Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

7th International Conference on Grey Literature6 December, 2005

J-STAGE: System for Publishing and Linking Electronic Journals in Japan

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jpcontact@jstage.jst.go.jp

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About J-STAGE Japan Science and Technology Information

AGgregator, Electronic

• Free platform of electronic journals for academic societies in Japan since October 1999

• Used by 327 academic societies• Hosts 245 journals, 89 conference proceedings,

6 reports, and 40 JST reports• About 163,000 articles are published• More than 300,000 PDFs are downloaded per month• Gets the Japanese government budget

about 1.2 billion Japanese Yen for each fiscal year

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J-STAGE• Helps academic societies in Japan

to publish their electronic journals- free of charge for use- can be customized for each academic society- copyrights are still held by the academic societies

• Disseminates STM information to the world- everyone can access without any registrations- abstracts can be viewed freely- full text access is controlled by each academic society (free access, id/password or IP address authentication)- supports many functions: errata, electronic supplements, full-text search, reference linking, new arrival alert

• Supports all processes of electronic publishingsubmission/reception of manuscripts, peer-reviewing, judgment, editing, loading articles on the web site

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Number of Titles on J-STAGE

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JST report

Report

Proceedings

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Language of Journals on J-STAGE

Eng.49%

Mix ofEng. &

Jpn.31%

Jpn.20%

(As of the end of October 2005)

NoAbstract

12%

Jpn.1%Both

Eng. &Jpn.5%

Eng.82%

Journals Abstracts

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Number of Articles on J-STAGEand Number of Accesses to J-STAGE

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Number of articles Total number of accesses Number of PDF downloads

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Electronic Journals

Electronic Journals

Electronic Journals

Enables linking between electronic journals and bibliographic databases

STM Databases

STM Databases

Linking by JOI

ChemPort

Linking via JST Link Center

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China10%

UK10%

Korea8%

US10%EU

6%

unidentified8%

Japan29%

Russia2%

others13%

India2%

Taiwan2%

from 122 countries

(April 2004 ~ September 2005) User Distribution of J-STAGE

J-STAGELink0.5%

J-STAGEDirect41.6%

JOIS /JDream

0.1%

JOI Link9.9%

CrossRef2.8%

PubMed41.5%

ChemPort3.6%

Countries Access channels

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Future Plans• Encouraging more journals to use J-STAGE

- 500 titles by the end of fiscal 2006

• Extension of links to other sites- cooperation with Google- participation in CrossRef Search- provision of OpenURL interface

• Back Issue Digital Archiving Initiative- production of back file data back to the first issue- major 500 titles in five years

• More New Functions- alert mail when an article is cited- usage reports in COUNTER* format * Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resource