Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Not at Harvard? Try www.pubget.com—or subscribe

We've noticed that an awful lot of people out there seem to be going to Pubget through our Harvard flavor, harvard.pubget.com. We're sure you've noticed that unless you have a Harvard PIN, you can't get Harvard's own holdings this way, just public-access PDFs. Visitors to harvard.pubget.com will notice you now get sent to a login screen. This is much nicer for folks who are actually at Harvard, since it's fewer clicks for them—Pubget is all about speed—but for everyone else, it must be pretty disappointing, because now you won't be able to get to any of your search results, not even the public ones.

Luckily, the solution is easy: if you're not at Harvard (or another subscribing institution), use www.pubget.com instead of harvard.pubget.com. When you do, you'll get all the access you were already getting—plus now you'll at least see the abstracts for papers that you don't have access to. Of course, if you're not at a subscribing institution but still want to search at Pubget speed, just tell your university or hospital or company to subscribe, and we'll set you up with your very own flavor of Pubget.

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