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Assessing the Effectiveness of Open Access Finding Tools
Information Technology and Libraries ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-09-15 , DOI: 10.6017/ital.v38i3.11009
Teresa Auch Schultz , Elena Azadbakht , Jonathan Bull , Rosalind Bucy , Jeremy Floyd

The open access (OA) movement seeks to ensure that scholarly knowledge is available to anyone with internet access, but being available for free online is of little use if people cannot find open versions. A handful of tools have become available in recent years to help address this problem by searching for an open version of a document whenever a user hits a paywall. This project set out to study how effective four of these tools are when compared to each other and to Google Scholar, which has long been a source of finding OA versions. To do this, the project used Open Access Button, Unpaywall, Lazy Scholar, and Kopernio to search for open versions of 1,000 articles. Results show none of the tools found as many successful hits as Google Scholar, but two of the tools did register unique successful hits, indicating a benefit to incorporating them in searches for OA versions. Some of the tools also include additional features that can further benefit users in their search for accessible scholarly knowledge.

中文翻译:

评估开放获取查找工具的有效性

开放访问(OA)运动旨在确保任何可以访问Internet的人都能获得学术知识,但是如果人们找不到开放版本,则免费在线获取该知识就没什么用了。近年来,已经有一些工具可以通过在用户点击付费墙时搜索文档的开放版本来帮助解决此问题。这个项目的目的是研究这些工具中的四种在相互之间以及与Google Scholar相比时的有效性,而Google Scholar长期以来一直是查找OA版本的来源。为此,该项目使用“打开访问按钮”,“ Unpaywall”,“ Lazy Scholar”和“ Kopernio”来搜索1000篇文章的打开版本。结果显示,没有一个工具能像Google学术搜索那样找到成功的匹配次数,但是其中两个工具确实记录了独特的成功匹配,表示将它们合并到OA版本搜索中会有所帮助。其中一些工具还包含其他功能,这些功能可以使用户在搜索可访问的学术知识时进一步受益。
更新日期:2019-09-15
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