computer science

Pubget

Pubget is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pubget rather than just read about it. In short: Pubget Corp was a wholly owned subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center that developed cloud-based search and content access tools for scientists. It provided advertising services, enterprise search services, and a public search engine.

Key takeaways

Pubget belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Pubget to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Pubget from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Pubget Corp was a wholly owned subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center that developed cloud-based search and content access tools for scientists. It provided advertising services, enterprise search services, and a public search engine. The company was founded in 2007 by Beth Israel Hospital clinical pathologist Ramy Arnaout out of his own need to find papers. Pubget moved its headquarters from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Boston's Innovation District in 2011. Pubget.com was a free service for non-profit institutions and their libraries and researchers. The site provided direct access to full-text content from 450 libraries around the world. It was announced in January 2012 that Pubget was acquired by Copyright Clearance Center. The service was closed in 2017.

Products and Services Search Engine Pubget's search engine retrieved article citations and full text PDFs from PubMed, ArXiv, Karger, American Society for Microbiology, IEEE, RSS feeds, XML from publishers, and Open Archive sources. The company's search engine contained over 28 million scientific documents and added 10,000 papers each day. Pubget created a link directly from the article citation to the paper itself via a continuously updated database of links. Because of this database, users were directly linked from a citation to the full-text paper. Access to closed full-text PDFs was granted through the institution's subscriptions. Pubget did not bypass copyright laws and therefore displayed only the abstract of restricted papers if the end user did not have institutional access. PaperStats Pubget PaperStats was a usage and spend analysis tool for libraries. PaperStats automatically harvested serials usage statistics delivering consolidated usage, cost, and other reports directly from publishers. Content performance could be assessed through cost-per-view analysis. Upon introduction, PaperStats was beta tested with the USC Norris Medical Library and yielded positive results for Pubget, USC and the library community. PaperStore The Pubget PaperStore provided Pubget users the option of purchasing full text papers from thousands of journals on the search engine results page. Content rights and delivery were provided by document delivery vendor, Reprints Desk. Advertising Pubget provided several advertising solutions. Customers included Bio-Rad, Agilent, and other scientific brands. Ads were matched with paper content via contextual targeting. For example, manufacturers of a piece of scientific equipment could pay to advertise alongside a paper that mentions using said product. Pubget, however, did not reveal data on individual users and their searches. Textmining Pubget's textmining technology allowed research and development teams to uncover specific text strings across large groups of papers. PaperStream PaperStream was a web app that allowed lab teams to share, store, and find documents all in one place. PaperStream organized companies’ subscriptions, purchased papers, and internal documents into an automated library database. API Pubget's API provided access to its search and linking technology from third-party websites.

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pubget

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pubget claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pubget before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pubget ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pubget

In research: Pubget appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pubget in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pubget is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2007 establishments in Massachusetts, 2012 mergers and acquisitions, 2017 disestablishments in Massachusetts, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pubget outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pubget in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Pubget means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Pubget out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Pubget in simple terms?

Why does Pubget matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pubget?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Pubget.