itty-bitty screens at work, which makes reading PDFs a pain. On any result, just click "Fullscreen," get the PDF right away, and get it big.

Faster speed.
In some cases we've cut our search response time by 4x!

Easy on the eyes.
Not only have we cleaned up just about everything, we've also made it easier for you to read search results. There's bigger type all around, and the new slidebar makes the results drawer as wide or narrow as you please.

Advancing search.
Now get to advanced search on the homepage and elsewhere with an easy dropdown. Article-level tools and a new abstract view are just a click away, too.

Download as you please.
With the new checkboxes next to results, just check the results you want. You can then bookmark them for review later, or click "Tools>Download citation(s)" to download just those citations to your favorite citation manager. As before, Firefox users can download multiple PDFs via the checkboxes and our Firefox plugin.

Still PDFs fast---only now even faster.
Despite the changes, it's still the same Pubget you've come to love. Complete with latest issues hot off the presses, RSS search feeds, and the Pubget PaperPLane-- all now available to over 220 institutions around the world.

Enjoy! If you have feedback, drop us a line at team AT pubget.com.

Pubget on CiteULike

2010-03-11T13:28:00.003-05:00

Pubget is excited to announce links on CiteULike. Now, anytime a life science paper is mentioned on a CiteULike page, you can click the Pubget link and get right to the PDF. (If the PDF is free, you'll get it instantly. If it requires a subscription, you can get it if Pubget and that subscription are available through your library. Pubget is now deployed at over 200 institutions.)

Check out a couple samples here and here.

New to CiteULike? CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser so there's no need to install any software. Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection.

Pubget Starts Development of Publisher Analytics Tools

2010-03-10T13:19:00.002-05:00

Today Pubget finalized its development roadmap for the rest of 2010. We have a ton of exciting things in store to help you get papers faster than ever.

Most of this is stuff we can't talk about yet, but we couldn't help letting the first one out of the bag: We're launching a new suite of tools aimed at getting publishers better data on content usage at Pubget and at Pubget partner institutions.

Why now? Since Pubget passed the mark of 200 partner institutions last month, we've been able to start compiling meaningful data about how papers get searched for and viewed, and to start building insightful analytics tools for making sense of this wealth of data.

As always, our top priority is safeguarding the privacy of the hundred-thousand-plus researchers who get and read papers through us. But just as our aggregate and anonymized data on searching and traffic patterns helps us serve them better, and in the same way as our librarian tools are helping our librarian partners understand their patrons, our new publisher tools will help publishers figure out how best to address growing areas of interest in science and medicine. What this means in the end is more papers people want to read, which means faster and better science.

We'll be developing our publisher analytics tools from the ground up, with feedback from the publishing industry. If you're a publisher, look to hear from our analytics team in the coming months, or feel free to contact us directly at team@pubget.com.

PLoS Launches Fast PDF Access with Pubget

2010-03-02T08:26:00.000-05:00

Today PLoS released Pubget links across its journal sites. Now, when you browse thousands of reference citations on PLoS journals, you can get to the full text article faster than ever before.

Specifically, Pubget PDF links have been added to every free citation in PLoS covered by CrossRef. These are accessed via the 'CrossRef' link in the 'Cited in' section of any article's Metrics tab - see here for an example. Clicking on the PDF icon will take you directly to the PDF.

Pubget is delighted to partner with PLoS in order to drive article-level, full text access. On launching this new functionality, Pete Binfield, Publisher of PLoS ONE and the Community Journals said: "Any service, like Pubget, that makes it easier for authors to quickly find the information they need is a welcome addition to our articles. We like how Pubget helps to break down content walls in science, letting users get instantly to the article-level detail that they seek."

We hope you find Pubget's expanded presence on the web useful!

200!

2010-02-23T08:30:00.003-05:00

Pubget just added its 200th institution to its network. Congrats Maddy and Matt for awesome progress over the last quarter!

Is your school, hospital or workplace on the list? Check it out on our homepage.

Fail Whales... to WIN. Fighting Growing Pains at Pubget

2010-02-11T18:45:00.008-05:00

This post is a bit inspired by a very good Twitter Engineering Blog post by Ed Ceaser and Nick Kallen called Anatomy of a Whale.

We had a stressful week here at Pubget because of our own fail whales. The size of our content index (now over 25 million documents) and our traffic volume (it's a secret, but it's plenty) added together to seriously degrade our search performance. The degradation came upon us pretty suddenly, and if you've been experiencing slow searches, well, this is why.

We considered throwing more hardware at the problem just like Ed and Nick did in the above post, but instead, Ian buckled down to solve the problem with code.

Ian and team fixed it late last night. Here's a chart showing the improvement in query time over the last 24 hours. Congrats guys!

Embeddable Research via the Pubget API

2010-02-04T13:07:00.009-05:00

We just launched our API here at Pubget! The API allows researchers to access their full-text journal subscriptions anywhere on the web. Click here to see more on the Pubget API.

The API works inside other sites to deliver papers to you in three different ways:
1) Pubget Widgetizer: Enter a search query into the box, and get a widget that delivers fresh results from this search right in your blog or lab site.
2) Citation Links: Link from any citation on the web to the full text document on Pubget. This is what we're providing to our friends over at researchblogging.org
3) Embedded Content: Embed the PDF of any citation into your own website. Open access papers are delivered instantly in your site, plus if your readers are at a Pubget institution, they get closed access PDFs right away, too. Here's what it looks like at biosciencetechnology.com:

Sound like something you'd want on your site? Learn more about the Pubget API here.

Pubget and Agilent Technologies Formally Launch Advanced Materials and Methods Advertising Platform

2010-01-28T10:58:00.002-05:00

We're very pleased to formally announce our relationship with Agilent!

Cambridge, MA January 28, 2010 – Pubget, the search engine for journal PDFs, today announced the most advanced contextual ad platform in life science. Pubget’s ServiceAds highlight brands that appear in the materials and methods section of research papers, capturing scientists’ attention at the instant they plan new research. Agilent Technologies supported development of the platform and is the system’s first advertiser. Agilent is joined by other innovative advertisers, including two to-be-named reagent vendors and research conference organizer Keystone Symposia.

The ad platform improves traditional advertising for the unique characteristics of life science and medicine. Using Pubget’s cloud-based search infrastructure, the platform displays contextually-matched ads alongside the brands and protocols mentioned in research papers.

For scientists and doctors, the high degree of contextual relevancy results in ads that blur the line between promotion and service. “We spent a lot of time thinking about scientist workflow when we built the platform,” said Ramy Arnaout, Pubget’s Chairman and CEO. “Although ads deliver material value to sponsors, they fit quite well with the typical research process where users want to learn more about the materials used in published results.”

Because of the contextual relevancy and fit with researcher workflow, ServiceAds introduce a new level of value for brands. ServiceAds deliver thousands of impressions per day at the point of lab or prescriptive purchase decisions. “In Pubget’s platform, Agilent saw the opportunity to communicate with lab decision makers at the instant they are planning ground-breaking research—while they’re reading papers,” says Carolyn Reifsnyder, eContent & Solutions Manager of Life Science and Chemical Analysis Marketing for Agilent.

About Pubget:
Pubget is a search platform for life science PDFs. Pubget’s core product, at pubget.com, solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search results linking to papers, the search results are the papers. Once you find the papers you want, you can save, manage and share them—all online. For more info email team@pubget.com.

About Agilent Technologies:
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 17,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

Mendeley and Risk

2010-01-13T10:43:00.005-05:00

Pubget built a paper access model that is respectful of copyright. We've been growing nicely under this model.

We're now watching as Mendeley responds to requests from users who want to upload and share more and more copyrighted papers by expanding their paper-sharing features. I'm sure this will spur growth, and I commend those guys for their risk tolerance.

BUT will this brave move prevent them from advancing relationships with publishers? We say "probably." David Crotty over at the Scholarly Kitchen has a view. What's your take?

Web-based Workflow Tools and Publishing, A Panel Hosted by Pubget

2010-01-06T13:06:00.007-05:00

At the end of last year, Pubget was joined by Marcus Banks of UCSF, Pete Binfield of PLoS, and Ansuman Chattopadhyay of Pitt to discuss trends in STM pubishing search and workflow tools.

The panel explored how members of the publishing ecosystem (publishers, librarians, workflow-tool-providers and end-users) approach the recent explosion of STM content. Oh and for more on the explosion of content, check out this paper.

We were lucky to enjoy extremely positive feedback from our audience, who ranged from library staff to publishers and end users. Plus we've received a ton of requests to publish the recording of the session. Click on the image below to view.

More Pubget PaperPlane

2009-12-19T14:56:00.004-05:00

After two months of availability, Pubget PaperPlane is now the most often used feature on Pubget, behind search. Very cool and congrats to Mike, our product manager, on a great product.

PaperPlane is a bookmarklet that can scan nearly any web page for a citation, and bring you the PDF of that citation on Pubget. (Disclaimer: This is provided that you have subscription access to that paper. PaperPlane works best on PubMed, Wiley, and ScienceDirect sites, but works many other places too!). Check out the movie for more on how it works and how to install it.

Two Photos

2009-11-20T17:05:00.006-05:00

A chunk of Pubget's engineering team is enjoying sunny Brisbane AUS as part of our 100k scientist ship party. Nice!

We business types are still keeping the lights on here at Pubget headquarters. Hey, at least we get sunset over Gen-pfizer-idec-zyme...

Noble Prize and Pubget

2009-11-09T11:54:00.003-05:00

Pubget is pleased to announce it is now serving the doctors and researchers of the Karolinska Institutet. Accordingly, the folks that award the Nobel Prize in Pyschology or Medicine can now use literature through Pubget to make sure they make a suitably informed choice ;)

DeepDyve - Charging $0.99 for Free Content?

2009-10-27T13:00:00.007-04:00

Today DeepDyve launched its literature search and rental platform. It's a neat product for those without subscription access. Readers can search millions of papers, then rent access to select titles.

Interestingly, it seems like a lot of DeepDyve's content is free, yet it charges for access to some of it. Take for example an article from the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, entitled: "The 2006 Dolph Adams Award and the State of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology"

You can read it on DeepDyve for $0.99.

Of course, since it's free, you can read it on Pubget for free here or check out some of our other 3 million free papers - the most on the web.

Pubget PaperPlane

2009-10-22T18:26:00.004-04:00

We're very excited to announce Pubget's latest product: Pubget PaperPlane. It lets takes you to the PDF from any PubMed search result. Check it out in action, below:

Tangent: Startup Culture

2009-10-05T18:50:00.005-04:00

A snapshot from Gyrobike, another startup that I'm loosely affiliated with. You want your dog to have his own fuzzy chair in your office? It's your startup, go get it done.

Pubget Activates 100th Research Institution, Accelerates Journal Content Consumption Across Publishers

2009-09-24T14:05:00.000-04:00

(Business Wire) Pubget, the life science search engine empowering full-text journal access, today activates its 100th research institution. This brings Pubget’s capabilities to an estimated base of 500,000 research scientists and clinicians worldwide.

“I’m tremendously pleased that we’ve reached the 100 institution milestone,” notes Ramy Arnaout, Pubget Chairman and CEO. “When we founded the company our core goal was to accelerate the pace of science. Now with the support of tens of thousands of users, we’re accelerating science at more research centers than ever, all over the world.”

Pubget’s growing popularity stems from its proprietary pathing database. This database helps Pubget deliver a radically efficient search experience by providing users instant access to their publisher subscriptions: With Pubget, users don’t just get a list of results, they get papers.

According to a recent Outsell, Inc. report, Pubget aligns with a larger trend toward “power browsing,” where users prefer to search and consume content irrespective of the source from which it came. Such “publisher-neutral” search makes Pubget comparable to an iTunes or Amazon Bookstore for scientific literature.

The Outsell Insights report also notes that Pubget’s copyright-compliant approach and instant content delivery likely drives up core content usage for content owners, much like iTunes and Amazon do for their respective media. For more information on active Pubget institutions, see the Pubget homepage. For more information on Outsell, a research and advisory firm focused on the publishing, information, and education industries, go to www.outsellinc.com.

About Pubget: Pubget is a search platform for life science. Pubget’s first product, at pubget.com, solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search results linking to papers, the search results are the papers. Once you find the papers you want, you can save, manage and share them—all online. Pubget's core service is free to scientists and doctors; it also offers a suite of premium features and marketing services to the life science community. For more info, or to activate your institution, email us at team@pubget.com.

Future of Scientific Publishing?

2009-08-31T08:29:00.002-04:00

In a recent issue of Science, authors Renear and Palmer explored ontologies and the future of scientific publishing. In general they do a fine job. In particular, they provide some compelling data describing the increase in papers read per year, and the decrease in time allotted to reading any one paper. Specifically, the authors estimate that volume of papers read by any one scientist in a year has increased by nearly 50% since 2000. Meanwhile, the time devoted to each paper has fallen by about 20% in that same period.

This means that the number of papers consumed has increased rapidly, but the time allotted to each hasn't fallen commensurately. How is this possible?

The answer, as the authors postulate (and Pubget agrees) is better workflow tools. If you can save time getting to each paper, you can spend more time reading it. Hey, that's why we're here!

Also, from a different corner of the web comes a recent Outsell report on Pubget. I'll let the piece stand on its own, but it's worth checking out if you subscribe to Outsell's services. I enjoyed getting to know Dan Pollock during the development of the piece, and it's clear that we agree on the future of scientific publishing, too.

The Best Citation Matching in Science. No, Really.

2009-08-04T18:28:00.002-04:00

I'm super psyched to announce this material leap forward in Pubget's performance. In my days at FAST, this was called query processing. We are now query processing better than any other major scientific search engine.

Here's a bit from the user email that we sent out:

Every day, millions of scientists, doctors and researchers search for papers by their scholarly citation, only to find that the papers they want are nowhere to be found, or buried somewhere deep in a long list.

Pubget outperforms other sites in citation matching, retrieving the correct articles 95% of the time on a benchmark test. To put that into perspective, PubMed and Google Scholar score 81% and 50%, respectively, on the same test. (Email us at info@pubget.com for the benchmark set and methodology)

Try Pubget's industry-leading citation matching for yourself by going to pubget.com and pasting in your favorite citation. Here are a few random citations if you want to give it a try:

J Biol Chem 277: 30738-30745
Nucleic Acids Res 2004;32:4812-20.
Evol. Biol. 7, 214 (2007).

Pubget and Seed

2009-07-30T11:46:00.004-04:00

We've been working with the folks at Seed for some time now; they are indeed good peoples. Below we announce the first fruit born of this collaboration. We're pleased.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - (Business Wire) Pubget, the life science search engine that solves the problem of full-text content access, today announced a partnership with the Seed Technology-powered ResearchBlogging.org. As a result, the hundreds of bloggers and thousands of readers who use Seed’s ResearchBlogging platform will be able to get instant access to full text research via Pubget.

The collaboration brings together two technology approaches unique in science. ResearchBlogging is a platform that provides scientific bloggers with a standard for referencing peer-reviewed papers, while serving a fast-growing group of readers with a destination for scanning blog posts about scientific research.

Pubget’s proprietary path engine gets users to the full text PDF of these papers right away. Pubget’s path engine knows the exact location of millions of full text PDFs from over 20,000 science journals and delivers them as search results. Through the combination of the two approaches, bloggers and readers can instantly access the full text research behind the posts.

“The partnership with Pubget is a great complement to ResearchBlogging’s service,” notes Seed’s VP of Global Partnerships, Joy Moore. “ResearchBlogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases. Pubget completes the connection by helping readers get the full text PDF of research right away.”

The partnership marks the first collaboration between Seed and Pubget, and the first media implementation of Pubget’s Widget API. “We’re delighted to be working with Seed,” says Ryan Jones, President of Pubget. “Seed shares our vision of accelerating the pace of science with technology.”

Cloud

2009-07-10T08:30:00.012-04:00

We just added our 136th server to the Pubget search cloud. VERY exciting. Congrats to Ian and team for building a very scalable architecture.

Now we can deliver papers on H1N1 and but also hit you with papers on nose picking and bees on crack with more speed than ever.
(Thanks to NCBIROFL for the funnies)

Disruptive Technology

2009-07-03T09:44:00.003-04:00

Michael Nielsen has a stirring blog post about the potential impact of technology on the scientific publishing industry:

...Today, scientific publishers are production companies, specializing in services like editorial, copyediting, and, in some cases, sales and marketing. My claim is that in ten to twenty years, scientific publishers will be technology companies. By this, I don’t just mean that they’ll be heavy users of technology, or employ a large IT staff. I mean they’ll be technology-driven companies in a similar way to, say, Google or Apple. That is, their foundation will be technological innovation, and most key decision-makers will be people with deep technological expertise. Those publishers that don’t become technology driven will die off....

No additional editorial needed from this guy. Happy 4th.

Get Yer Lab Page Widget On

2009-06-27T17:24:00.011-04:00

Thousands of lab websites feature papers written by the scientists therein. Trouble is, these sites tend to be hugely tedious to update. That's why Pubget developed the lab site widget. Simply enter the name of the PI for your lab (or any other search term you'd like to keep track of) and we'll serve up the latest papers.

Looking right there you can see I'm tracking research on happiness :)
But you could also track papers from your favorite author, like RA Arnaout

50

2009-06-10T08:00:00.006-04:00

A nice milestone for Pubget today. Looking forward to the next 50!

Pubget Activates 50th Research Institution, Launches New Capabilities Aimed at Accelerating the Pace of Science on the Web

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.---Pubget, the life science search engine that solves the problem of full-text content access, today activates its 50th research institution. Now more scientists and doctors than ever can accelerate the pace of research with Pubget’s index of 20 million documents.

Pubget helps scientists get research fast because it’s the only search engine in the world coupled with Pubget’s proprietary path engine. The path engine knows the exact location of millions of full text PDF files from over 20,000 science journals and delivers them as search results. This eliminates the maze of clicks typical of research today, while still respecting copyrights.

As of this week, Pubget works with the subscription systems at 50 universities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other research institutions. Scientists at these places can now conduct research without getting slowed down by the location of content or the logistics of subscription access. For users without subscription access, Pubget is the most comprehensive source of free life science research papers on the web.

“Each year, scientists spend at least a quarter billion minutes searching for life science literature online,” says Ramy Arnaout, MD, PhD, Pubget chairman and CEO. “This is time they could better spend curing disease and building the future. Pubget's mission is to give them that time back. We’re delighted to be helping the top research institutions in the world as we activate our first 50.” The list of activated institutions can be found at www.pubget.com.

In conjunction with its expanded institution lineup, Pubget is releasing the Pubget Plugin and the Pubget Widget. The Plugin allows users to download batches of PDFs from their searches in one click, handy for offline reading. Meanwhile, the Widget allows any website to display the latest life science research associated with the context of that page.

About Pubget:

Pubget is a search platform for life science. Pubget’s first product, at pubget.com, solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search results linking to papers, the search results are the papers. Once you find the papers you want, you can save, manage and share them—all online. Pubget's core service is free to scientists and doctors; it also offers a suite of premium features and marketing services to the life science community. For more info, or to activate your institution, email us at team@pubget.com.

Inbound

2009-05-31T10:01:00.003-04:00

Later this week, Pubget will announce synchronizing with it's 50th institution. This means that users at a given university, hospital or biopharma can get access to all of their subscription holdings seamlessly through our search service. You can see the earlier adopters on our homepage, such as Harvard and UCSF.

We're fortunate to have a passionate user base. These pending synchronizations are all the result of a ton of inbound interest from end users at intuitions. We now have requests from the following. If you've sent a request, don't fear, we're almost ready with it!

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
American Museum of Natural History
American University of Beirut
Amgen
Arizona State University
Atomic Energy Agency
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
Australian National University
Biotechnical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Birgham and Womens Hospital (BWH)
Boston University
Brown University
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Calcutta University
Capital Health DAL
Cardiff University
Centers for Disease Control
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Biophysics)
Cincinnati Children's Medical Center
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dalhousie University
Dartmouth College
Drexel University
East Carolina University
Eastern Illinois University
Ecole Normale Superieure De Lyon
Emory University
Exiqon, Inc.
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida International University
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Frei Universität Berlin
Georgetown University
Georgia Tech
Hospital Pediatrico de Sinaoa
Indiana University
Institute of Science and Technology Information of China
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Curitiba, Brazil
Johns Hopkins University
Kaohsiung Medical University
King's College London
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
LIPROVE, Fa. Cs. Exactas, Univ. Nacional de La Plata
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Loyola College, Maryland
Marymount University
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
McMaster University
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
National Institute for Medical Research
New York Academy of Medicine
NIH
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
NYU Medical Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ohio State University
Oregon State University
Peking University
Pramongkutklao hospital
Princeton University
Queen Mary University of London
Queensland Health
Rand Corporation
Rochester Institute of Technology
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
San Diego State University
Shivaji University
Singapore General Hospital
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
Stanford University
State University of New York (all SUNY)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Libraries
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Teledyne Technologies - Teledyne Scientific and Imaging
Temple University
The Dagestan State University
The New School for Social Research
The University of Iowa
Thomas Jefferson University
Trinity College Dublin
Tufts University
Turkey Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Ministry of Health
UFRGS
Ullevaal University Hospital
UMY
University of Mainz
University of Melbourne
Universidade de São Paulo
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - UFES
Université de la Mediterranée
Universite de Montreal
University College London
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Arkansas
University of Brasilia, Brazil
University of British Columbia
University of California—Irvine
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
University of Cambridge
University of Ceara
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado—Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
University of Connecticut
University of Edinburgh
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Helsinki
University of Illinois
University of Indonesia
University of Iowa
University of Jena
University of Jyväskylä
University of Kentucky
University of Kuopio
University of Louisville
University of Maryland
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota
University of New South Wales
University of Newcastle, Australia
University of North Carolina
University of Oklahoma
University of Ottawa
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Porto
University of Queensland
University of Rochester Medical Center
University of South Alabama
University of Sydney
University of Teesside
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
University of Texas at Arlington
University of the Basque Country
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Victoria Library
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Waterloo
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
University of St. La Salle College of Medicine
Ursinus College
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Weill Cornell Medical College
Wells College
Yale University
Yonsei University

Fake Journals

2009-05-18T09:31:00.007-04:00

The talk around the Pubget water cooler lately has been about fake journals. Corporate advertorials, in the form of faux research reports or journals has been around forever. I had first-hand experience with it nearly a decade ago, when the Yankee Group's competitors started writing white papers for hire. In that case, IT vendors would hire a research firm to write a apparently independent research report about a company's products. In reality, these would be a charitable for-pay review of the company's wares.

The paid editorial work performed by Elsevier in the slashdot article is not better or worse than the payola white papers in the IT world; it's just different. Here positively-slanted studies were collected and packaged in a 'journal' -- a journal that lacked the peer-oversight integral to trusted scientific research. So, these fake journals are not made-up content, but selectively assembled content. Still leaves a bad taste.

What's interesting to us here at Pubget is the value of associating editorial content with promotion. The payola perpetrators hoped to enhance the credibility of their products by associating it with published research. BUT these products are ALREADY associated with the published research. The compounds (or lab gear, reagents, services) are mentioned in the materials and methods section of papers TODAY. Elsevier simply chose an ethically sneaky way of pointing this out to readers.

This is exactly one of the problems that Pubget is solving. Our upcoming lead generation platform bundles trusted publications, in a familiar format (PDF), with sidecar promotions. This keeps the integrity of the original work sound, but also allows pharmas and lab vendors to get the word out. Sound cool? Send us an email.

Tailwind.

2009-04-27T11:48:00.008-04:00

We just wrapped up a good week here: Pubget's user growth touched 87% m/m, and we signed our first major marketing services deal. We're also starting to hear satisfying evidence from folks in the lab about how our platform makes science more efficient.

We're also pretty psyched that our good week is aligning with a significant long-term tailwind: there are more signs of a pending massive reinvestment in science (and scientific tools). For instance, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the feds recently delivered $10.4 billion in new funding to the NIH. And just today the Obama administration announced its intention to increase overall scientific research spending to 3% of the GDP - this is a staggering number at over $400 billion.

Nice to have an up-week wrapped in some promising forecasts for our industry - and for the future of scientific research.

Science Commons

2009-04-06T22:34:00.006-04:00

We were lucky enough to sit down for a late Friday meeting with John Wilbanks of Science Commons. His folks, who are holed up in the gorgeous (but leaky) Gehry building on the MIT campus, are up to big things - we see the future of scientific information in a very similar way. Here's a snippet:

Experimenting with Search Analytics

2009-03-27T12:55:00.000-04:00

Although Pubget's core mission is to make bioscience search faster and easier, we're lucky to have a robust search engine that allows us to perform all sorts of analytical tasks on our index of 20 million documents.

I came across some wiki analytics on the Mass Spectrometry Blog and thought I'd have a go comparing the short term trend noted by the Mass Spec folks here.

...with our longer term analytics on the number of Mass Spec-oriented journal articles published over the last forty years. Net? Growing fast today according to Wikirank, and this is part of a larger trend, according to Pubget.

Hello world!

2009-03-27T12:41:00.000-04:00

We've just set this site to track the goings on at Pubget headquarters as we work to grow our search engine.

If you're just coming across us Pubget solves the problem of full-text document access in bioscience research. Instead of search results linking to papers, with Pubget's proprietary technology, the search results ARE the papers. Once you find the papers you want, you can save, manage and share them - all online.

Why'd we do it? Each year, scientists spend at least a quarter billion minutes searching for biomedical literature online. This is time they could better spend curing disease and building the future. Pubget's mission is to give them (you!) that time back.