In our participation at TREC 2016 Open Search Track which focuses on ad-hoc scientic literature search, we used Terrier, a modular and a scalable Information Retrieval framework as a tool to rank documents  ...  We used Divergence from Randomness (DFR) model, specically, the Inverse expected document frequency model for randomness, the ratio of two Bernoulli's processes for rst normalisation, and normalisation  ...  During our participation at TREC 2016, we submitted ocial runs for CiteSeerX and SSOAR to TREC Open Search Track.  ...