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ROAD, the Academic Open-Access Resource service, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector. Launched as a beta on 16 December 2013, ROAD was developed in 2014 (extending the network, enhancing features, etc.).

ROAD provides free access to a subcategory of the ISSN registry. This subcategory includes bibliographical records that describe academic Open Access resources which are assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network: reviews, conference proceedings, and academic repositories. ROAD records are exportable in MARC XML format and are available in the three RDF formats (bag, sequence, and alternative).

Bibliographic records are enriched, when appropriate, with metadata indexing and abstracting citation databases, registries, and journal indexes of the resource network.

ROAD has four objectives:
 * To provide a single point of access to freely-available academic resources published on the Web;
 * To provide information on OA resources' quality and relevance, or, eventually, to indicate which journals' services or indices are covered;
 * As such, and once the ROAD network has been developed, to obtain an overall feel of worldwide OA academic production (for statistical purposes, for example);
 * To propose new ways of using ISSNs to implement information from various sources.