Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Endnote and a few other tweaks

The past few days have seen a few tweaks to Pubget that we wanted to tell you about.

First, the abstract view is now a little more functional. (This is something you'll see a lot if your institution doesn't subscribe to Pubget yet.) Clicking on the author now does a search for that author. And we've added a link to search for related articles. We also added a link to the YouTube video, so you can see how Pubget works if you get your institution supported.

Second, the "retry" button in the top-right corner is now a little easier to see and use. You click this if your PDF doesn't show but you think it should. If that doesn't work, click "still a problem?" and tell us what went wrong; we'll do our best to help. Oh, and please leave an email, or else we can't write you back.

Third, you can now download citations for any or all of your keepers folders. This is handy for sending a lot of citations to Endnote or BibTeX all at once. You could always download citations for individual results using the little down-arrow on the results listing (and still can). But now you can go to your keepers and click "get citations" and Pubget will download whatever folder you're in to a .ris file on your computer, which you can import into Endnote or drag-and-drop to Bibdesk.

Fourth, it's now a little easier for you to tell when your browser's finished loading each result; results go from light blue to black when they've loaded. We did this to save you from clicking on results before they load.

As always, we'd love to hear what you think. And check back here often; we've got a couple of other things in the works we think you might like.

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