The basics

Pubget is a search engine for science PDFs. Type search terms into the search field, for example "CMV blood pressure 2009" and results will show up on the left of the screen, each with a number of options.

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Next: Search syntax

Advanced searching

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Pubget uses tags to let you search authors, dates or date ranges, words in article titles, and so on. You can use PubMed tags (au for author, ta for journal title, and so on) or other common tags (author or auth, for example).

The syntax is like Google's: the tag (followed by a colon) goes before the term, and terms with spaces (like author names and initials) should be contained in quotations marks.

If you enter many terms, Pubget by default returns results that contain all of them; use AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses () for more complicated Boolean searches. Capitalization shouldn't matter. Examples:

• Papers by Marc W Kirschner:
  au:"Marc W Kirschner" ([au] is the PubMed tag for author)
  auth:"marc w kirschner"
  authors:"kirschner, marc w"

• Reviews on RNAi in Nature:
  type:review rnai journal:nature
  pt:review rnai ta:nature ([pt] and [ta] are the PubMed tags for publication type and journal name, respectively)
  

• The New England Journal's images in clinical medicine:
  ta:"n engl j med" images in clinical medicine
  

Here's a list of common tags you can use for advanced searching. Don't forget to use quotes around multiple terms.

• journal name: ta, jour, journal
  ta:"J Mol Biol"


• paper title: ti, title
  ti:"Evidence for a genetic basis"


• author: au, auth
  au:"Phillip A Sharp"
  au:"sharp pa"
  au:"pa sharp"
  


• abstract: ab, abs, abst, abstr
  ab:rnai


• title+abstract: tiab
  tiab:"global warming"


• date: dp, pd, date
  date:2006 ta:plos*
  
• year: yr, year
  au:"siv andersson" yr:2006


• volume: vi, vol, volume


• page: pg
  brown plos biol vi:6 pg:e255


• citations: The preferred format for citations is author (optional) journal volume:page; year is optional. You must include a volume-colon-page.
  brown plos biol 6:e255 2008
  brown plos biol 6:e255
  plos biol 6:e255 2008
  plos biol 6:e255


• language: la, lang, language
  


• publication type (e.g., review): pt, type
  rnai type:review


• only papers you have access to PDFs for: pdf
  pdf:yes
  

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Search this author. Click an author name to do a Pubget search for the author:

Read latest issue. Click the journal name to read the latest issue of this journal:

Keep as keeper. Click the box in the upper right corner to bookmark a paper as a keeper, so you can get to it from any computer:

Find in PubMed. Click the PubMed logo to see the PubMed abstract page for this paper:

Download citation. Click the down-arrow to download the citation in .ris format, which you can open in reference managers like Endnote:

Get related articles. Click to search for related articles:

Add tag. Click the tag icon to add a little info to help you find this paper in your keepers:

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