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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by icelancer on Friday February 09, 2018 @06:43AM (#16339474)
Hadn't heard of DeepDyve and I'm always willing to look into paying for something using that type of model.

Out of five major journals in my discipline, four are "Preview Only."

What a surprise. "Huge list," indeed.

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by tzs on Friday February 09, 2018 @07:31AM (#16339701)
> Out of five major journals in my discipline, four are "Preview Only."

What discipline?

> What a surprise. "Huge list," indeed.

The journal list there lists ~13100 journals, of which ~9200 are available and ~3900 are preview only. Seems reasonable huge to me.

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by noddy1 on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:06PM (#16342417)
Just as spotify for music has almost everything, "spotify for journals" needs to have 80-90%+ coverage or it is an annoying waste of time.
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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by jamessb on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:55AM (#16353418)
It seems to be missing all of the ACS journals (a big chunk of chemistry) and IEEE (a big chunk of electrical engineering and computer science).

Also, I find the idea of merely 'renting' a paper objectionable. Deepdyve charges individually for PDF downloads, and otherwise only allows you to print 20 pages a month.

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