road directory of oa resources / issn international centre - uksg2015
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ROAD:ISSN as a key for determining the quality
and prominence of OA resources
Nathalie CornicDeputy Head of the Bibliographic Data SectionISSN International [email protected] @NCornic
UKSG 38th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Glasgow30 March 2015 - 1 April 2015
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ROAD is a service based on the ISSN Registerwith 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/ [email protected]
What is ROAD ?
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5 types of resources
•Journals (10,535)•Academic repositories (221)
•Monographic series (107)
•Conference proceedings (105)•Scholarly blogs (55)
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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 link To 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 sourcesCoverage by indexing/abstracting servicesATLA 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 indicatorsSJR (2013) (2426)
SNIP (2013) (2426)
Coverage by registries and archivesCatalogo (Latindex) (1478)DOAJ (5652)PMC (1109)The Keepers (1167)
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Using the ISSN from ROADHighlights 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
SelectionIndexationEvaluation & metricsLocation and LT preservation programmes
We intend to develop data partners to exchange metadata.
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Some External Sources1. 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
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to know whether a title is being archived,and by which archive …
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Our strengths 5 types of OA resources worldwide. Identified by 88 ISSN national centres
worldwide. 17 partnering registries, metrics,
indexing/abstracting services:
ISSN is used as a matching key
use, influence, promimence, quality
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Thank you !http://road.issn.org
Nathalie [email protected] or [email protected]
@NCornic
Please visit us at ISSN stand 33
ROAD/ Nathalie Cornic / ISSN IC/ [email protected]