Pubget and UCL Library resources

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Last updated: Nov 09, 2010Version comment
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Pubget is a view of the PubMed database based around getting full text articles.
A search of Pubget for a biomedical topic will aim to show a PDF of the article in a preview pane alongside the search results, where the full text is available online for UCL members.

Note: UCL journal holdings have been provided to Pubget during 2010, but these will not be completely up-to-date.

If Pubget does not display the full text of an article, do use official UCL routes to try and locate it, just to make sure.

Pre-requisites

  • Any web browser which can display PDFs within the browser (rather than opening a PDF reader as a separate window)
  • If you are using Pubget outside the UCL network, configure your browser to accept third-party cookies (see Pubget notes)

Pubget for UCL

  • Go to http://pubget.com/?institution=ucl to set UCL as your default location to search for online articles
  • Enter your search in Pubget
  • Click on an article in the results list. If the full text is available, it will show in the right-hand pane.
  • If you are outside the UCL network, you will need to log in using your UCL userid and password when prompted in the right-hand pane.
  • Sometimes, the article is not displayed automatically, but options may be presented to try and locate it, again including login for off-campus users.