About Scholix
  • Scholix stands for "(a Framework for) Scholarly Link Exchange". It is the consensus achieved by a number of organisations — journal publishers, data centres, global service providers — to create an open global information ecosystem to collect and exchange links between research data and literature.
  • Scholix is not an organisation. It is an interoperability initiative to facilitate the sharing of information about the links between data and literature.
  • The Scholix recommendations are the output of the joint Research Data Alliance/ICSU World Data System Data Publishing Services Working Group.
  • In 2016, a sub-set of the recommendations and reporting materials of the Working Group were published as the Interoperability Framework Recommendations.
  • The Data Publishing Services Working Group was succeeded by the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange Working Group who were responsible for developing the Scholix schema.
  • A good overview article on Scholix and how to implement is 

    Cousijn, H., Feeney, P., Lowenberg, D., Presani, E. and Simons, N., 2019. Bringing Citations and Usage Metrics Together to Make Data Count. Data Science Journal, 18(1), p.9. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-009

  • People from the following organisations (amongst others) have been involved in the working group and related projects:

  • 3TU.Datacentrum
  • Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
  • Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)
  • CrossRef
  • DataCite
  • Elsevier
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
  • ICSU World Data System (ICSU-WDS)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA)
  • International Association of STM Publishers
  • Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • Mendeley Data
  • National Data Service OLDRADA Project
  • OpenAire AMKE
  • Institute of Information Science and Technology (ISTI, CNR)
  • PANGAEA
  • Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank
  • Research Data Alliance (RDA)
  • RMAP Project
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Springer Nature
  • Thomson Reuters
For more information on the Scholix initiative, please see Presentations.

If you want to cite Scholix

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Burton, A., Koers, H., Manghi, P., Stocker, M., Fenner, M., Aryani, A., La Bruzzo, S., Diepenbroek, M. and Schindler, U., 2017. The Scholix framework for interoperability in data-literature information exchange. D-Lib Magazine, 23(1/2), http://mirror.dlib.org/dlib/january17/burton/01burton.html.

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@article{burton2017scholix,
  title={The Scholix framework for interoperability in data-literature information exchange},
  author={Burton, Adrian and Koers, Hylke and Manghi, Paolo and Stocker, Markus and Fenner, Martin and Aryani, Amir and La Bruzzo, Sandro and Diepenbroek, Michael and Schindler, Uwe},
  journal={D-Lib Magazine},
  volume={23},
  number={1/2},
  year={2017},
  url={http://mirror.dlib.org/dlib/january17/burton/01burton.html},
  publisher={Corporation for National Research Initiatives}
}