Japan Science and Technology Agency

SSP Annual MeetingJun. 7th, 2007

2E;Navigating the Japanese Market

Toshiaki Uematsu

The JST Bibliographic Database Approach for Access to E-Journals

http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/index.html

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Mission of JSTJST’s mission is to promote science and technology in J

apan by conducting a broad range of activities.

Content of Activities Creating advanced technology Promoting business using advanced technology Promoting dissemination of scientific and technologic

al information Researcher exchange and research support Promoting understanding of science and technology b

y the public

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JST activities:1. To build and maintain bibliographic and

factual databases to construct the foundation of S&T activities.

2. To make and disseminate databases of resources on researchers, research institutions and research resources.

3. To aid the digitization and publication of electronic journals of Japanese academic societies.

Promoting dissemination of S&T information

JST is the major S&T information dissemination center of Japan

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Overview of STI Activities by JSTLiterature DatabasesLiterature Databases

Research Information DatabasesResearch Information Databases Factual Databases & OthersFactual Databases & Others

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* Commercial databases (All services are charged)

** Partially charged (fulltext may require subscription and charge)**

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Literature Databases Retrieval system for JST bibliographic databa

se over 20 million academic documents over 4 million fulltext links via CrossRef

E-Journal site over 100 thousand fulltext documents (only t

hose published by the Japanese Society)

one of the Link Resolvers Navigation to CrossREF, J-STAGE, PubMed, C

hemport (STN; CAPlus)

Flow of JST bibliographic database creation

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<E-Journal,etc>

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Providing information

JSTPlus

JMEDPlus

JST7580To archive center

Archive Center

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User

Number of collections Japanese:12,000 Journals : 9,500 Others : 2,500

Foreign : 4,600 Journals : 3,300 Others : 1,300

Abs.&Ind.making

AbstractIndex

Article title,Author,Vol., No., Pages

Number of titles Japanese:10,500 Journals : 8,000 Others : 2,500

Foreign : 2,600 Journals : 2,600 Others : 0

Number of indexes Total :958,000 Japanese:615,300 Foreign :342,700

Number of abstracts Total :635,400 Japanese:296,100 Foreign :339,300

Gathering resources

Number of bibliographies Total :1,055,900 Japanese: 625,700 Foreign : 430,200

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the trends in the number of records and number of collections (1981-2005)

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JDreamII to fulltext link

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survery to JDreamII users

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[Q] What kinds of resources do you find essential in searching for articles? (n = 1390)

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survery to JDreamII users(cont.)[Q] What kinds of resources do you find essential in searching for articles?(n = 1390) educational institutions and research institutes place greater importance on

foreign journals medical institutions, government offices, and corporations place greater

importance on Japanese journals

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JST Bibliographic Database Maintenance Advisory Committee

Foreign Journal Collecting Principles for the year 2007 continue coverage of journals already indexed widen the coverage of basic science field journals with

high citation counts widen the coverage of life science and agricultural scie

nce field journals starting from those with the highest citation counts

expand the coverage to include resources not available on other databases

include journals that publish the research results of Japanese researchers