My technical tips have moved

I am moving the odd technical tips that I post over to the Pubget Tech blog.

My first is about installing the MySQL gem on the latest OSX software and hardware.

So please check it out and add it to your RSS feeds. It will be worth it - thanks.

New journal available at Pubget

The April 1st inaugural issue of the Journal of Human Curiosity is available at Pubget.


UPDATE: Thanks all who enjoyed this April fools joke. You can see this still at http://pubget.com/search?q=ncbirofl%3Apapers.

Pubget team in Horse Shoe Bay, Peel Island

We took a trip out to Peel Island this weekend. The trip to Australia is going very well and everyone is having a great time.

DeepDyve - Charging $0.99 for Free Content?

From: DeepDyve - Charging $0.99 for Free Content?

...it seems like a lot of DeepDyve's content is free, yet it charges for access to some of it. Take for example an article from the Journal of Leukocyte Biology...

Added search Pubget directly from my blog

If you want to try a search on Pubget, you can right from here now. Also, if you want to add the code to your blog or libguide, please feel free!


<!-- Search Pubget -->
<center>
<form action="http://pubget.com/search" method="GET">
<input value="UTF-8" name="ie" type="hidden">
<input value="UTF-8" name="oe" type="hidden">
<table bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td>
<a href="http://pubget.com/">
<img alt="Pubget" src="http://assets0.pubget.com/images/powered_by_pubget.gif"
border="0" align="absmiddle"/ /></a>
<input maxlength="255" value="" name="q" size="25" type="text">
<input value="Pubget Search" name="btnG" type="submit">
</td></tr></table>
</form>
</center>
<!-- Search Pubget -->


Real Companies Have Espresso Machines

Pubget just installed its first espresso machines. Matt, Chris, Ryan, Ramy and I will now have an endless supply of high quality espresso to keep us going.

Pubget is a Featured Resource at UCSF

Pubget is now a "Featured Resource" on the UCSF Library Page.
Thanks to all that have sat in on the meetings and worked with us at UCSF.

Download all papers from Firefox within Pubget

We have just put up a new Firefox extension to allow downloading all PDFs for offline use.

http://pubget.com/pubget.xpi



To use this you need:

1. Pubget account (which is free);
2. Firefox (we have tested both OSX and Windows); and optionally
3. University or Hospital Library Access support by Pubget to get access to Journals.

Pubget via Google Reader

This is a quick way to subscribe to a number of journals and keep updated on all the latest research in your area.

Not only are you kept up to date, but also connected directly to the full text paper through your university library.

Pubget now on Solr

The latest version of Pubget has been rolled out and it is now based on its own search index. It has over 18 million medical and scientific papers index with over 6 million PDF paths ready for use.

The index is now Solr based and thus uses a new lucene based query syntax. To search only open access articles, you can use the query string access:open or alternatively you can limit your results by institution (e.g. access:ucsf, access:harvard, access:mit, etc).

I have been really impressed with Solr and its new 1.3 distributed sharding feature. It has allowed the use of low cost machines, amazon ec2, and s3 services.

Pubget is on the iPhone

For those Doctors, that love their iPhone, you can now run your Pubmed and Pubget [latest] searches and still get to the PDF right away.
You can read more about it on the pubget blog, or visit pubget.com/mobile on your iphone.