“To Mediate, or Not Mediate, That Is the Question”: Setting Up Get It Now at Furman University Libraries

In late spring 2013, Furman Library set up unmediated Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) access to our pay-per-view journals through Get It Now. Working with the CCC, and EBSCO, Furman set up a custom link to allow students unmediated access to titles previously available only through interlibrary loan or via mediated pay-per-view access. On Tuesday May 21, 2013, we began offering unmediated access to journal articles. Since that time, Furman students, faculty, and staff have directly ordered numerous articles through Get It Now.