Japan Science and Technology Agency

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The JST Bibliographic Database Approach for
Access to E-Journals
SSP Annual MeetingJun. 7th, 2007 2ENavigating
the Japanese Market Toshiaki Uematsu

• Japan Science and Technology Agency

http//www.jst.go.jp/EN/index.html
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Mission of JST

• JSTs mission is to promote science and
  technology in Japan by conducting a broad range
  of activities.
• Content of Activities
• Creating advanced technology
• Promoting business using advanced technology
• Promoting dissemination of scientific and
  technological information
• Researcher exchange and research support
• Promoting understanding of science and technology
  by the public

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Promoting dissemination of ST information

• JST activities
• To build and maintain bibliographic and factual
  databases to construct the foundation of ST
  activities.
• To make and disseminate databases of resources on
  researchers, research institutions and research
  resources.
• To aid the digitization and publication of
  electronic journals of Japanese academic
  societies.

JST is the major ST information dissemination
center of Japan
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Overview of STI Activities by JST
Literature Databases
Commercial databases (All services are charged)
Partially charged (fulltext may require
subscription and charge)
Research Information Databases
Factual Databases Others
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Literature Databases

• Retrieval system for JST bibliographic database
• over 20 million academic documents
• over 4 million fulltext links via CrossRef
• E-Journal site
• over 100 thousand fulltext documents (only those
  published by the Japanese Society)
• one of the Link Resolvers
• Navigation to CrossREF, J-STAGE, PubMed, Chemport
  (STN CAPlus)

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Flow of JST bibliographic database creation
Gathering information
Database creation
Providing information
ltphotocopy servicegt
Bibliography making
Gathering resources
Data Adoption
Bib.data
Article title, Author, Vol., No., Pages
JSTPlus
Number of bibliographies Total 1,055,900
Japanese 625,700 Foreign 430,200
JMEDPlus
ltE-Journal,etcgt
JST7580
To archive center
Abs.Ind. making
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Abs.Ind. data
Abstract Index
MEDLINE
???
Archive Center
Number of abstracts Total 635,400
Japanese296,100 Foreign 339,300
Number of collections Japanese12,000 Journals
9,500 Others 2,500 Foreign 4,600
Journals 3,300 Others 1,300
Number of titles Japanese10,500 Journals
8,000 Others 2,500 Foreign 2,600
Journals 2,600 Others 0
Number of indexes Total 958,000
Japanese615,300 Foreign 342,700
ltFactual Databasegt
User
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the trends in the number of records and number of
collections (1981-2005)
foreign articles Japanese articles foreign
titles Japanese titles
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JDreamII to fulltext link
User
E-Journal
bib. database
LinkResolver
E-Journal
Direct Access
E-Journal
Direct Link
E-Journal
via Particular LinkResolver
Article No.
via Universal LinkResolver
Universal LinkResolver
E-Journal
OpenURL
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sample of output records
Bibliography
OpenURL Link
Abstract
Direct Link
Index
Link Resolver J-STAGE CrossRef
Link Information
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survery to JDreamII users
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 science 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