Pubget

Pubget originated in 2007 when Ramy Arnaout, a clinical pathologist at Beth Israel Hospital, sought a more efficient way to locate scientific papers. The resulting company developed a cloud-based infrastructure for finding scholarly articles and connecting citations with legally available full-text content. Rather than functioning only as a bibliographic index, Pubget maintained links that could route a researcher directly from a search result to the relevant paper. Access depended on the user's circumstances: institutional subscriptions could unlock restricted documents, while users without access generally saw abstracts or could use a purchase option. The public Pubget.com service was made available at no charge to nonprofit institutions, libraries, and researchers. Its index drew on biomedical, scientific, technical, publisher, RSS, XML, and open-archive sources. The platform reportedly contained more than 28 million scientific documents and added about 10,000 papers daily. This scale, combined with direct full-text linking, was intended to reduce the friction between discovering a citation and obtaining the source document. Pubget expanded beyond search into tools for libraries and research organizations. PaperStats harvested serials-usage and spending information from publishers and consolidated the results into reports, including cost-per-view assessments. PaperStore offered paid access to full-text papers from search-result pages, with document rights and delivery handled by Reprints Desk. PaperStream organized company subscriptions, purchased papers, and internal documents for laboratory teams. The company also offered text-mining capabilities for searching across large bodies of literature, an API for integrating its search and linking technology into external products, and contextual advertising aimed at scientific audiences. Advertisements could be associated with the subject matter of a paper, allowing laboratory and scientific-equipment companies to reach readers in a relevant setting without Pubget disclosing individual search behavior. In 2011, Pubget moved from Cambridge to Boston's Innovation District. Copyright Clearance Center announced its acquisition of the company in January 2012, and Pubget became a wholly owned subsidiary. The acquisition aligned Pubget's discovery and linking technology with an organization focused on copyright licensing and content permissions. The Pubget service was closed in 2017. No reliable public source in the supplied material establishes a separate successor brand, later corporate owner, financial performance, or a current operating entity under the Pubget name.

• 2017

  Service discontinued

  [1]Pubgeten.wikipedia.org

  Pubget's service was closed.

• 2012

  Acquired by Copyright Clearance Center

  [1]Pubgeten.wikipedia.org

  Copyright Clearance Center announced that it had acquired Pubget, which became its wholly owned subsidiary.

• 2011

  Headquarters moved to Boston

  [1]Pubgeten.wikipedia.org

  The company relocated its headquarters from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Boston's Innovation District.

• 2007

  Pubget founded

  [1]Pubgeten.wikipedia.org

  Ramy Arnaout founded Pubget after identifying a need for more effective scientific-paper discovery.

A rights-aware scientific information platform connecting researchers and libraries to scholarly literature while providing enterprise search, analytics, document-management, text-mining, and contextual advertising services.

• Scientific search engine

  Pubget.com

  Pubget's principal public service searched scientific citations and connected results to full-text papers where access was available. It drew from biomedical, scientific, technical, publisher, RSS, XML, and open-archive sources. Institutional subscriptions could provide access to restricted PDFs; otherwise the platform showed abstracts or directed users to a purchase option. The index was described as containing more than 28 million documents and receiving approximately 10,000 additional papers per day.

• Library analytics

  PaperStats

  PaperStats was a usage and spending analysis product for libraries. It harvested serials-usage information and related reports from publishers, consolidated the results, and supported assessment of content performance through measures such as cost per view. The product was beta tested with the USC Norris Medical Library.

• Scholarly document delivery

  PaperStore

  PaperStore allowed users to purchase full-text papers from thousands of journals from within Pubget search results. Reprints Desk supplied the document rights and delivery infrastructure for this service.

• Research document management

  PaperStream

  PaperStream was a web application for laboratory teams to share, store, and find documents. It brought together institutional subscriptions, purchased papers, and internal documents in an automated library-style database.

• Text mining

  Pubget text-mining technology

  Pubget's text-mining tools supported research and development teams seeking particular words, phrases, or text strings across large collections of scientific papers.

• Developer platform

  Pubget API

  The Pubget API exposed the company's search and article-linking technology for integration into third-party websites and software.

• 2012

  Copyright Clearance Center acquisitionM&A

  Background

  Pubget had developed search, linking, document-access, and library-analytics tools for scientific content.

  Action taken

  Copyright Clearance Center acquired Pubget and operated it as a wholly owned subsidiary.

  Aftermath

  The Pubget service continued for several years before being closed in 2017. The supplied sources do not provide transaction terms or financial details.

  Source

1. 1Pubgeten.wikipedia.org