Key Points

Intro to SciX and FAIR principles


  • Open science is a collaborative culture that shares research artifacts and knowledge to accelerate scientific knowledge development.
  • The FAIR principles provide a framework for making scientific artifacts, especially data, more discoverable and usable.
  • SciX makes data Findable by assigning unique, persistent identifiers and indexing rich metadata.
  • SciX ensures Accessibility through standardized retrieval protocols and a robust API.

Basic Searches in SciX


  • SciX enables effective author and keyword searches with powerful synonym expansion.
  • Facet filters help narrow down results by author variants, institutional affiliation, and publication date.
  • The abstract view provides in-depth details and links to additional resources.

Literature Exploration in SciX


  • SciX offers powerful tools that operate on sets of documents to assist you in analyzing the literature.
  • Similar() identifies items that are textually similar: find more like ….
  • Useful() analyzes reference lists: what will help me with ….
  • Reviews() analyzes citation lists: what has this contributed to …
  • The Paper Network groups papers topically through their references: how could I narrow my topic? what am I missing?
  • The Author Network identifies groups through co-authorship: what collaborations are working in this field? what is that lab producing?

SciX and ORCiD


  • SciX encourages authors to identify themselves and claim their work with ORCiDs.
  • Users can search SciX for people using ORCiDs.
  • Users can use SciX search tools to find their papers without ORCiDS and claim them.
  • SciX will communicate users’ claims to ORCiD.