Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Open science tools for scholarly literature search

 

 

           This post is intended to help the scientific research community and the library professionals involved in making every effort for enabling the research community in accessing more and more research results that are behind the paywall or beyond the paywall. 

While doing a literature search, not only the research papers are restricted to access due to the paywall, also some search platforms for scientific articles (like Web of Science and Scopus) are also required to have subscription licenses. There are institutions/ universities that are unable to get licenses due to less funding. In this case, Scientific discoveries are left undiscovered, which make the foundation of further research.

Here are some tools that help you discover relevant literature, quickly find open access versions of papers, and save citations.

 

ScienceOpen

 

ScienceOpen offers open access journal hosting services. It is an interactive research platform for scholars providing advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features. It is freely accessible for all and also offers promotional services within the platform for publishers and institutes. Search results display the type of publication, the number of citations and altmetrics scores, etc. and many filter features are also available.

 


Browser Extensions for Scholarly search

 

Open Access Button

 

It is an open source tool to deliver free, legal, full text articles instantly. When you enter the URL, DOI, title or citation, it delivers you instantly the free and open access version of an article by searching everywhere for example, preprint repositories, authors' personal page, Open access journals and from other sources. If they can't get the access then Open Access Buttons starts a request for the needed article from the authors and guide them for making it available for you and others who need the article.  

Open Access Button is also available as browser plug-in tool, button appears next to an article when a free version is available.

 

 

 

Unpaywall  

An Unpaywall is a project of Our Research that make free and open-source tools used worldwide, to make the research more open. It is like Open Science Button, a legal tool to search the scholarly literature but only available as a browser plug-in.


 


 "Unpaywall finds the kind of articles you'd see in peer-reviewed scholarly journals like Science or PLOS One, plus pre-publication versions of similar work from preprint repositories like arXiv. We harvest content directly from over 50,000 journals and open-access repositories from all over the world. We also use great open data from PubMed Centralthe DOAJCrossref (particularly their license info), and DataCite." (http://unpaywall.org/faq)

 

 

 

EndNote Click  

 Formerly known as Kopernio, EndNote Click is also a free browser extension tool to access full-text versions of articles. It claims to be faster than other plug-ins bypassing redirects and verification steps and provides one-click access to the PDFs.

 

 

 

 "EndNote Click harnesses your library subscriptions to get you the highest quality PDFs. When your subscriptions do not grant you access, EndNote Click will search for an open-access alternative from its vast database of Open Access articles." (https://kopernio.com/)

 

 

References:

  1. https://www.annaclemens.com/blog/open-science-tools-literature-search
  2. https://www.scienceopen.com/ 
  3. https://openaccessbutton.org/ 
  4. http://unpaywall.org/
  5. https://ourresearch.org/ 
  6. https://kopernio.com/ 

 



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