NII’s Provision of Academic
Resources
Hideaki Takeda
Professor, Dr. Eng.
Director, R&D Center for Scientific Information Resources
National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN【May 29, 2006】

Today's content
GeNii： Academic Content Portal
学術コンテンツポータル
NII-REO: NII Repository of Electronic
Journals and Online Publications
電子ジャーナルリポジトリ
Institutional Repositories: Support forconstruction and cooperation
機関リポジトリ構築・連携支援
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GeNii“Academic ContentPortal”

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GeNii service concept

One for All, All for One「ネットワーク上にない情報は存在しないも同然」“Information not on the network might as well not exist.” 「どこにどんな情報があるかわからない」“ Don't know what sort of information is available where.”

Provision of secondary source (catalog data, academic paper
bibliographic data, etc.)二次情報の整備 （目録データ、論文書誌データなど）
Computerization of primary source (full text of academic papers,etc.)一次情報の電子化 （論文本文など）
Restructuring of already accumulated data蓄積した各種情報の再構築
Efficient collection and organization of information that is continually
increasing増え続ける情報の効率的な収集・組織化

Making individual units of information (One) available to wholeacademic community, whole country, and whole world (All)
Making all sorts of information (All) available to individual users (One)
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個々の情報（One）を 全学・全国・全世界（All）のために／さまざまな情報（All）をひとりのユーザ（One）のために

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Integrated search

http://ge.nii.ac.jp/Search portal integrating different services
サービスを一括して検索する窓口

Gives users appropriate navigational guidance to find required
information without needing to think about which service holds it.

どのサービスかをを意識しなくても、的確なナビゲートで利用者の求める情報へと誘導

Results categorizedby type of content

Accessingrequired content

Academic information portal site
- For answering questions about
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where, andhow much it will be.

Academic paper
information

CiNii Citation Information by NIINII 論文情報ナビゲータ

Large-scaleacademic paper
bibliographic database

From bibliography to full text
【2,500 titles・2.6 million articles】【18,500 titles・9.8
million articles】

Journals of Japanese
academic societies
Research bulletins
Japanese Periodicals
Index (National Diet Library)

Links to location information forjournal holdings in libraries

Citation links【1,600 titles・1.1 million articles】

Academic paper/citation
information portal site
論文情報のポータルサイト

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/

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Also displays papers that cite,
or are cited by a searched paper3Webcat Plus

Book/journal
information

http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/

Associative search -- exciting!
Use text or keywords to findthe information you want
Search by title, author,publisher, publication year,or ISBN

Matching search -- streamlined!

全国大学図書館等の総合目録

Catalog/location
information

Comprehensive catalog of holdings inuniversity libraries, etc. throughout Japan+

目録・所在情報・ Commercially published books not held in libraries(vendor's records)
・ National Diet Library holdings (JAPAN/MARC)+

Table of Contents/
Content Description

目次・内容情報

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Database construction/gathering
Library A

Reference files

Union catalog
database

Library B

Books

Bibliographies:
7.5 million records
Japanese 2.5 million records
Other languages 5 million records

Holdings: 83 million records

Commercially published books(vendor’s records)／publisherDB（Table of Contents/ContentDescription ）＋Japanese:
0.9 million records
English:5.6 million records

Journals

Bibliographies:
0.3 million records
Holdings:
4.2 million records

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Information on
research results(Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research)
KAKEN (科学研究費成果公開サービス)MEXT
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Adopted research proposals＋deliverables【520,000 records since 1965】
Makes gaining an overall view easier:
9 Brings together information on adopted
proposals and results by topic
9 View the progress of an individual topic fromyear to year throughout the project

Two ways of searching:
9 Keyword search
9 Search from lists of research
institutes/fields/types

http://seika.nii.ac.jp/
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Specialized academic
information

NII-DBR(Academic Research Database Repository)(学術研究データベース・リポジトリ)

Incorporates and makes available academic databases inspecialist fields made by academic societies, researchers,libraries, etc.
Multiple databases can be searched simultaneously orindividually
Simultaneous search【27 databases/1.5 million items】

Single databasesearch

http://dbr.nii.ac.jp/

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NII-REO“NII Repository of Electronic
Journals and Online Publications”
NII電子ジャーナルリポジトリ

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Background －Problems on E-journal usage－• Disconnection by e-journal
server/network
trouble.海外サーバ障害，ネットワーク障害によるアクセス不可¾ Stable access environment is desirable• Never access to any content after license
expires.ライセンス契約終了後に一切コンテンツが見られなくなる¾ Guarantee of permanent access to contents
university was licensed
Solution：

Local mounting and e-journal supply
to domestic users
ローカルマウントした電子ジャーナルを国内提供↓↓↓↓

NII-REO

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NII-REO concept
Consortia

Domestic andforeign publishers
and academic
societies

Universities

License agreement, access rights

LibraryＮＩＩ
E-journals server
E-journal serverContenｔs

Local mounting

Publisher A

U s e r s

Search(Bibliographicinfo.)

Publisher B

× Access during server ornetwork failure× Access to publisher’sserver○ Alternate accessduring server or networkfailure○ Access to archives

E-journals

OthersFull text data
available

Researchers,Researchers,students
students
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Stored articles
PublisherIEEE Computer Society

Number ofCoverage
Articles
140,000 2004-present

Kluwer Online

350,000 1997-2005

Oxford University Press

930,000 1849-2003

Springer Science +Business Media
計2,000,000 1847-1996
3,420,000（As of June 2006）

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Institutional Repositories:
Support for construction andcooperation
機関リポジトリ構築・連携

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What is Institutional Repository (IR)?
• “ … a set of services that a university
offers to members of its community for
management and dissemination of digitalmaterials created by the institution and itscommunity members.”（Lynch, Clifford A. “Institutional repositories: essential infrastructure forscholarship in the digital age.” ARL Bimonthly Report. 226, 2003）「大学とその構成員が創造したデジタル資料の管理や発信を行うために，大学がそのコミュニティの構成員に提供する一連のサービス」

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Concept of IR
Users

University
AccessInterface;
Search engine

SearchFacultyIRIR

DepositShow-case of university’s outcomes
Reform of scholarly communication
systemArticlePreprint
Technical paperThesis
Presentation
Teaching tool
Database
SoftwareEtc.

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NII’s Support Activities• 2004– Experimental project with six JapaneseUniversities– Localization and implementation of IR opensources (DSpace; EPrints)– OAI-PMH compliance for metadata harvesting• 2005– Collaborative project with 19 JapaneseUniversities– There are 14 repositories currently in operation• 2006
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universities
repositories

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End Users
Scholarly Contents publishing
IRsPortal
PortalIRs

NII

Dissemination from UniversitiesDissemination from Universities
Peer-reviewed articles,
Preprints, Conference
papers, Theses, Datasets,
Learning materials …

JuNii
Centralized
Metadata
Repository

Universities

Univ. A Institutional
Repository

Metadata Harvesting

Researchers

Univ. B Institutional
Repository

Union
Catalog

KAKEN

ResearchArticles

Contents Returning

deposit

Univ. C Institutional
Repository

SupportofofIRs
IRsImplementation
Implementation
Support

ImplementationofofIRs
IRs
Implementation

Scholarly Contents Development
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