ROAD is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the UNESCO / Communication and Information Sector.
A presentation has been given by François-Xavier Pelegrin (Head of the Bibliographic Data Section, ISSN International Centre) at the UKSG 2014 Conference on Tuesday 15th April 2014.
An article published in “Research Information” about ROAD’s presentation at UKSG
2014 marks the 40th anniversary of ISSN Canada, the Canadian national centre for ISSN. Forty years of successful cooperation among ISSN centres, and the sustained growth of the ISSN Network is an accomplishment worthy of pride and celebration for Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
The two latest keepers (participating archiving agencies), the Scholars Portal and the Library of Congress, has now been added to the Keepers Registry. In this way, the number of titles listed in the Registry has greatly increased and, with the addition of the Scholars Portal from Canada, another country has been added to the geographical spread of keepers.
Mrs. Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the US ISSN Centre, has given a presentation about the ROAD project during the ALA-Midwinter meeting in January. ROAD is a new service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the UNESCO Communication and Information Sector. ROAD has been launched as a beta version in December 2013.
ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources
The Registry provides the Library of Congress (LoC) with opportunity to share information on the titles and digital content that it is archiving for the long term.
Challenges and goals of the PIE-J project by Regina Romano Reynolds, director of the US ISSN Center.
The new interface for SUNCAT (the Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community) is now available, it includes improved pre-search library and geographic limits, the ability to combine pre-search limits, and the introduction of post-search filters, links to the local catalogues of holding libraries.
