DeepDyve Launches iTunes Store-like Service for Science Papers
Today, a company called DeepDyve launched the largest online rental service for scientific papers, which allows users to rent any article for just 99 cents. Journal articles currently trend toward the obscene ($30 or more), unless you're the lucky dude with a password for a university library. DeepDyve saw an opening in the market and made deals with major scientific publishers to stock 30 million (and growing) articles of tech, med, and scientific interest. DeepDyve is part of a greater trend of getting scientific info back to the hardworking taxpayers who funded it. Just last year, the National Institutes of Health decreed that NIH-supported research had to be published free to everyone within a year of journal publication. And although DeepDyve isn't always free, it's improves access. So far, they seem to be the only major player on the scene. "A fragmented...