Orkov:
(subscription $4.99/6 months)
Feature wise, Orkov is a better option, however it comes with a big catch. The app itself can be installed for free. However when first starting the app, some telling signs are showing up: it requires you to agree to a long license agreement. Then after two weeks, your trial period suddenly ends (happened to us halfway through writing this review) and you need to buy an expensive subscription to continue using the app, of which the cost is only mentioned once you start the subscribing process.
There is no iPad version and EZproxy is not supported. As we did not opt to buy the subscription, we weren’t able to further review the app’s interface, although we can mention the app crashed a few times in the short period we were able to run it.
iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orkov/id336927484?mt=8
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According to this tweet, NCBI is working on a new PubMed Mobile right now. http://twitter.com/#!/ncbi_pub…
This is very interesting — we’d love for you to comment here or send us an email when they go live with their PubMed mobile app
Nice review, but what about: Papers and PubGet?
We’ll have a review of papers publishing next week. It’s a pretty
comprehensive app, and provides a lot more functionality then these
apps, as the conclusion of this review stated.
I work at Pubget, and per the previous comment, I’d be happy to provide you with more information about our mobile site. Our mobile site, just like our website, http://www.pubget.com, directly connects researchers to all the papers they have access to- either through their institution, or open access content. Basically, whenever possible, they get the PDF right away. As it is a website, not an app, it is free. You just need to have your institution activated to search your subscriptions- which is also free for non-profits and universities. Feel free to email me at: wkmetz[at]pubget[dot]com for more info.
Thanks Whitney for this information — very interesting. The nice thing about the webapp is the fact that it will work on all platforms.
Mobile PubMed was launched yesterday: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/…
Thanks for this tip! We did a story about it yesterday based on your comment!
Hi guys! I wonder if you might consider doing a review of PubSavvy as well (http://www.pubsavvy.com, or http://itunes.apple.com/us/app… in iTunes). I created PubSavvy since I search PubMed frequently for my “day job,” and other apps didn’t have some key features I wanted, like the ability to select from a list instead of one-by-one, or refine searches based on some handy limits / pre-saved search strings. We’ve just released an update and are already working on the next version, so I would be eager to hear your feedback and suggestions. Thanks!