{"id":1941,"date":"2018-02-22T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:45:45","slug":"issn-and-doaj-a-renewed-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2018\/02\/22\/issn-and-doaj-a-renewed-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"ISSN and DOAJ: a renewed partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOAJ is delighted to announce the renewal of its partnership with ISSN. DOAJ is heavily reliant on <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.issn.org\/\">issn.org<\/a> (the ISSN database) as having <a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/publishers#issns\">a fully registered and confirmed ISSN<\/a> is one of the first checks that the Editorial Team undertakes when considering applications. For DOAJ, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issn.org\/understanding-the-issn\/what-is-an-issn\/\">obtaining an ISSN<\/a> for a journal is the first of many steps that a publisher can take to show that a journal intends to adhere to Best Practice.<\/p>\n<p>As well as using the ISSN database as a reference point, DOAJ and ISSN are committed to assist each other in improving the quality of each database. DOAJ will send corrections to ISSN; ISSN will help ensure that DOAJ always has correct and up-to-date ISSNs. Furthermore, DOAJ metadata is used to enrich the ISSN&#8217;s daughter service, ROAD.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/road.issn.org\/\">ROAD, Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources<\/a>, is a service which provides:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;free access to those ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the\u00a0ISSN Network\u00a0(89 National Centres worldwide + the International Centre), are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DOAJ is delighted to work in partnership with ISSN and is looking forward to a continued fruitful collaboration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOAJ is delighted to announce the renewal of its partnership with ISSN. DOAJ is heavily reliant on issn.org (the ISSN database) as having a fully registered and confirmed ISSN is one of the first checks that the Editorial Team undertakes when considering applications. For DOAJ, obtaining an ISSN for a journal is the first of&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[618,620],"tags":[284,449],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-update","category-press-release","tag-issn","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}