ISSN: 2310-7529

The BelSU repository for digital content is among six repositories of Russia to be assigned an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 2310-7529

On the 3^rd of December, 2013, the International Centre, developing ROAD (the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources) assigned an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 2310-7529 to the open access repository for digital contents of Belgorod State National Research University.

In December, 2013, the ROAD platform (http://road.issn.org) was launched by ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. ROAD is an Open Access Scholarly Resources directory. Being an updating database, the BelSU digital repository was among first six Russian ones to be given an ISSN.

According to a webometric ranking provided by a Spanish Laboratory for cybermetrics, at the moment the Belgorod State National Research University repository for digital content is graded 4^th among 11 Russian scholar repositories and 665^th among 1650 world ones.