### 5. Reinforced Coordination and Cooperation among Institutions Engaged in the Implementation of Programs Designed to Strengthen the Capacity of Scholarly Communication (NII, JST, NDL, and JSPS)

### a. Purposes and Projects of Related Institutions

☐ NII, JST, NDL, and JSPS are implementing support programs according to their own purposes concerning the strengthening of the capacity of scholarly communication. In order to efficiently and effectively implement their measures despite limited resources, it is vital to expand and reinforce the programs through promoting the coordination, cooperation, and task sharing among the related institutions, while understanding the content and status of the programs that those related institutions are implementing.

### b. Current Status of Coordination and Cooperation between Related Institutions

Currently NII, JST, and NDL are individually collecting information according to their purposes and content of programs, and each of them has their own search site. Improvement is being made to promote coordination between them, so that the institutions can share and access each other's information.

With regard to digitalisation of journals, division of responsibilities is being established, in which JSPS implements grant programs, JST provides platforms, and NII holds seminars for promoting internationalisation including digitalisation of journals. Progress is being made in the awareness and practices of coordination, cooperation, and division of responsibilities among related institutions.

### c. Projects to be Promoted through Coordination and Cooperation among Related Institutions

(Assignment of DOIs by Japan Link Center)

Through the coordination of institutions, we need to promote standardisation of science information and international coordination in order to facilitate international distribution of scientific information. It is important that the Japan Link Center, which was launched under joint management in April 2012, should promptly get the project of assigning DOIs (an international identifier for scientific information) under way.

(Sophistication of the electronic journal distribution functions through J-STAGE3)

J-STAGE3 was launched in May 2012, shifting the format of the database to the international standard (XML) and making improvements in submission and review systems. Further promotion of electronic journals in Japan and popularisation of the platform in other countries are also significant challenges. It is necessary to continue to maintain close cooperation with related institutions and the Science Council of Japan to enhance the program as a platform for electronic journals originating in Japan.

(Promotion of internationalisation by information sharing through SPARC Japan)

In response to domestic and international trends, NII has been engaged in promotion activities in various formats, including seminars. These activities should be enhanced and strengthened as well as actively publicised as a platform for raising awareness of academic societies and university libraries and for sharing information.

(Further coordination of data and services between related institutions)

In addition to related institutions promoting the collection and dissemination of content according to their purposes, it is important that, through the coordination of related institutions, they achieve “standardisation” of metadata, paper identification methods, and author information, reinforce the “integrated search function” that facilitates access to more in-depth science information such as the entire text of papers, and enhance the “analysis tools and statistics functions” to capture usage data and perform other tasks.

### 6. Other

In the future, it will be necessary to provide better support for multimedia and other increasingly diverse non-text scientific information.

It is also necessary to continuously collect and analyse statistics, since information on the use of electronic journals has not been shared.

Future discussion topics may include the distribution of big data facilitated by academic cloud and other technological innovations, and a discussion of how the science information infrastructure should be improved in light of the development and use of a nationwide knowledge infrastructure.