The collaboration with Scholix is only the first step for Scopus in the area of research data. In October Scopus will release a link on the search results page to find related results on DataSearch, which is an Elsevier search engine specialized in searching research data. This will complement the current collaboration with Scholix which is limited to viewing data related to specific articles. Future collaboration with PlumX Analytics will also help define metrics around research data and their correlation with articles.  Scopus is looking forward to hearing from users to better understand the ways they would want to use research data and what they would expect from a service like Scopus. This will help develop a strong roadmap of services that will allow researchers to add datasets to their CVs; universities to showcase their data output as well as their article output; and funding bodies to evaluate proposals and measure success based also on research data, and not just publications. 

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The more publishers collaborate with Scholix, the easier it will be to connect publications with data and provide value around research data. If you are a publisher and would like to use the Scholix initiative to link scholarly articles in your database with datasets in data repositories, please join the Scholix Working Group (to make sure your needs/aspirations are noted) and then use the DLI API.