ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, provides access to a multidisciplinary selection of OA resources worldwide. As a free subset of the ISSN Registry, the directory aggregates data from partners (indexing services, registries, journal indicators). The main features of the service and the role of the ISSN as a matching key will be presented.
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ROAD:
ISSN as a key for determining the quality
and prominence of OA resources
Nathalie Cornic
Deputy Head of the Bibliographic Data Section
ISSN International Centre
nathalie.cornic@issn.org
@NCornic
UKSG 38th
Annual Conference
and Exhibition: Glasgow
30 March 2015 - 1 April 2015
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ROAD is a service based on the ISSN Register
with special focus on Open Access (scholarly)
e-journals
* developed by the ISSN International Centre in support
of UNESCO policy support for Open Access
* providing access to information on c.11,000 online OA
resources identified by an ISSN
ROAD/ Nathalie Cornic / ISSN IC/ nathalie.cornic@issn.org
What is ROAD ?
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Purposes of ROAD
•To help researchers identify and evaluate quality
OA resources identified by ISSN
•To support OA in countries belonging to ISSN
network
•To demonstrate new ways of using ISSN to linkTo demonstrate new ways of using ISSN to link
information from various sources.information from various sources.
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Faceted search
Subject access
using UNESCO
classification
profile (UDC)
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Coverage by external sources
Coverage by
indexing/abstracting services
ATLA CPLI® (4)
ATLA RDB® (28)
CAB Abstracts (1089)
CAS SciFinder® (345)
EconLit (98)
GeoRef (87)
Global Health (991)
Linguistics Abstracts (68)
Medline (487)
PsycINFO® (130)
Scopus (2426)
Coverage by journal
indicators
SJR (2013) (2426)
SNIP (2013) (2426)
Coverage by registries and
archives
Catalogo (Latindex) (1478)
DOAJ (5652)
PMC (1109)
The Keepers (1167)
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Using the ISSN from ROAD
Highlights the importance of the ISSN identifier
From a unique ISSN-based unambiguous title:
•To enable access (URL)
•To provide rich bibliographic information
•To check archival status
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Partnering sources help us provide
quality insight into OA resources
Selection
Indexation
Evaluation & metrics
Location and LT preservation programmes
We intend to develop data partners to exchange
metadata.
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Some External Sources
1. Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
2. The Keepers Registry
Both use the ISSN as a key data field. Each
has additional information, such as:
• Publication charges
• Business model
• Date of use of OA
• Archival status