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Quick PDFs from your PubMed Searches with PubGet PaperPlane!

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Quick PDFs from your PubMed Searches with PubGet PaperPlane!
An exciting new bookmark tool lets you pull up PDFs from your PubMed searches in seconds. With PubGet PaperPlane, you get the full functionality of the PubMed search interface, with the convenience of browsing the PDFs of the articles you’ve retrieved.

This quick video shows you how to add the PaperPlane bookmark to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. In your PubMed search results click the PaperPlane bookmark, and it will pull up available PDFs for you to view and download.
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Pubget is a free simple search engine of nearly 20 million life science articles, designed to simplify PDF retrieval. Personal accounts allow readers to create a custom list of their favorite journals.

Jefferson librarians have linked the PubGet service to our journal database, so that you can connect to our thousands of electronic journal subscriptions. While available automatically on campus, off-campus users should specify Thomas Jefferson on the “I get my PDFs from” menu.

Our tests of PaperPlane have shown that it works with the current version of PubMed in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.   It doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 6.   Some articles will deliver Session Cookie Errors if the browser won’t accept cookies. [Editor's note: A representative from PubGet told us they're working on better browser compatibility.]

Unlike some other PDF downloading services (Scopus/ScienceDirect/EndNote), with PubGet you must download each PDF separately and the PDFs are not renamed with author, title, etc.  However, registered users may download a Firefox extension that processes bulk downloads of PDFs:

Pubget bulk pdf

If you have questions about PubGet, PaperPlane or other JEFFLINE resources, please contact the Reference Desk at 215-503-8150, askalibrarian@jefferson.edu. or chat with us at SMLReference.

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Find Jefferson research with our new Jefflinked PubMed tab!

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Update: The tab is now labeled “Articles published by people who work at Jefferson”

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We’ve updated the tabs on Jefflinked PubMed so that search results identify articles by Jefferson authors.  Use this tab to find out who is working in different research areas at Jeff and to find collaborators, mentors and experts.

The other PubMed tabs limit results to articles that are in English with Human subjects, that are reviewed in the Faculty of 1000 Biology, or that are free online.   The new tab replaces one that showed articles available in Scott Library’s print collection.

You’ll find Jefflinked PubMed on the JEFFLINE homepage or as part of the JEFFLINE toolbar.

Want help developing your own custom PubMed tab or search strategy, or want to see what Scott Librarians can do for you? Contact the Reference staff at 215-503-8150, askalibrarian@jefferson.edu, or SMLReference [IM].

The custom PubMed tabs will apear when you start at JEFFLINE

The custom PubMed tabs will apear when you start from the JEFFLINE search box or Quick Link.

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Share your PubMed citations on the web

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

A new feature in PubMed’s MyNCBI allows researchers to share their collections of PubMed citations on PubMed’s site or their own web pages.

In your MyNCBI account, add citations to a collection, and set the privacy settings to Public. Then send your colleagues the URL or embed the code in your own web page.  If you’d like a quick start, a Scott Library librarian can show you how.

Here’s an example using trends in radiologic sciences:

You can do the same for your own publications that appear in PubMed.  Add the citations to your My Bibliography, set the privacy filter to Public then send the URL to your prospective employer, your funder or your Mom.

MyNCBI accounts are free to any user.  Help setting up your account, finding good citations and sharing what you find is free to Jefferson staff, faculty and students. Contact Scott Library’s friendly librarians for assistance at your desktop 215-503-8150.

See NLM’s announcement for full details on the new feature.

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Reformulating RSS feeds created off-campus in JEFFLINE databases

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Many of the literature databases available through JEFFLINE such as Scopus, CINAHL, and PubMed for Jeffersonians offer RSS feeds. These allow you to subscribe to your own custom searches in the reader of your choice.

However, if you’re off campus, the databases will provide a proxied URL that your reader won’t understand. Simply cut out that portion before you paste the address into your reader. For example, here’s the beginning of a feed I just created in PubMed. Delete the bold section to get a reader-friendly address:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.proxy1.lib.tju.edu:2048/entrez/…

becomes:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/…

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PubSearchPlus for iPhone

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

We got a call from a resident curious to try PubSearchPlus, a $0.99 iPhone app that searches PubMed. It claims to have a simple, efficient user interface and work with EZProxy to provide full-text access to your institution’s subscribed journals. Here is Jefferson’s address in the form they suggest:

https://login.proxy1.lib.tju.edu/login?url=%@

I don’t have an iPhone myself, so I provide this without having tested it. A colleague reports that it’s not seemlessly downloading the PDFs as advertised. If you try it or have a favorite smart phone app leave a comment!

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