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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

"Progress in Earth and Planetary Science" and the development of Earth and PlanetaryScience*Toshitaka Tsuda2, Yasufumi Iryu3, Hodaka Kawahata1
1.Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 2.Kyoto University, 3.Tohoku
University
Since April 2014, JpGU has successfully been publishing Progress in Earth and Planetary Science(PEPS), covering all scientific fields of JpGU, under a collaboration with 50 JpGU participating
societies. Currently high quality of articles have been published thanks to the contribution ofworld community members on Earth and Planetary Science. Therefore they are proud of high accessnumbers. We hope that scientific outcomes on Earth and Planetary Science will be widely exposed tointernational community through the publication of PEPS.
Keywords: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Earth Planetary Science, Publication©2016. Japan Geoscience Union. All Right Reserved.

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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

Recent States in Open Access and Open Science and Policy Developments*kazuhiro hayashi11.National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, MEXT
Author introduces recent states of policy developments regarding Open Access and Open Science, witha brief history of scholarly publishing and communication for these decades that have been improved
with incremental and disruptive ways with ICT technology .
Open Science, its definition is still not fixed, is a kind of movement to change the legacy
framework of ST and Innovation, containing Science 2.0, Open Innovation, and Open Data, initiatedby Open Access movement for journal article in a sense. By exploiting the potential of OpenScience, the framework of science would be changed drastically, although it needs time to besettled.
Keywords: Open Access, Open Science, Policy, Scholarly Communication©2016. Japan Geoscience Union. All Right Reserved.

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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

Experiences of Data papers in Ecological Research: A pathway to the open data in ecology*Nobuhito Ohte1
1.Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Ecological Research has been published by the Ecological Society of Japan since 1986. It publishes
original research papers, reviews, technical reports, and notes and comments covering all aspectsof ecology and ecological sciences. The editorial board consists of sixty-eight editors including achief editor and ten associate editors who are responsible for controlling editorial procedures
within their each professional field. The new category “Ecological Research Data Papers” waslaunched in 2011 to facilitate activities for opening the data that has usually been stored andbeen uneasy to be accessed publicly.
Data whose meta information is described in the Data Paper is archived as “Ecological Research DataArchives”, which is located in the part of JaLTER database. JaLTER (Japan Long-Term EcologicalResearch network) was established in 2006 to provide scientific knowledge, which contributes toconservation, advancement and sustainability of environment, ecosystem services, productivity andbiodiversity for a society by conducting long-term and interdisciplinary research in ecologicalscience including human dimensions. JaLTER has nation wide network, which consists of 56 fieldsites including forests, lake and marine observatories, and agricultural experimental sites. Own
database, JaLTER DB is managed and operated in the Center for Global Environmental Research in
National Institute for Environmental Studies. We use the Metacat system as a database server
application which handles EML (Ecological Metadata Language) for data organization and searchingprocesses.
Since the establishment of JaLTER, the Committee for Large and Long-term Ecological Research of theEcological Society of Japan has worked with JaLTER to encourage ecological scientists to makenetworks for field observations and monitoring. At the same time, in order to build up theframework for data opening by ecological scientists not only for the research communities, but alsofor the public and governments, the committee and JaLTER have worked cooperatively to establish thepublishing procedure of Data Papers. The reason of this cooperation has been due to mutual
benefits: Ecological Society can facilitate to open ecological data previously stored individually
and/or institutionally through the data base facility of JaLTER, and JaLTER can yield high quality
data through the authorization by editorial board of the Ecological Research.
12 data papers have been published in Ecological Research, and several manuscripts are currently
under review. Those included datasets related to forest ecosystems and ones related to lakeecosystems, and agricultural ecosystems. Those were made by field oriented monitoring, and one
consists of remote sensing data. Review process of data paper is performed mainly to evaluate thequality (accuracy and usefulness) of metadata and the organization of datasets.
A current subject for us is to keep the consistency of review standard and criteria of acceptance.
To overcome of this issue, we are encouraging potential contributors of data papers, because review
quality can not keep better without writing experiences of data papers. Moreover, datasets as
products of data papers have to be utilized by scientists and recognized their usefulness not only
by ecologists. We still need to make more actions to let the researchers recognize the importanceof data opening. We believe that data papers can generate an incentive for data owners to act asdata suppliers for ecological community and public.
Ecological Research: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/11284
Ecological Research Data Archives:
http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/ER_DataPapers/archives/2014/ERDP-2014-01/metadata©2016. Japan Geoscience Union. All Right Reserved.

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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

JaLTER: http://www.jalter.org/index.php?ml_lang=en
Keywords: Data paper, Open data, Ecological Society of Japan©2016. Japan Geoscience Union. All Right Reserved.

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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

Conditions to stabilize open access journal publishing with a case study of Science andTechnology of Advanced Materials - A moment in the 350-year history of journal publishing*Mikiko Tanifuji1
1.National Institute for Materials Science Library
In Japan, many journals change from the subscription model to an open access model, and new open
access journals are launched in response to the new Japanese government policies and funding
schemes. The involved challenges concern not only academic societies, but also libraries atuniversities and research institutes. I would like to introduce a case study of a gold open accessjournal, Science and Technology of Advanced Material, focusing on sustainable publishing management
and open science policies in Japan.
Keywords: Open science policy, Open access journals, APC (article processing charges), sustainable
journal publishing©2016. Japan Geoscience Union. All Right Reserved.

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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

”Earth, Planets and Space”: Open Access Publication*Yasuo Ogawa1, Hirokuni Oda2
1.Volcanic Fluid Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2.National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology
Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) is an academic journal published by the following five societies;
The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, The Seismological Society ofJapan, The Volcanological Society of Japan, The Geodetic Society of Japan, and The Japanese Society
for Planetary Sciences. The publication of EPS started in 1998 as continuations of Journal ofGeomagnetism and Geoelectricity and Journal of Physics of the Earth. With the 5-year support fromJSPS, EPS started open access publication from January 2014. The number of submitted papers in 2015
was 366, which is doubled from 2012, because of the increased visibility of the journal and thevarieties of promotional activities. The average time from the submission to the publication was
5.2 months in 2015. We also had promoted successful 15 special issues (thematic series). We plan topromote submission of letter categories and aim to have quick publications. We also enhancecollaboration with JPGU in the future.
Keywords: "Earth, Planets and Space", Open Access, Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific
Research Results©2016. Japan Geoscience Union. All Right Reserved.

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