ISSN records are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus). [See the list of Data Sources: https://portal.issn.org/node/91]

Open access resources are accessible without any barriers, so the ROAD interface as well as the search and display functionalities take back some features accessible to subscribing users.
 

- ROAD search pages are limited to ISSN records describing open access resources,
 

- The results pages and the ISSN records are viewed from the ISSN portal,
 

- A ROAD logo indicates that the resource described is in open access.
 

- As a ROAD free user, you can access functionalities reserved to subscribing users:
 

No, we can only process the modification requests:

-      issued by the publisher of the resource or issued by the subscribers of the ISSN Portal;  

-      and/or concerning the URL of the resource or a typo to be corrected.

As a publisher, you wish to have your resource signalled as open access and integrated to ROAD.
 

10.7.1. Your publication has already an e-ISSN

This request will be dealt as any modification request. [See section 6.1 How to report an error or request an update on a record?]

Please note you have to be registered on the Extranet as a publisher, then you must claim for the resource and request a modification through the Report an error function.

Inclusion criteria To be listed on ROAD (Directory of Open Access Resources), a resource must meet the following criteria.

Any false declaration is an exclusion criterion which prevails over all other criteria. 

ROAD is mostly used to identify OA resources and to access bibliographic description of these publications, but also to discover unpublished material lying in academic repositories. ROAD is mainly used by library and information specialists (45 %) for metadata re-use, and by scholars (35%) for research purposes.

• To provide a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.
   
• To give an overview of the Open Access scholarly production worldwide (for statistics purposes for instance).

To provide information about the quality and prominence of OA resources, mentioning by which services they are covered.

Complete ISSN data about open access scholarly publications included in ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) are accessible for free via the Free Access Portal.

As the ISSN network covers the whole world and identifies any type of continuous resources, the geographic and linguistic coverages of ROAD aim to be comprehensive.

There are 5 types of multidisciplinary, open access resources in ROAD: there are mostly journals, but also monographic series, scholarly blogs, academic repositories and conferences proceedings.