UCL Centre for Publishing, London
Seminar Discovery and Discoverability
20th January, 2016
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
nathalie.cornic@issn.org
@ISSN_IC
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A free subset of the ISSN Register
• A free service based on the ISSN Register
• Providing access to information on
≈13,500 online OA resources identified
by 89 ISSN Centres
• Developed late 2013 by the ISSN IC in
support of UNESCO policy promoting
open science through GOAP
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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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Selection criteria
• Open access to the whole content
of the resource
• No moving wall
• The resources comprise mainly
research papers
• The target is mostly researchers and
scholars
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5 types of resources
• Journals (12782)
• Academic repositories (235)
• Monographic series (182)
• Conference proceedings (124)
• Scholarly blogs (97)
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Number of OA resources WW
by thematic area and type
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National centres involved
Top ten countries
India (1416)
Brazil (1127)
United States (816)
United Kingdom (794)
France (569)
Poland (479)
Germany (477)
Russian Federation (450)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (448)
Spain (423)
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Partnering sources help us provide
quality insight into OA resources
• Selection
• Indexation
• Evalutation
• Preservation
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Coverage by external sources
Indexing/abstracting
services
Journal indicators
SJR (2013) (2626)
ATLA CPLI® & RDB® (37) SNIP (2013) (2626)
CAB Abstracts (1201)
CAS SciFinder® (345)
EconLit (115)
GeoRef (89)
Global Health (1043)
Linguistics Abstracts (74)
MEDLINE® (497)
PsycINFO® (141)
Scopus (2626)
Registries and archives
Catalogo (Latindex)
(1677)
DOAJ (6186)
PubMed Central®
(1171)
The Keepers (1190)
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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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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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How does it work?
Data source
Data source
processing
chain
Data source
submitted by ISSN IC
feeding
Feedingthe
the
enrichment
enrichmentDB
DB
Data query
Data retrieval
Bibliographic records
indexing chain
ISSN-L table
retrieval chain
Feeding the
enrichment DB
Automatic retrieval
of the ISSN-L table
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ROAD & partnering registries
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ROAD and linked data
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RDF dump with FRBROO and PRESSOO
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ROAD uses Schema.org markup
types
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ROAD uses Schema.org markup types
http://road.issn.org/issn/2331-1983
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FRBROO and PRESSOO
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
– As it allows interoperability with other cultural fields (as
a CIDOC-CRM extension).
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PRESSOO and the ISSN Register
A specialized data model 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...)
Providing a linked-data friendly data model
Improving interoperability with other datasets
PRESSOO for the ISSN registry
• Prepare the publication of (a subset of) the Register in the LOD
• Mapping of National Centres’ MARC records to PRESSOO may be
customized according to national practices
Now an official standard of the IFLA cataloguing section.
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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
http://road.issn.org
Nathalie Cornic
nathalie.cornic@issn.org road@issn.org
@ISSN_IC
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