Enhancing access to scholarly publications with surrogate resources

Debarshi Kumar Sanyal (), Plaban Kumar Bhowmick (), Partha Pratim Das (), Samiran Chattopadhyay () and T. Y. S. S. Santosh ()
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Debarshi Kumar Sanyal: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Plaban Kumar Bhowmick: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Partha Pratim Das: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Samiran Chattopadhyay: Jadavpur University
T. Y. S. S. Santosh: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Scientometrics, 2019, vol. 121, issue 2, No 23, 1129-1164

Abstract: Abstract Digital libraries containing scholarly publications are common today. They are an invaluable source of information to students, researchers, and practitioners. However, many digital libraries expose only the article metadata like title, author names, publication date, and the abstract for free; access to full-text requires access toll. Given that journal subscription charges are sometimes prohibitive, many important publications remain beyond the access of researchers, especially in developing countries. While open access publication solves this issue, the hard reality is that many research papers are not currently available for free reading or download. In this paper, we present a novel approach to alleviate this problem. We present a technique to retrieve open access surrogates of a scholarly article when the latter is unavailable freely in a digital library. Surrogates are articles semantically close to the original articles, written by the same author(s) and give valuable insights into the paper being searched for; they address the same or a very similar problem using the same or very similar techniques. Our focus on approximate matches of scholarly articles distinguishes our application from many academic search engines. We run it on a large corpus of computer science papers and compare the results with human judgment. Experimental results show that our tool can indeed identify relevant OA surrogates of access-restricted papers.

Keywords: Scholarly publication; Open access; Academic search; Digital library; Approximate match (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03227-4

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