(NOTICE) Automatic collection of publication information in NOUS
April 1, 2024
We have started to use the NINS Open Use System (NOUS) in the National Institutes of NaturalSciences since FY2017, in order to manage integratedly everything from Application to Screening,
Adoption, Report and Publication of Results, and Analysis of our Public Recruitment-Type Joint
Research (https://www.nins.jp/en/nous/).
Also, we have been gradually introducing the system in IMS, NIBB, NIPS and ExCELLS sinceFY2019.
Furthermore, we have started to collect publication information related collaborative research
projects automatically in NOUS.
The purpose is to search information of the publications on Scopus and register the information foundin a cross-search of the joint research project's “project number” and “institution name (includingabbreviations such as IMS, NIBB, NIPS, and ExCELLS)” on the “my page” of the project
representatives in NOUS.
If there are any errors in the way the acknowledgements are written, such as a wrong project number,
the information won’t be collected automatically, so please be careful to indicate in theacknowledgments.
If the information is registered in NOUS, you’ll receive an email as follows. If you receive an email
you don’t know, please contact the Joint Research Section (Please see the notice regarding project
numbers below).
---------------------------------------------------下記の成果情報登録が新しく登録されました。
申請書 ID：XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX課題名：XXXXXX
成果 ID：https://doi.org/....
成果種別：論文
タイトル：XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
雑誌名：XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
著者：XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX---------------------------------------------------You can see the instructions to check whether your publications have been registered in NOUS fromthe URL below.
・IMS https://www.ims.ac.jp/guide/webnous.html

・NIPShttps://www.nips.ac.jp/collabo/nousmanual.html

・NIBB

https://www.nibb.ac.jp/collabo/invite/nous.html

・ExCELLS

https://www.excells.orion.ac.jp/application/nous_manual

Please confirm how to indicate in the acknowledgments that the work was performed as joint research
projects from the URL below.
・IMS https://www.ims.ac.jp/guide/shaji.html
・NIPS https://www.nips.ac.jp/collabo/about.html
・NIBB https://www.nibb.ac.jp/collabo/invite/invite.html
・ExCELLS

https://www.excells.orion.ac.jp/guidelines

At last, we’d like to inform you of some points when mentioning collaborative research projects at
multiple institutes in the acknowledgments of a publication.
In the past, the institutes shared a common numbering rule (21-101 for a project in NIPS and 21-101
for a project in ExCELLS could exist at the same time), so if multiple institute names and project
numbers are indicated in the acknowledgments, they may be registered as results information for
unrelated representatives. (For example, if you write both project 21-501 in NIPS and project 20-305
in ExCELLS in the acknowledgements, a notification of the registration will be sent to therepresentative of project 21-501 in ExCELLS and the representative of project 20-305 in NIPS.)
Currently, the only way to deal with this issue is for the person in charge to delete the wrong
information, so if you receive a notification from NOUS regarding the registration of publication thatyou don’t know, please contact the Joint Research Section (r7133@orion.ac.jp).

Joint Research Section
International Relations and Research Cooperation Division
Okazaki Administration Center (NINS)