[BOAI] PLoS Launches Fast (Open) PDF Access with Pubget

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from PubGet.  --Peter Suber.]


*Tuesday, March 2, 2010 —PLoS Launches Fast PDF Access with Pubget, Making
Full Text Article Content More Accessible*

Today PLoS released Pubget links across its journal sites. Now, when users
are browsing thousands of reference citations on PLoS journals they will be
able to get to the full text article faster than ever before.

Specifically, when readers encounter citations to articles as recorded by
CrossRef (which are accessed via the ‘CrossRef’ link in the ‘Cited in’
section of any article’s Metrics tab), a PDF icon will also appear if it is
freely available via Pubget. Clicking on the icon will take you directly to
the PDF.

On launching this new functionality, Pete Binfield, Publisher of PLoS ONE
and the Community Journals said: “Any service, like Pubget, that makes it
easier for authors to quickly find the information they need is a
welcome addition to our articles. We like how Pubget helps to break down
content walls in science, letting users get instantly to the article-level
detail that they seek.”

In this first phase, PLoS is linking to the free PDFs on Pubget. For those
citations without a freely available PDF you have two options. The CrossRef
link will take you to the publishers site, where you can see if you
have access. Or, if you work for any of the 200+ institutions in Pubget’s
network (for example MIT, and UCSF), you can use the citation to get the
subscription PDFs right away on Pubget.com. If you want to add your
institution to the Pubget network, just tell your library – Pubget is free.
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