Deepdyve
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Deepdyve is a search engine which targets the "invisible web" or "deep web," the portions not commonly accessed by major web search engines. It currently focuses on scientific, technical and medical literature, with plans to expand subject coverage.
On October 27, 2009, Deepdyve announced the beginning of a "rental" service for journal articles, as opposed to the traditional subscription models. Under traditional models, users wishing to view the full text of an interesting article must either subscribe to the journal itself, or pay a rather substantial fee to the publisher to download the individual article copy. "Renting" an article through the Deepdyve service will allow researchers to view article full text for a much smaller fee, although readers will not be able to copy, paste, save, take screenshots, or otherwise capture the article's content for long term use or storage. This service can be especially beneficial to knowledge workers without institutional access to major fulltext databases. At launch, 25 publishers offered their articles for "rent" through Deepdyve.[1]
An in-depth review of the Deepdyve article rental model is provided by Marydee Ojala of Searcher magazine, at http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/DeepDyves-RenttoOwn-Service-57680.asp.
The Deepdyve search engine and article rental site is available at
Sources
- ↑ Ojala, Marydee. "DeepDyve’s Rent-to-Own Service." October 29, 2009. InfoToday's Newsbreaks feature, http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/DeepDyves-RenttoOwn-Service-57680.asp. Accessed on October 29, 2009.
