SciX Libraries

SciX Libraries are designed to help you create and organize collections of bibliographic records. You can use them to keep track of sources for an article, build your CV, or share references with colleagues.

Please note: SciX Libraries are available only to registered users. If you don't have an account yet, head over to the sign-up page to get started.

Creating and editing a library

There are two ways to create an SciX library:

From the search results page, select your relevant papers, and select Bulk Actions and then Add to library. Fill in a library name and press submit.
Go the My Account drop down and select SciX Libraries. Press the Add New Library button.

It is possible to modify the name and description of the library you have created. To do this, simply navigate to the SciX Libraries page from the My Account drop down, at the top right of the web interface. Once there, you can select your library of interest, and click the gear icon to modify the attributes you would like to change.

To delete any of the records in your library, first select the record you want to remove, then click the Delete button. To delete the entire library, click the gear icon, then select the “delete library” button. Once deleted, a library is gone forever, so click with caution!

Making your library public and managing permissions

You can make your library publicly viewable to non-SciX users. First, navigate to SciX Libraries page from the My Account drop down, then click on the library you’d like to make public. Click on the gear icon to access the library settings, then toggle Make library public? and click Save to make it public. This button generates a unique URL that you can give to people to view your library. You have the option to make your library private again in the future, in the same part of the interface. By default, all libraries are private.

You can also add collaborators to a library to allow other users to view, edit, and/or administrate your library. Available permissions:

Read Only: Can view the contents of a private library
Read & Write: Can view a library and add/remove records to it
Admin: Can view a library, add/remove records, edit the library name and description, and add/remove other collaborators

To add a collaborator:

Click the gear icon and scroll to the Collaborators section.
Fill out the email address of the user you’d like to add as a collaborator (they must have an SciX user account under this email address) and choose their permission level.
Click Add Collaborator to finish adding the user. The user will be emailed to notify them of their updated permissions.

Editing collaborators’ permissions or revoking their access can be done directly from the Manage Access tab.

Note that you must be the library owner or have admin permissions to add, edit, or remove collaborators.

Set Operations

Set operations allow you to perform operations on one or more libraries. To access these, click the Operations button in the upper right of the main page listing all of your libraries.

The Operations button will open the Library Operations window, where you can select one of the available set operations:

Union: take the union of the primary and all of the secondary libraries. The result, which includes all papers in any of the input libraries, is saved to a new library
Intersection: take the intersection of the primary and all of the secondary libraries. The result, which includes only papers present in all of the input libraries, is saved to a new library
Difference: take the difference between the primary and all of the secondary libraries. The result, which includes papers present in the primary library but in none of the secondary libraries, is saved to a new library
Copy: copy the contents of the source library into the target library. The target library is not emptied first; use the empty operation on the target library first in order to create a duplicate of the source library in the target library
Empty: empty the source library of its contents (no secondary library is needed)

After selecting the set operation, select the primary (or source) library, and any secondary (or target) libraries, as needed. Note that more than one secondary library is allowed when taking the union, intersection, or difference; add another secondary library as needed.

You may also choose to supply a new library name for the result of the union, intersection, or difference operations. If no name is supplied, a default name will be used, which can be edited after the library is created.

Visualisations, Metrics, and Exports

Like the main search interface, you can make visualisations, look at metrics, and create exports for the bibcodes within your library.

To do so, simply navigate to your SciX Library via the button under My Account and then click View as search results to access the Explore menu, including visualizations and metrics, and the Bulk Actions menu to export the library.

For details on these features, look at the main help pages.