Pubget
{{Short description|Scholarly search engine (2007–2017)}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Pubget
| logo = Corporate Logo copy.jpg
| foundation = Cambridge, MA, USA (2007)
| parent = Copyright Clearance Center
| key_people = Ramy Arnaout,
Ian Connor,
Ryan Jones
| homepage = [http://www.pubget.com/ www.pubget.com]}}
Pubget Corp was a wholly owned subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center that developed cloud-based search and content access tools for scientists. It provided advertising services, enterprise search services, and a public search engine.{{cite web|title=Pubget Everywhere|url=http://corporate.pubget.com/about/where_you_are|website=Pubget|access-date=17 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065952/http://corporate.pubget.com/about/where_you_are|archive-date=16 July 2011|url-status=live}} The company was founded in 2007 by Beth Israel Hospital clinical pathologist Ramy Arnaout out of his own need to find papers.{{cite web|title=Got PubMed? Pubget Searches and Delivers Scientific PDFs|url=http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/06/10/09/pubget-full-text-PDF-search.html|publisher=Bio-IT World|access-date=17 June 2011|first=Kevin|last=Davies|date=10 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601184539/http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/06/10/09/pubget-full-text-PDF-search.html|archive-date=1 June 2011|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Founder's Friday: Pubget|url=http://greenhornconnect.com/blog/founders-friday-pubget|publisher=Greenhorn Connect|date=7 January 2011|access-date=21 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603012753/http://greenhornconnect.com/blog/founders-friday-pubget|archive-date=3 June 2011|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Goodison|first=Donna|title=Southie Firm Speeds Up Access to Research Papers|url=http://bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/technology/view.bg?articleid=1341114|access-date=21 June 2011|newspaper=Boston Herald|date=28 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110618035806/http://bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/technology/view.bg?articleid=1341114|archive-date=18 June 2011|url-status=live}} Pubget moved its headquarters from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Boston's Innovation District in 2011.{{cite web|title=Welcome home, Pubget|url=http://www.innovationdistrict.org/2011/05/13/welcome-pubget/|publisher=Innovation District|date=13 May 2011|access-date=16 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110618184220/http://www.innovationdistrict.org/2011/05/13/welcome-pubget/|archive-date=18 June 2011|url-status=usurped}}
Pubget.com was a free service for non-profit institutions and their libraries and researchers. The site provided direct access to full-text content from 450 libraries around the world. It was announced in January 2012 that Pubget was acquired by Copyright Clearance Center.{{cite web |title=Copyright Clearance Center Acquires Pubget |date=9 January 2012 |url=http://www.copyright.com/content/cc3/en/toolbar/aboutUs/newsRoom/pressReleases/press_2012/press-release-12-01-09.html |access-date=11 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028033620/http://www.copyright.com/content/cc3/en/toolbar/aboutUs/newsRoom/pressReleases/press_2012/press-release-12-01-09.html |archive-date=28 October 2018 |url-status=live }} The service was closed in 2017.
Products and Services
Search Engine
Pubget's search engine retrieved article citations and full text PDFs from PubMed, ArXiv, Karger, American Society for Microbiology, IEEE, RSS feeds, XML from publishers, and Open Archive sources.{{cite journal|last1=Featherstone|first1=Robin|first2=Denise |last2=Hersey |date=4 October 2010 |title=The quest for full text: an in-depth examination of Pubget for medical searchers|journal=Medical Reference Services Quarterly |volume=29|issue=4|pages=307–319|doi=10.1080/02763869.2010.518911|pmid=21058175|s2cid=36459379}} The company's search engine contained over 28 million scientific documents and added 10,000 papers each day. Pubget created a link directly from the article citation to the paper itself via a continuously updated database of links.{{cite web|last=Murray|first=P.E.|date=4 August 2009|title=Analysis of Pubget – An Expedited Fulltext Service for Life Science Journal Articles|url=http://dltj.org/article/analysis-of-pubget-an-expedited-fulltext-service-for-life-science-journal-articles/|publisher=Disruptive Library Technology Jester|access-date=21 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708153340/http://dltj.org/article/analysis-of-pubget-an-expedited-fulltext-service-for-life-science-journal-articles/|archive-date=8 July 2011|url-status=live}} Because of this database, users were directly linked from a citation to the full-text paper.
Access to closed full-text PDFs was granted through the institution's subscriptions. Pubget did not bypass copyright laws and therefore displayed only the abstract of restricted papers if the end user did not have institutional access.
PaperStats
Pubget PaperStats was a usage and spend analysis tool for libraries. PaperStats automatically harvested serials usage statistics delivering consolidated usage, cost, and other reports directly from publishers. Content performance could be assessed through cost-per-view analysis. Upon introduction, PaperStats was beta tested with the USC Norris Medical Library and yielded positive results for Pubget, USC and the library community.{{cite journal|last=Curran|first=Megan |date=2 March 2011|title=Debating Beta: Considerations for Libraries|journal=Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries|volume=8|issue=2|pages=117–125|doi=10.1080/15424065.2011.576604|s2cid=62711345 }}
PaperStore
The Pubget PaperStore provided Pubget users the option of purchasing full text papers from thousands of journals on the search engine results page. Content rights and delivery were provided by document delivery vendor, Reprints Desk.
Advertising
Pubget provided several advertising solutions. Customers included Bio-Rad, Agilent, and other scientific brands. Ads were matched with paper content via contextual targeting. For example, manufacturers of a piece of scientific equipment could pay to advertise alongside a paper that mentions using said product.{{cite web|title=Media Kit: Pubget Ads|url=http://corporate.pubget.com/pdfs/mediakit_glossy.pdf|publisher=Pubget, Inc.|access-date=24 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326175352/http://corporate.pubget.com/pdfs/mediakit_glossy.pdf|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=live}} Pubget, however, did not reveal data on individual users and their searches.
Textmining
Pubget's textmining technology allowed research and development teams to uncover specific text strings across large groups of papers.{{cite web|title=Textmining Fact Sheet|url=http://corporate.pubget.com/pdfs/Pubget_Textmine_2010.pdf|publisher=Pubget, Inc.|access-date=15 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326175414/http://corporate.pubget.com/pdfs/Pubget_Textmine_2010.pdf|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=live}}
PaperStream
PaperStream was a web app that allowed lab teams to share, store, and find documents all in one place.{{cite web|title=Pubget PaperStream|url=http://pubget.com/paperstream|publisher=Pubget, Inc.|access-date=24 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002055908/http://pubget.com/paperstream|archive-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live}} PaperStream organized companies’ subscriptions, purchased papers, and internal documents into an automated library database.{{cite web|title=Pubget PaperStream For Companies|url=http://pubget.com/paperstream/forcompanies|publisher=Pubget, Inc.|access-date=24 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624162329/http://pubget.com/paperstream/forcompanies|archive-date=24 June 2011|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Pubget PaperStream For Researchers|url=http://pubget.com/paperstream/forresearchers|publisher=Pubget, Inc.|access-date=24 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007085236/http://pubget.com/paperstream/forresearchers|archive-date=7 October 2011|url-status=live}}
API
Pubget's API provided access to its search and linking technology from third-party websites.{{cite web|title=PubgetCloud |url=http://corporate.pubget.com/pdfs/Pubget_API_2010.pdf |publisher=Pubget, Inc. |access-date=16 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326175421/http://corporate.pubget.com/pdfs/Pubget_API_2010.pdf |archive-date=March 26, 2012 }}{{cite web|last=Munger|first=Dave|date=10 June 2009|title=Pubget – Useful, Growing Resource for Anyone Interested in Research|url=http://researchblogging.org/news/?p=126|publisher=Researchblogging News|access-date=29 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314130506/http://researchblogging.org/news/?p=126|archive-date=14 March 2012|url-status=live}}{{irrelevant citation|reason=no mention of API|date=February 2014}}
References
{{Reflist|35em}}
External links
- {{main website|http://pubget.com/}}
Category:2007 establishments in the United States
Category:Bioinformatics companies
Category:Companies based in Boston
Category:Software companies established in 2007
Category:Research support companies
Category:Scholarly search services
Category:Search engine software
Category:2007 establishments in Massachusetts
Category:2012 mergers and acquisitions