Funny thing we've noticed about Pubget. You tell people "It's like Pubmed, except you get the PDFs right away." But then some people say, "Sounds nice, but I can already get PDFs right away. I can click really fast." And you're not quite sure what to say to that. It's like it's 100 years ago and you're pitching the idea of using the airplane to cross the Atlantic and someone says, "Sounds nice, but we've already got a really fast boat."
The only thing you can do is show them. And short of them visiting Pubget at www.pubget.com and clicking under where it says "Try it!" we figured the best thing was a movie. And so here we are on YouTube, so you can see what we mean.
The only thing to note is that this was on a computer where the user was already logged in to a supported institution (more on how to get your institution supported in another post), so there's no login prompt, and all the PDFs are available. If you try this search—it was "kirschner mw[au]", in case you can't read it—without institutional access, you still get about half the PDFs, but not, say the ones from Nature. But hopefully this little clip is enough to illustrate the problem, and how Pubget is the solution.
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