[Web4lib] PubGet

[Rushton, Erin]

Like Bohyun I also activated PubGet early this year.  We have not done any
active promotion either.  If our LibGuide statistics are any indication its
only been access a few times.

I found it interesting that the developers seemed *very* keen on getting our
profile activated.  They probably emailed me on a weekly basis to see how we
were doing with the customization.

I am curious to see if a resource like this will affect usage statistics
since pdfs are automatically being downloaded.  Does anyone have any
thoughts on this?  
 

On 12/02/10 4:15 PM, "Bohyun Kim" <kimb at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Dede,
> 
> I activated PubGet early this year for our library. We haven't done any active
> promotion about it. So I am not sure how much use it gets. But it doesn't hurt
> to turn it on just in case any users go to PubGet and look for their
> institutional libraries. We use SerialsSolutions for a link resolver. When you
> search for an article in PubGet, PubGet catches both HTML and PDF page if both
> are available as separate result item. This means that if there is a dead link
> in your link resolver KB, the error message will also be displayed instead of
> full-text. 
> 
> If there are other libraries that promoted PubGet and tested it more
> extensively, I would love to hear more.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Bohyun
> 
> ---
> Bohyun Kim, M.A., M.L.I.S.
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> FIU Medical Library
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> Hello -
> 
>  
> 
> I have been asked to investigate PubGet, http://pubget.com   Does your
> library use PubGet?  Can you please share advantages/disadvantages?
> User experience?  Is it useful only if your library has access to a
> large number of PDFs? If an article is only available in HTML, does the
> user get an indication of that alternative? Comparisons to a standard
> link resolver?
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> 
> Thank you!
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