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.
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:
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.
