  With the shifting focus of organizations and governments towards digitization
of academic and technical documents, there has been an increasing need to use
this reserve of scholarly documents for developing applications that can
facilitate and aid in better management of research. In addition to this, the
evolving nature of research problems has made them essentially
interdisciplinary. As a result, there is a growing need for scholarly
applications like collaborator discovery, expert finding and research
recommendation systems. This research paper reviews the current trends and
identifies the challenges existing in the architecture, services and
applications of big scholarly data platform with a specific focus on directions
for future research.
