From Webcat to CiNii Books
Recent updates on information
services in NII
Ikki Ohmukai and Mai Sekido
National Institute of Informatics

Important announcement• NACSIS Webcat will be closed on March 8, 2013
• Thank you for long-time support!
• It’s time to move on…
• Introducing CiNii Books• Webcat Plus will be continued

CiNii Books• Search engine for NACSIS-CAT records
CAT holding records• 1200+ libraries• 11M bibliographies• 110M holdings
12000	
10000	

累積図書所蔵登録数
Holding

Libraries
1400	
110,340,000 1,248
1200	

Member
参加機関数

8000	

Libraries

1000	
800	

6000	

600	

4000	
2000	
S60
S61
S62S63
H元H2H3H4H5H6H7H8H9H10H11H12H13H14H15H16H17H18H19H20H21H220	400	200	0	Restructuring of services
Before 2009.3

2009.4 - 2011.10

After 2011.11

WebcatCiNii

Webcat

CiNii

CiNii

CiNii

Books

ArticlesNACSISCATELSCLSNACSISCATELSCLSNACSISCATELSCLS• Modularization, Downsizing• “Cloud ready” for disaster recovery• Re-designing user interface• “CiNii UI” for general and novice users

Key concepts• Power of data
• Rich metadata brings rich search• Name authority• Deepen collaboration with libraries• Direct link to library systems• Useful functions for ILL

Inside CiNii Books – Search• Search by basic bibliographic information (Title, Author, IDs)
• Search by Subject, Classification, Notes, Media format• Filter by Library ID, Organization ID and Area
• You can search for particular libraries!
• N-gram-based search (don’t mind word separation)

Details and Holdings• Enhanced holding list
• Filter by area, Global ILL availability• Direct link to OPACs• Link to external services• CiNii Articles, NDL, Worldcat…

Metadata and Web API• OpenSearch• Provides search result in XML format• RDF representation of records• Bibliography, Name authority, Library info
• Developer can create mash-up services

Romaji to Kana
Check!

Press“Search”

Translate to Kanaand SearchRecent updates – from April to June 2012①

① CiNii authenticationØ Institution name is displayedon upper right.
Ø Your library is displayed on
the top of holding listØ Link to link resolvers (byOpenURL) set by yourinstitution② Cover image②①

Ø Taken from Google Books③ Direct export tobibliographic
management toolsØ RefWorks,Ø EndNoteØ Mendeley④ Social media
Ø TwitterØ Facebook①③④10

Recent updates – August 2012
① Sort by titleØ available A-Z and Z-A
at the search result② Filter by countries①Ø Selectable Country or
region outside Japan②③ Transcription for
special charactersand languages
Ø Pinyin for ChineseØ Alphabeticaltranscription (romanised) for Arabic, Thai,
Devanagari
Ø Cyrillic etc.

③11Latest updates – September 2012

• Remember Lib ID, Org ID and Area
• Setting will be saved onyour Web browser• Settings will be applied onthe list of holdings• You can find the Library ID(FAID) at
http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/
tool/libsearch.html

DEMO• Search for Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/search?
advanced=true&fano=FA02157X• Search for UK• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/search?
advanced=true&area=54

CiNii Articles• 15 million metadata with 4 million full text PDF• 50% of full texts are Open Access• 90% of full text are available with institutional
subscription
14	Registration from overseas - via agents
VendorOverseas
institutionRegistration/NII

contract

Complete registration

Application form

Usage
authorization

Send Application
Notification

Usage start・ Letter of acknowledgment
・Administrator ID

Payment of fixedcharges

・ Letter of
acknowledgment
・Administrator ID

Invoice
Payment inlocal currency

Invoice

Contact information of agent：-KINOKUNIYA Company Ltd.
International Business Division
E-mail: ibd@kinokuniya.co.jp

For details, see:

-Japan Publications Trading
Co., Ltd.
Book Export II Dept.
E-mail: mono@jptco.co.jp-Okura Info ServiceCo., Ltd.

E-mail: okura-info@e-okura.co.jp

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/en/articles/service_outline_org.html

Roadmap of CiNii• Data integration between Articles and Books• Bridging two different culture• More links to full texts• Open access resources• Any other digitized materials

Conclusion• CiNii is an evolving platform• We really welcome your feedback!