Scholarly Literature & Data interlinking

ScholeXplorer is a service that accepts publications-data or data-data links from validated sources, for science and research actors, by building a de-duplicated graph and providing access to it.

  • For
    Providers | Research Communities | Research Groups | Research Infrastructure Managers | Research Managers | Resource Managers | Provider Managers
  • TRL
    9 - actual system proven in operational environment
  • Access Type
    Virtual | Remote
  • Access Mode
    Free
  • Owned by
    OpenAIRE
  • Provided by
    OpenAIRE
  • Funded by
    The framework programme for research and innovation (H2020)
  • Terms of use

ScholeXplorer is a service that provides access to the largest collection of Open Access (CC-BY) citations between articles and datasets, datasets and datasets, as exposed by Crossref, DataCite, EMBL-EBI, and OpenAIRE. Links (and objects) are provided by data sources managed by publishers, data centers, or other organizations providing services to store and manage links between data sets and publications. Scholexplorer aggregates link metadata harvested from the data sources and out of these, it builds harmonised and de-duplicated graphs of scholarly objects. The graph is openly accessible (CC-0) via search REST APIs that return links in Scholix format.


Benefits

Enables the discovery of information
Provides links between dataset and publications
Evidence based
Calculations of links are based on scientific principles
Trustable & Accurate all in one place
Performs deduplication of scholarly outputs with accuracy avoiding any misleads
Dynamic projection of information
Information is updated on the fly and users can update their database with current information
Increased interoperability
Is based on standards and can be used by many services
Broader visibility
Scholarly objects can be found more easily through their interconnections

Features

Automations & Global Openness

Information is automatically updated for global scholarly objects, promoting openness

Based on standards

Uses a Persistent Identifier Resolution and Scholix format

Seamless integrations

Runs smooth with other services, such as the OpenAIRE Research Graph

Programmatic access

Exposes programmatic access to scholix links (API) via a number of methods, access by entity, by relationship

User friendly

Provides a visual interface for querying and exploring links

Intelligent linking

Provides the basis for the intelligent linking of entities

Used in

Related services

OpenAIRE Graph
An intelligent gateway to scholarly communication

The OpenAIRE Graph is a collection of interlinked research objects that aggregates metadata records from more than 70K scholarly communication sources from all over the world for researchers, service providers, research managers and policy makers, by following a participatory approach.

Use Cases

OpenAIRE Service Catalogue receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under OpenAIRE-Advance (No. 777541) and OpenAIRE Nexus (No. 101017452)