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NII and its new information service GeNii

Akira MIYAZAWA

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Internet age and libraries

What shall libraries do? Can libraries survive?

There are many activities to answer these questions.

No one has final answer, so far.

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NII

National Institute of Informatics One of inter-university research

institutes, under the government Research institute and

Information service provider

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History 1976 Research Center for Library and

Information Science (University of Tokyo)

1983 Center for Bibliographic Information (University of Tokyo)

1986 National Center for Science Information Systems: NACSIS

2000 National Institute of Informatics

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Concept of NII

Research and Information Service Research topics from real world

applications State of art technology support for

services Informatics as interdisciplinary

information-related research domain

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NACSIS-IR 1987-

Information Retrieval service of some 50 databases

SCI, NACSIS-CAT union catalogue, JAPAN-MARC, Japanese Periodicals Index, ...

Full text search engine from 1995 User account is required

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NACSIS-ELS 1995-

Online journal service of digitized image form

500 titles of 200 Japanese academic societies'

User account required for copyright fee payment

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GeNii 2005 -

Integrated portal to research information Seamless access from article indexes, c

itations to papers Components:

Research works: article navigator Books and serial titles: Wwbcat-Plus Research projects: Kaken

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GeNii top screen

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Article Navigator: CiNii

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CiNii

Integrated access to research work index databases

Citation Database for Japanese Papers (CJP) offers citation links

Direct access to full text through various online journal sources

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Books and Serials: Webcat-Plus

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Webcat-Plus

Associative search can search "similar" books can search from arbitrary sentences or

phrases Integrated access to NACSIS-CAT

union catalogue, JAPAN-MARC and other vendor provided book titles

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Research projects: Kaken

Grant-in-Aid Scientific Research can search currently conducted

research projects

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Access to GeNii

Open access part and limited access part

Institutional license Fixed fee personal membership Pay per view

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Research information infrastructure and national policy

Infrastructure and government support Research network Research information support Private sector or government sector? Who is responsible and who should pay

for it?

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Prospects and Conclusion

New components and functionalities Continual renovation Researches to ensure renovation