A very interesting new development in the scholarly communication arena is DeepDyve, a service that rents journal articles at a mere $0,99. For this low price you have access to the article on their web site for 24 hours but you cannot download or print it. Interestingly enough some of the major TA publishers are collaborating with them and so are PLoS and Hindawi, two flagship OA publishers
Read more about it at http://www.deepdyve.com/ and try it out. Scholarly Kitchen calls it iTunes comes to Science Publishing and a lively debate about the issue is taking place there. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/10/29/deepdyve-itunes-comes-to-science-publishing/
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