Adopted on 18th December, 2006, by the Council

Bylaw on Electronic Journal of the Association JournalofJapan Section of the Regional Science Association International (JSRSAI)(Japan Society of Regional science)(This is excerpted and translated from the Bylaw in Japanese.

Any possible

difference among the two shall be fixed by keeping the Bylaw in Japanese)
Provision 1 – Provision 4 (omission)(Files of no access control)
Provision 5 No access control is made to the following J-STAGE files (hereafter

J-STAGE no access control files):(1)

Available Issues(2)

Table of Contents(3)

Abstract(4)

References(Files of access (browse) control)
Provision 6 Access to the following files (hereafter called JSTAGE access controlled files)
is controlled through the authentication services provided by The Japan Science andTechnology Agency (hereafter called authentication services):(1) Full text of articles, notes, case studies and advances(Authentication of individual subscription)
Provision 7 Notwithstanding Provision 6, the following individuals are able to access tothe JSTAGE access controlled files through the user authentication that is given by theauthentication services available for the category of individual subscribers (hereafter
called individual subscriber authentication services).

However, Provision 2 of Bylawon the Copyright of Publications of the Japan Section of the RSAI

(hereafter calledcopyright bylaw) is still valid to be applied to the access thus authenticated:(1) Individuals who are regular members of JSRSAI (hereafter called individual webmembers A)(2) Individuals who are not regular members of JSRSAI (hereafter called individualweb members B)

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(Authentication of institutional subscription)
Provision 7-2 Notwithstanding Provision 6, the following instituions are able to accessto the JSTAGE access controlled files through the user authentication that is given by
the authentication services available for the category of instituional subscribers(hereafter called institutional subscriber authentication services).

However,

Provision 2 of the copyright bylaw is still valid to be applied to the access thus
authenticated:(1) Institutes who are institutional members of JSRSAI (hereafter called institutional

web members A)(2) Institutes who are not institutional members of JSRSAI (hereafter calledinstitutional web members B)(Web subscription fees)
Provision 8 Individual web members A, individual web members B, institutional

members A, and institutional members B (hereafter called web members) shall pay
membership fees of JSRSAI at the category of web member (hereafter called webmembership fees).
2. The web membership fees prescribed in the above are as follows:(1) 2,000JPY/year for individual web member A(2) 5,000JPY/year for individual web member B(3) 10,000JPY/year for institutional members A(4) 40,000JPY/year for institutional members B
3. The web membership fees shall be paid into the account that is specified by theJSRSAI in advance.

However, those web members who are neither regular nor

institutional members of JSRSAI and who are living outside Japan shall pay theamount of money that is equivalent to the addition of the web fees prescribed in theterm 2. and handling charge, 6,000JPY, into the account.
(ID and password)
Provision 9 Web individual members A and web individual members B (hereafter called

web individual members) are each issued a web individual member ID (hereafter calledID)and the login password (hereafter called password) associated with it.

(Term of validity of ID and password)
Provision 10 Validity of ID and password begin on the validity beginning day which the2manager (The Committee on the Publicity of JSRSAI) has registered to J-STAGE(Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) and they end on thevalidity expiry day which she has registered to J-STAGE.
2. The manager will make the registration of validity beginning and expiry days toJ-STAGE after she has been informed of the receipt of money of web membership fee byJSRSAI and she will notify the web member of the ID and password.
3. The expiry day shall be basically the end of the fiscal year, which starts on 1st Apriland ends on 31st March of the next year, in which the web membership fee has been paid
into the account.
(Password)
Provision 11 Once that the password has been issued, it is unable to change it.
(Term of the access control)
Provision 12 The J-STAGE files, access to which has been controlled following Provision
6, have no access control after about ten years have passed since they were uploaded toJ-STAGE volume by volume.

However, Provision 2 of the copyright bylaw is still valid

to be applied to the access of no control.
Provision 13 (omission)(Pursuant)Provision 14 Prescriptions about J-STAGE no access control files in Provision 5 shall bepursuant to all the pdf and html files installed in the Homepage of JSRSAI.
(Application and acceptance)
Provision 15 An individual or institution who wishes to browse J-STAG access control
files of JSRSAI shall apply for the web membership of JSRSAI following the process andformat that shall be prescribed elsewhere.
2. The application for the web membership shall be accepted at any time.

However,it shall be assumed that the applicant knows the prescription in Provision 10, term 3.
(Approval and notice)
Provision 16 It is assumed that the approval of application for web membership and its
notice have been made when the notice of ID and password prescribed in Provision 10,term 2 is made.

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(Automatic renewal)
Provision 17 Web membership shall not be renewed automatically for the next fiscalyear.
2. Notwithstanding the above prescription, an invoice of web membership fee for thenext fiscal year is made by the end of the fiscal year as for the web member A who haschosen to pay his/her JSRSAI membership fee into the account following Provision 6,term 1, item 2 of Bylaw on JSRSAI membership fees and it is assumed that theapplication for web membership A and its approval prescribed in Provision 15 and 16
respectively have been made when the manager has been informed of the payment of
the web membership fee in the account and then the ID and password are issued assoon as possible.
Provision 18 (omission)
Supplementary Provision
Provision 1-3(omission)4