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Pubget overview

Our Mission

Each year scientists spend a half-billion minutes searching for papers online. This is time better spent curing disease and building the future. Pubget's mission is to give scientists their time back, improve the research workflow and ultimately, accelerate discoveries.

About Pubget

Pubget is the search engine for life science PDFs. Pubget makes scientific research easier by simplifying the process of finding, managing and analyzing scientific papers. The core solution at www.pubget.com provides article-level tools making content discovery, access and copyright management much easier for the user. Pubget's corporate services offer relevant banner and contextual advertisement for marketers and search services for libraries and R&D departments, including repository and text mining platforms.

The People

The Pubget team has hundreds of years of experience in academic publishing, software architecture, digital marketing and enterprise search. We’re focusing our experience on streamlining academic content access and making science (and cures!) faster. Click here to learn more about our senior management team.

Track Record

Pubget has grown quickly since the initial launch at Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2008.

Late 2008:
Pubget.com launched
Apr 2009:
Ad service launched
Jun 2009:
First 50 institutions activated
Jun 2009:
Pubget Widgetizer launched
Jul 2009:
Seed media deploys first widget
Sep 2009:
100 institutions activated
Oct 2009:
PaperPlane launched
Feb 2010:
API launched
Mar 2010:
Pubget.com 2.0 launched
Apr 2010:
PaperStore launched with partner Reprints Desk
May 2010:
PaperStats beta launched
Jun 2010:
AlwaysOn East 100 winner
Jun 2010:
Mobile site launched
Sep 2010:
Partnership with Copyright Clearance Center
Jan 2011:
200 institutions activated
Feb 2011:
Pubget PaperStream announced
Jun 2011:
Pubget PaperStream released
Jul 2011:
Pubget.com site wide redesign
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