Document "rental" service via DeepDyve, a deep web search engine

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Oct, 2009

Document rental service brings “deep web” content to the mainstream

Between The Lines – “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.”   

From Library Stuff blog
DeepDyve today unveiled the world's largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research. 
From a growing database spanning thousands of journals, DeepDyve now gives consumers and professionals access to more than 30 million articles for as
little as $0.99 per article...
From Reuters

Take a look at DeepDyve

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

Posted by Celia Walter | 21 May, 2007

BASE is the name of the multi-disciplinary search engine for scientifically relevant web resources which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library.

BASE is also available in German

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Academic Invisible Web: size

Posted by Celia Walter | 12 May, 2007

Lewandowski, Dirk and Mayr, Philipp (2006) Exploring the Academic Invisible Web.

NB The Invisible Web is often referred to as the Deep Web

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