Some views from me, and comments on this blog post from researchers may be of interest:
http://blogs.nature.com/franknorman/2009/11/10/not-diving-but-skimming-a-new-source-for-articles
Frank
At 11:38 06/05/2010, you wrote:
>Hello there,
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>I was wondering if anyone has any comments/opinions on DeepDyve? We are
>considering whether we should participate and there are a few areas we'd
>like to investigate. See website:
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>http://www.deepdyve.com/
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>In particular, does anyone use DeepDyve regularly for research? If so,
>how do you find it? Is there demand for more content to be included in
>DeepDyve? We're trying to determine what type of users/researchers use
>DeepDyve - whether it is more for the general public, or indeed for
>academic researchers? We wonder whether we should be reaching out to
>other researchers through this manner, or not.
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>What is the general opinion about us participating if we don't enable
>articles to be rented? But simply have content indexed on the site?
>Would this be beneficial? Do users want to rent articles? Is it
>attractive to be able to read an article online without being able to
>print/download it?
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>Any feedback anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated!
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>Many thanks,
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>Helen
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>Helen Duce
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