DeepDyve

DeepDyve is a commercial website launched in late 2008 that provides access to mainly academic articles from a large range of commercial academic publishers. A novel aspect of DeepDyve's business model is that access is on a time-limited rental basis for web browser viewing, rather than the conventional buy-and-download access already provided by most academic publishers. In an interview with one of the company founders, the article rental concept is mainly pitched as a way of giving laypeople, unaffiliated with academic libraries, access to otherwise expensive scholarly articles.[1] Rental times range from 30 days to one year, depending on the plan chosen.[2]

Content

Major publishers have signed up to provide articles from their scientific journals, such as Springer,[3] the American Institute of Physics (AIP)[4] and Nature.[5]

DeepDyve's company website claims that over 12 million articles are available for rent at a fraction of the usual per-article purchase price.[6] In addition to per-article pricing, various subscription options are available.[7] DeepDyve provides free previews of usually at least the whole first page, while other publishers typically only provide the abstract. From June 2013 signed-in users can preview an entire article for free for five minutes.[2]

Technology

The current viewing interface (Feb 2012) for article renting is implemented by rendering the article pages as images on the screen. DeepDyve rental terms state that printing is prohibited. Technically the printing prohibition is implemented by rendering an opaque blank frame on top of the viewed article image when use of the browser print button is attempted.

References

  1. ↑ DeepDyve Does It Again: Fascinating Developments in Scholarly Publishing and Scientific Communication
  2. 1 2 Schwartz, Meredith (6 June 2013). "DeepDyve: The first five's free". LibraryJournal.com. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Springer content now available via DeepDyve's online rental service for scholarly publications
  4. ↑ AIP Partners with DeepDyve on Article Rental Pilot Program Scientific publisher embraces innovative business model
  5. ↑ NPG introduces mobile and article 'rental' access options. Press release. Nature Publishing Group. 5 January 2011.
  6. ↑ "Spring Subscriber Survey – results to share". DeepDyve. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  7. ↑ "Infovell DeepDyve". Intellogist. 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
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