Document rental service brings "deep web" content to the mainstream
Summary: DeepDyve, a search engine that specializes in indexing the contents of documents published deep into a Web site, is announcing a Netflix-like service that allows users to "rent" documents such as medical journal articles on a per-use basis.
DeepDyve, a search engine that specializes in indexing the contents of documents published deep into a Web site, is announcing a Netflix-like service that allows users to "rent" documents such as medical journal articles on a per-use basis.
The company says that there's a market of more than 50 million "sophisticated consumers and professionals" known as "knowledge workers," who use the Web for research but that some of the best information for them is only available through expensive subscriptions that traditionally serve the academic or corporate worlds.
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DeepDyve has aggregated more 30 million journal articles that it is "renting" for 99 cents for 24 hours. There are also two subscription models - a $10 plan that provides access to 20 articles per month with viewing times of seven days or a $20 unlimited plan - read as many articles as many times as you'd like.
But it's not just the search capabilities. The service also provides you with things like personalized suggestions, bookmarks, alerts and related articles. For anyone who's ever had to do serious specialized research, you know that the Google results experience is hardly ideal, especially for discovering additional information related to a specific article.
The company is offering a 14-day free trial on the subscription plans to check out its library of articles.
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Writers?
original content, and how are they being paid for their efforts?
See you later SQL2008 Full Text Indexing?
If have a need to store & manage massive
numbers of documents (docs, images, videos,
pdfs, etc). Can I choose to host my documents
on Amazon's S3 & "rent" indexing services from
DeepDyve? If yes, how hard is it to integrate
these two services into the service provider's
portal. End user experience should not be
ignored in the process.
Rgds
Uday
RE: Document rental service brings
I can see this "document rental" type of service having the biggest market among researchers unaffiliated with universities. Are there many out there?
Just what we need -- more parasites!
To actually RESELL other people's content that was published freely.
Nothing like making a buck off content produced by others -- without giving them credit or even a single penny for it.
In the bricks and mortar world -- that would be called 'stealing'.
Parasites!
RE: Document rental service brings
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