DeepDyve


DeepDyve is a commercial website launched in late 2010 that provides access to mainly scientific and scholarly articles from a large range of commercial and non-commercial academic publishers. A novel aspect of DeepDyve's business model is that access is on an affordable, online 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 researchers unaffiliated with academic libraries, access to otherwise expensive scholarly articles. Similar to other 'rental' or online access services such as Spotify and Netflix, DeepDyve charges a monthly or annual subscription.

Content

Over 150 major publishers have signed up to provide articles from their scientific journals, such as Springer-Nature, Oxford University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, IEEE and many more.
DeepDyve's company website claims that over 25 million articles from more than 15,000 peer-reviewed journals are available for rent at a fraction of the usual per-article purchase price. In addition to per-article pricing, various subscription options are available. DeepDyve provides free previews of usually at least the whole first page, while other publishers typically only provide the abstract.
In 2020, Elsevier did not renew its contract with DeepDyve. The 750 Elsevier journals previously on offered ceased to be available on DeepDyve on April 22, 2020.

Technology & Features

The current viewing interface for article renting is implemented by rendering the article pages as images on the screen. In addition to viewing the full-text article through a browser, subscribers also have the ability to print up to 20 pages of any article per month, add highlighting and annotations to an article, and organize their findings into project folders.