- Harvard University (HU PIN): harvard.pubget.com
- Harvard Medical School (HMS): ecommons.pubget.com
- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH): mgh.pubget.com
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): mit.pubget.com
- University of Queensland (UQ): uq.pubget.com
Everyone else (except institutions we're working with now to bring online; you know who you are) should use www.pubget.com.
What does a flavor mean? Having a flavor means Pubget supports (at least some of) the library collections at a particular institution. So say you're at MGH, and can access a paper or journal through MGH's library. In that case you can get it through Pubget MGH, mgh.pubget.com. When you type in your search, Pubget will ferry you to the appropriate login page at MGH. Note that this is an MGH login page, not a Pubget login page: Pubget is set up so that it can never see your institutional passwords. (That's part of how Pubget respects your privacy; more on that in another post.) If you're not at MGH, you won't be able to get past that page. But if you are, you type whatever it wants you to and you get sent on to Pubget, which shows you the PDF of that paper or all the PDFs in that journal you were looking for.
Having a flavor means your institution is supported. If it isn't, you can go to www.pubget.com and get public PDFs—which include everything the NIH has ever funded up to a year ago (more on that in another post, too), the Public Library of Science and Biomed Central journals, and select others—but not things like the latest issue of Nature or Science (we wish we could help, but copyrights are copyrights). If you're not sure, you can ask us, or ask your librarian, or both.
So how do you get your institution added? Easy: you let us know you're interested, and you tell your librarian. We're bringing new institutions online all the time. And then: prepare for science at speed.
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