MLA’09 Annual Meeting and Exhibition; Honolulu, Hawaii May 19thIssues in Japanese Health Sciences Librarianship

Bibliographic Information Serviceof Health Sciences in Japan
M. IKUSAKI, M. MATSUDA, K. MISAWA, and A. NOZOENPO Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS)

Introduction

Today’s topics• Overview of our organization• Creation & features of the database• Utilization of our web-based service.

I. About Us

I. An overview of our organization

What’s JAMAS?
• Name of organization:
NPO Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS)“Igaku Chuo Zasshi Kanko-kai” in Japanese• The year of establishment: 1903
• President: Tsuneki SHINOHARA (M.D., PhD)
• Business:- Bibliographic information retrieval service, “Ichushi-Web”- Document delivery service of duplicated articles- Research & developmentof thesaurus for Medical and Health related terms- Involvement in research projects
regarding dissemination of medical information

I. An overview of our organization

Location of our officeJAPANTokyo

The Office in Suginami City

I. An overview of our organization

What’s “Ichushi-Web” ?
• Bibliographic database service via the Internet• Fee-based Service• Coverage: medicine and other allied health disciplines
from 2,700 domestic journals• About 6.7 million bibliographic data• Provided to: health care practitioners, researchers,
medical students, pharmaceutical companies,
public libraries, etc.

I. An overview of our organization

History of “Igaku Chuo Zasshi” (“Ichushi”)• “Igaku Chuo Zasshi”();
means “Central Journal of Medicine”
based on “”• Established in 1903 by Dr. Shiro AMAKO (physician)• The second oldest continuing
medical literature indexing and abstracting publication,
following Index Medicus ®

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Vol.1 No.1, 1903
1903-2002

I. An overview of our organization

About the founder of JAMAS• Dr. Shiro AMAKO (1865-1930)• M.D., general practitioner• Friends with “Sōseki NATSUME” (Japanese novelist)

I. An overview of our organization

A brief history of our services
1903 First volume of “Igaku Chuo Zasshi” published.
1992 CD-ROM version of “Ichushi” database became available.
1995 Internal network system for data creation became operational.
2000 “Ichushi-Web” (Web interface) was launched.
2002 Print publication- ceased
2006 CD-ROM service- ceased

II. Creation & Features of the DatabaseII. Creation & Features of the Database

Scope of the “Ichushi” database• The core subject is medicine• Subjects peripheral or related to biomedicine;
dentistry, pharmacy, nursing,veterinary medicine, and health care
• Scholarly journals, commercial publications,and bulletins of college and hospital• About 2,700 titles are indexed, currently

II. Creation & Features of the Database

Journals selected and indexed- by publishing bodyMore than half; official journals of academic society
Others 6 %Research Institution 5 %Hospital 6 %Academic Society
57 %College(Medical School)
8%

Commercial Publisher
18 %(n= 2,734)(as of March 2009)

II. Creation & Features of the Database

Journals selected and indexed- by publishing bodyMore than half; official journals of academic society
Others 6 %Research Institution 5 %Hospital 6 %Academic Society
57 %College(Medical School)
8%

Commercial Publisher
18 %(n= 2,734)(as of March 2009)

II. Creation & Features of the Database

Journals selected and indexed- by subject scope
Over one-third of the total;
Clinical Medicine and Basic/Biomedical Science Research
Clinical Medicine 19 %Others 36 %Basic/Biomedical Research
17 %General Science 2 %Oriental medicine 2 %Veterinary Medicine 2 %Pharmacy 3 %Public Health 5 %Nursing 9 %Dentistry 5 %(n = 3,048 )(as of December 2008)

II. Creation & Features of the Database

Journals selected and indexed- by subject scope
Over one-third of the total;
Clinical Medicine and Basic/Biomedical Science Research
Clinical Medicine 19 %Others 36 %Basic/Biomedical Research
17 %General Science 2 %Oriental medicine 2 %Veterinary Medicine 2 %Pharmacy 3 %Public Health 5 %Nursing 9 %Dentistry 5 %(n = 3,048 )(as of December 2008)

II. Creation & Features of the Database

The number of records or citations indexed
The annual number of articles indexed has risen
from 1,886 in 1903 to 378,000 in 2008
400,000
120,000

350,000

100,000

300,000

80,000250,000

60,000200,000

Included in the “Ichushi-Web” database

378,425

since 1983

150,000

40,000100,000

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50,00001903 1947 1967 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2008

Yearly citation totals from 2008 “Ichushi” baseline: about 6.65 million citations

II. Creation & Features of the Database

The breakdown of citations indexed- by type of article
60 percent of the records; “Conference Proceedings”
Others 2 %Original Article 15 %Review Article 23 %Conference Proceedings
60 %(n= 378,425)(as of 2008)

II. Creation & Features of the Database

The breakdown of citations indexed- by type of article
60 percent of the records; “Conference Proceedings”
Others 2 %Original Article 15 %Review Article 23 %Conference Proceedings
60 %(n= 378,425)(as of 2008)

II. Creation & Features of the Database

Data elements of the “Ichushi-Web” database• Bibliographic information:author names, title, source, etc.
• Abstract:
20 percent of all the citations- with an abstract
44 percent of all the abstracts- written by authors(as of 2008)• Indexed terms:
manually assigned by indexers
using JAMAS’s Thesaurus vocabularyII. Creation & Features of the Database
Citation display format- sample record from “Ichushi-Web”
Title
Authors / Affiliation
Source (journal information)
Type of article / Research design
Indexed terms (descriptors)
Indexed terms (non-descriptors)
Check Tags
AbstractII. Creation & Features of the Database

JAMAS’s Thesaurus;
basically in conformity to NLM’s MeSH®
• The latest edition (the 6th) updated in 2007,
based on the 2005 edition of MeSH®.
• 55,232 terms contained(descriptors: 25,317 / non-descriptors: 29,915)
cf. 25,186 descriptors in 2009 MeSH®, and over 160,000 entry term

• Available online, and also as a print publication• Used for subject indexing and retrieval

II. Creation & Features of the Database
Tree structure for “HIV Infections”- corresponds to NLM’s MeSH®

from NLM’s MeSH®

from JAMAS’s thesaurusII. Creation & Features of the Database
Vocabulary maintenance system“Molecular Diagnostic Techniques” as an example“Scope Note” quoted, “Unique ID” referred to- highly related to MeSH®

Scope Note
Japanese translation ofMeSH® scope note

Unique ID
from NLM’s MeSH®

from the JAMAS’s system

II. Creation & Features of the Database
Indexers assign descriptors
at a computer on the in-house network

An office scene in Indexing Section

III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”

III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”

The average daily number of login;
Approximately 14,000- during the weekdays in 2008
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III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”

The number of our customers/service contactors;
About 2,000 institutional customers of web-based service, as of 2009
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cf. Additionally, around 6,000 individual customers

III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”

The breakdown for our institutional customers
Hospitals account for 66 % of the total
Others 10 %Research Institutes 1 %Pharmaceutical Companies
5%

Hospitals 66 %Educational institutions 18%(e.g. Medical schools,Colleges of Pharmacy or Nursing)(n = 2,003)(as of March 2009)

III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”

The breakdown for our institutional customers
Hospitals account for 66 % of the total
Others 10 %Research Institutes 1 %Pharmaceutical Companies5%

Hospitals 66 %Educational institutions 18%(e.g. Medical schools,
Colleges of Pharmacy or Nursing)(n = 2,003)(as of March 2009)

III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”

Links to the external databases
More than one million references- linked to the full-text article
Database offered

ProviderOrganizational form

Number of linkage

CiNii

National Institute ofInformatics

National institute583,686

Medical Online

Meteo.Inc

Commercial company

427,920

CrossRef

CrossRef.org

Non-for-profit membershipassociation

83,715J-STAGEJapan Science andTechnology Agency

Independent administrative
institution

56,484MedicalFinder

Igaku-Shoin Ltd.

Commercial company

33,290Pier Online

Sunmedia Co., Ltd.

Commercial company

10,799Total

1,195,894(as of March 2009)

III. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”
Users’ clicking on links to access the electronic full-text;
Based on log information- January through May 2008

“Review Article” in commercial journals in higher demand
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,0000
CrossRef

CiNii

Original Articles

Medical Online

Review Articles

Pier Online

MedicalFinder

Conference Proceedings

J-STAGE

OthersIII. Utilization of “Ichushi-Web”
Users’ clicking on links to access the electronic full-text;
Based on log information- January through May 2008

“Review Article” in commercial journals in higher demand
300,000
250,000

Review Articles
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,0000
CrossRefCiNii

Original Articles

Medical Online

Review Articles

Pier Online

MedicalFinder

Conference Proceedings

J-STAGEOthers

In Summary

In Summary“Ichushi-Web” offered by JAMAS contributes
the progress of medicine and public health in Japan.
• Powerful database of Japanese medical literature• Used in clinical practice, research, and education• Covers Non- MEDLINE® journals

Bibliographic Information Service of Health Sciences in Japan

Thank you,M. IKUSAKI, M. MATSUDA, K. MISAWA, and A. NOZOE

E-mail: ikusaki@jamas.or.jp
NPO JAPAN MEDICAL ABSTRACTS SOCIETY (JAMAS)