Using the Research Archive

The DeepDyve Research Archive (available with our Enterprise Plans) is an online repository of PDFs that your team has purchased—even before signing up with DeepDyve. You supply us with your purchased PDFs, and they are available for review, reading, download, and annotation by anyone on your team, right in the browser.

Getting started with Research Archive

The first thing you need to use the Research Archive is an enterprise account. Don't have one? Contact us! For enterprise users, you can deliver us your existing library of PDFs as compressed ZIP files. Each zip should be no more than 10 GBs; you may upload multiple ZIPs if needed.

Create a compressed ZIP file — Apple users

Select your files, right click, and choose "Compress":

Create a compressed ZIP file — Windows users

Select all PDFs to send. Right click on the selection of PDFs, click 'Send To > Compressed (zipped) Folder':

Go to DeepDyve's document upload page

Once you've created your ZIP file, go to https://www.deepdyve.com/upload. You will have to log in by entering the same email address and password you normally use to login to DeepDyve. You'll be presented with a screen where you can upload your files:

Wait for the import to finish

Please wait to see the green 'Success' check mark appear before leaving the upload screen, even if it appears that it is 100% complete. This may take a few minutes depending on the size of your ZIP file. Also, don't let your computer go to sleep as the process will stop and need to be restarted.

Notify your account manager

Once your ZIP file has been uploaded let your account manager know. We review the files, process your PDF, and finalize the setup of your Research Archive. 

Please note that part of the process of adding your PDFs to your DeepDyve Research Archive is automatically extracting and identifying the article title and DOI. Given the many ways PDFs are written, there is no foolproof system for extracting this info so there may be an occasional error along the way or some of your PDFs may not be imported at all.

The articles you upload will be available to your users only; no other DeepDyve users will have access to them.

Adding new articles to the Research Archive

1. When you purchase PDFs from a DeepDyve partner, they will show up automatically in your Research Archive. 
2. If you purchase from a publisher with whom we don't have a relationship, we use a document delivery service to get the article for us. You will get an email from our partner with a link to download your document. You can then add this to the Research Archive in the same way as above.
3. If you acquire articles from other sources, follow the upload process above.

Viewing your Research Archive

To see articles in your Research Archive, you can just search using the top search bar. Articles from the archive will show up at the top of results:

You can also go directly to your Research Archive by hitting the link under the search bar or at the bottom of the My Library side bar:

Once in the Research Archive you can search for particular articles, download them, or open them for reading in our enhanced reader. Articles can be put in folders and annotated like any other DeepDyve articles.

Downloading articles from the Research Archive

Article PDFs that have been uploaded to your Research Archive or purchased by your team through DeepDyve can be downloaded at no cost: