The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) announced Monday that it had acquired Boston-based Pubget. Terms were not disclosed.
The Pubget online search engine, launched in 2008, lets users view full-text life-science articles from journals to which their institutions subscribe, or allows them to purchase articles directly. This full-text service contrasts with the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed database, which contains mainly abstracts and citations. (OCLC VP Lorcan Dempsey, at the American Library Association annual conference’s Top Tech Trends panel in 2010, highlighted Pubget as part of a trend toward offering more full-text materials electronically.)
CCC, a not-for-profit rights licensing organization based in Danvers, MA, launched a full-text article service last April at the Association of College & Research Libraries conference called Get It Now, which allows instant access to the full text of articles that a library might otherwise not be able to obtain quickly. There is a fee per article.
A CCC spokesman, when asked by LJ about whether the two services might be integrated in the future, did not provide specifics at this time.
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