diff --git a/docs/en_us/data/source/index.rst b/docs/en_us/data/source/index.rst
index 5a80663853..7ac1458ac6 100644
--- a/docs/en_us/data/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/en_us/data/source/index.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,15 @@
 
 edX Data Documentation
 ======================
-The following documents are targeted at those who are working with various data formats consumed and produced by the edX platform -- primarily course authors and those who are conducting research on data in our system. Developer oriented discussion of architecture and strictly internal APIs should be documented elsewhere.
+The following documents are targeted at those who are working with various data formats consumed and produced by the edX platform -- primarily course authors and those who are conducting research on data in our system. 
+
+* If you are a course author working with course XML, see :ref:`Course Data Formats`.
+
+* If you are a researcher working with data, see :ref:`Internal Data Formats`.
+
+Developer-oriented discussion of architecture and strictly internal APIs will be documented elsewhere.
+
+.. _Course Data Formats:
 
 Course Data Formats
 -------------------
@@ -33,6 +41,7 @@ Specific Problem Types
    course_data_formats/jsinput.rst
    course_data_formats/formula_equation_input.rst
 
+.. _Internal Data Formats:
 
 Internal Data Formats
 ---------------------