Scholarly Literature & Data interlinking.
Follow the research path of publications and data, authors, institutions, and so much more.
ScholeXplorer is a service that accepts scholarly works metadata information, about publications-data or data-data links, from validated sources.
It enables building and clearing of deduplicated information on the OpenAIRE Graph and provides access to it.
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ScholeXplorer is OpenAIRE's Scholix hub.
Back in 2016, OpenAIRE worked closely with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the International Council for Science World Data System (ICSU-WDS) to create Scholix. The vision was to create a universal interlinking service and thereby, a multi-hub interoperability framework. Hubs are (existing) services that collect and aggregate information about links from their respective communities. The framework respects existing community-specific practices while enabling interoperability among the hubs by specifying a common information model and open exchange protocols. In 2023, the Scholix WG work was combined with the Open Science Graphs Interest Group (OSG IG).
Why ScholeXplorer.
Every research object possesses hundreds of metadata information. To enable scholarly works discovery, analysis, management of data, it is necessary to connect and relate, metadata among publications, datasets and other research products. Therefore, populate and enable the creation of a rich graph network with all interconnections and relations.
How to benefit from ScholeXplorer.
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Content Providers
Validate your content and connect.
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Scholarly Publishers
Establish links between articles and datasets.
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Open Science Aggregators
Get consistent metadata information.
ScholeXplorer in numbers
+975M
Scholix Relationships
ScholeXplorer provides relationships in Scholix metadata format between 40M datasets and 24M publications.
+83M
Unique Identifier
ScholeXplorer resolves metadata related to different persistent identifier.
+1600
Data Sources
Publications, research data, software, and other research products are aggregated and uploaded to the OpenAIRE Graph via trusted sources.
+25%
Relationships growth
From December 2021 to June 2023.
+24M
Deduplicated publications
+40M
Deduplicated datasets
+230M
Publication-Dataset links
+2K
Relationship-Software links
+536M
Dataset-
Dataset links
Case Studies.
Read about real cases where metadata information from validated sources is interlinked.
PROVIDE your content.
Interlink scholarly works metadata.