ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources

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ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources

Nathalie CornicDeputy Head of the Data, Network & Standards deptISSN International Centrenathalie.cornic@issn.org @ISSN_IC

UCL Centre for Publishing, LondonSeminar Discovery and Discoverability20th January, 2016

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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 involvedTop ten countriesIndia (1416)Brazil (1127)United States (816)United Kingdom (794)France (569)Poland (479)Germany (477)Russian Federation (450)Iran (Islamic Republic of) (448)

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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 sourcesIndexing/abstracting servicesATLA CPLI® & RDB® (37)CAB Abstracts (1201)CAS SciFinder® (345)EconLit (115)GeoRef (89)Global Health (1043)Linguistics Abstracts (74)MEDLINE® (497)PsycINFO® (141)Scopus (2626)

Journal indicatorsSJR (2013) (2626)SNIP (2013) (2626)Registries and archivesCatalogo (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 searchSubject access using UNESCO classification profile (UDC)

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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?

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ROAD & partnering registries

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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

– As it allows interoperability with other cultural fields (as a CIDOC-CRM extension).

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PRESSOO and the ISSN RegisterA 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 modelImproving interoperability with other datasetsPRESSOO 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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ROAD data model

PRESSoo allows us to build:• a simplified data model to enable

an RDF dump download• a rich data model aligned on

PRESSoo • the most popular ontologies are

used: FOAF, DC terms, SKOS, Schema.org

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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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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 Cornicnathalie.cornic@issn.org road@issn.org @ISSN_IChttp://fr.slideshare.net/ISSNIC40/presentations