UKSGLive: ROAD: the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources

"ROAD is a free service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. It complements UNESCO’s Global Open Access Portal (GOAP). 60,000 – 65,000 new resources identified each year. Includes databases, websites, loose-leaf items. ISSN established by UNESCO and the French Government. ISSN does not assess the quality of resources – it just identifies them ... ROAD is a database of bibliographic data. It contains ISSN records which have been enriched by information on journal quality. This is done by matching the ISSN number with external sources, e.g. DOAJ, SCOPUS. IRs are also listed if they have an ISSN.  It serves three major purposes are: [1] Providing a single access point to various types of online scholarly resources published as open access. [2] Uses the ISSN as key identifier to aggregate data about the quality and reputation of OA resources [3]  Gives an overview of open access scholarly content worldwide ..."