ROAD:
ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to
aggregate quality, open access resources
Nathalie Cornic
Deputy Head of the Data, Network & Standards dept
ISSN International Centre
@ISSN_IC
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What is ROAD ?
• ROAD is a free service based on the ISSN Register
• With a special focus on Open Access (scholarly)
e-journals, and 4 other types of resources
•Developed by the ISSN International Centre in
support of UNESCO policy promoting Open
Access science
•Providing access to information on +13,500
online OA resources identified by an ISSN.
ROAD / UCL 2016 / Nathalie Cornic-ISSN IC/ nathalie.cornic@issn.org
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Purposes of ROAD
To help researchers identify and select quality
OA resources identified by ISSN
To support OA in countries belonging to ISSN
network
To demonstrate new ways of searching the ISSN
Register and linking information from various
sources
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How does it work?
•ROAD is fed by ISSN centres, national &
international, adding a dedicated code
•ISSN records are enriched by data taken from
external sources (journal indicators, indexingabstracting services, registries…)
•ISSN numbers are used as a matching key
crossing ISSN records / external databases
coverage lists of journals and other resources
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PRESSOO and the ISSN Register
A specialized and detailed model was needed to represent serials
and ongoing resources
•“features” (frequency, medium...)
•changes that affect them over the time (continuations,
absorptions, splits...)
•relationships they can have with other serials (linguistic editions...)
Provide a linked-data friendly data model
•To improve interoperability with other datasets
PRESSOO for the ISSN registry
•Prepare the publication of (a subpart of) the registry in the LOD
•Mapping of NCs’ MARC records to PRESSOO may be customized
according to national practices
Now an official standard of the IFLA cataloguing section.
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PRESSOO: an extension of FRBROO
FRBROO: object-oriented version of FRBR
PRESSOO : FRBROO for serials and other continuing
resources
–“An ontology which aims to represent the
underlying semantics of bibliographic information
about continuing resources, and more specifically
about periodicals”
FRBROO chosen as a reference standard
–For its object-oriented approach: convenient for
linked data
–As it is event-centric: to express the dynamic
nature of serials
ROAD
/ UCL 2016
Nathalie Cornic-ISSN
IC/ nathalie.cornic@issn.org with other cultural
–As
it /allows
interoperability
fields (as a CIDOC-CRM extension).
National centres involved
Top ten countries
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Partnering sources help us provide
quality insight into OA resources
Selection
Indexation
Evaluation & metrics
Location and LT preservation programmes
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Selection criteria
•Open access to the whole content of the
resource (free registration is accepted)
•No moving wall
•The resources comprise mainly research
papers
•The audience is mostly researchers and
scholars
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5 types of resources
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Number of OA resources WW by
thematic area and type
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What can you do with ROAD?
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Faceted search
Subject access
using UNESCO
classification
profile (UDC)
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Coverage by external sources
Indexing/abstracting
services
Journal indicators
Registries and archives
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ROAD & partnering registries
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to know whether a title is
being archived,
and by which archive …
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… and the details on what issues and volumes
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Our strengths
•5 types of OA resources worldwide.
•Identified by 89 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 for your attention
Nathalie Cornic
@ISSN_IC