Also, many of the machines that have recently been installed are at institutes such as IMR, where they will be used by a small collection of serious researchers, rather than as a general resource base, such as the NSF Centers in the US often provide. However, readers should reflect on the impact on science that the NSF Centers have had. While the analogy is not perfect, it stands to reason that we should expect to see significantly increased scientific output from such a large investment in computing capabilities at Japanese institutions. More traditional SQL commands have been overlayed with a full screen menu system that is claimed to be much more friendly to materials scientists. More than 40 journals are examined and important papers are selected by IMR professionals, in the areas of superconductivity, magnetic, amorphous, microclusters, and other materials related subjects.
Optical disks store the scanned images of the full text as well as keywords, etc.
About 10 students work continuously on aspects of this project. Series A Vol. 37, No.2, December 1992. Complete ATIP reports on Asian Science and Technology go to subscribers and collaborating organizations by direct distribution, or via electronic access. These contain text and often, charts, graphs and pictures.