From: William Park <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:05:15 -0800

Dear Jim,

I am happy to answer your question in my capacity as the CEO of DeepDyve,
although Mary Summerfield already did a marvelous job!

We provide instant and affordable access to 12 million scholarly research
articles to those not affiliated with a library whether they are or are not
affiliated with a society. However, our society partners have found that
affordable access to key information from DeepDyve has helped them reach
new users, and given them a valuable new revenue stream.  Unlike other
services, we are independent and not owned by any of the large publishers.
For $40 per month, subscribers can read as many articles as they like with
additional print-per-page and purchase options.  If you, or any other
members of the Medieval Academy of America, want to try out our service
free of charge for two weeks, with no obligation, then please visit
http://www.deepdyve.com and sign up today. Should you have any further
questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Warmest wishes,
Bill Park
CEO, DeepDyve Inc



On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:40 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Mary Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:50:23 +0000
>
> DeepDyve is a commercial service that aims for this market--in the
> science and technical fields. It's core concept is 'rental' of
> articles -- being able to read them and keep them in a 'library' for a
> monthly subscription fee.
> To do more the user pays a pay per view fee.
>
> SPIE has an agreement with DeepDyve for our journals and proceedings
> as we believe it is important to serve the community of scholarly and
> professional readers as widely as we can.
>
> Mary Summerfield
> SPIE
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 19:16:14 -0700
>
> As a member of the Medieval Academy of America, a learned society
> embracing several thousand scholars and students, I had message today
> that there is now a special price for such members to use JSTOR if
> they do not otherwise have access.  JPASS is the product name from
> JSTOR, which is sold normally for about $200, but the Academy is
> offering it to its members at $99/year.  "A $19.50 monthly plan is
> also available to those seeking short term JSTOR access."  There are
> folks for whom this will be very good news, though how many
> independent and unaffiliated scholars are actually paying dues to a
> learned society is an interesting question.  What strikes me most
> about this news is that there is price pressure even here.  On the one
> hand, JSTOR is mainly unique, and if I really want to read articles
> from fifty years ago in a variety of scholarly journals, I don't have
> miuch choice; but on the other hand, it competes for my attention with
> a million other things and as phone deals and netflix deals and Amazon
> Kindle deals get cheaper and cheaper, any resource that still wants
> that attention is going to have to pay, sorry for the wordplay,
> attention.
>
> Are there other such programs that aim to help independent and
> unaffiliated scholars?
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> ASU