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J-STAGEElectronic Journal Publication &
Dissemination Center
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp
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J-STAGE Purposes
• Help academic societies to produce and publish electronic journals
• Assist all publication-related operations from manuscript submission, peer-reviewing to page layouting
• Publishing and disseminating research works of international quality promptly and widely
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Budget
• Funded by the Science and Technology Agency
• Operational budget of 2000 is about 770 million yen
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J-STAGE Features
• Author Assistance
• Electronic Manuscript Submission
• Electronic Peer-Reviewing
• Editorial Management
• Page Layouting Assistance
• Creating Citation Links
• Electronic Journal Dissemination
• Multimedia Supplementary Materials
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Author Assistance
• Develop templats for MS Word and LaTeX
• MS Word templates reflects final page style
• Allows to convert manuscript data into PDF and SGML
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Electronic Manuscript Submission
• Manuscripts submitted via Web
• Bibliographic data are also input via Web
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Electronic Peer-Reviewing
• Assign editors and reviewers using database
• Manuscripts are downloaded via Web
• Review results are submitted via Web
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Editorial Management
• Editorial offices can monitor the process status
• Inquiries and requests are e-mailed automatically
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Page Layouting Assistance
• FrameMaker+SGML is used for MS Word manuscirpts
• Manuscripts are automatically converted into the final page style
• PDF and SGML are generated automatically
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Creating Citation Links
• Links to major databases– JICST, PubMed, CAplus (STN)
• Links to major electronic journals– APS, AIP, HighWire
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Multimedia Supplementary Materials
• Materials which are difficult/impossible to deliver in the printed media– Audio files
– Video files and animations
– High-resolution graphics
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J-STAGE System Overview
• Accessible 24 hours/365 days
• Free for academic societies
• Necessary hardware and software available
• Constructed around the Web technology
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J-STAGE System Overview
Citation LinkServer
E-Journal Server
MultimediaServer
Mail Server
DNS Server
Firewall
保守端末
InternalNetwork
Internet
Researchers
Editorial Office
Printing Firm
Other E-JournalSites
Terminals J-STAGEMonitoring
J-STAGE Center
Editors
Reviewers
Citation Linking
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Servers J-STAGEDevelopment
Terminals
Society (1)
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Technical Aspects
• SGML for internal data description
• Microsoft Word and LaTeX for templates
• Web interfaces
• PDF for full texts
• Adobe‘s FrameMaker+SGML for page layouting
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Various Users
• Authors
• Peer-Reviewers
• Editorials
• Editorial Offices
• Printing Firms
• Subscribers
• Web Surfers
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Acceptance
IssuePreparation
Production
Publication
Author EditorsEditorialOffice
ReviewersProduction
OfficePrintingFirms
Subscribers
Peer-Reviewing
ManuscriptPreparation/Submission
Receipt
(2)ElectronicSubmission
(3)Receipt
(4)Assign
Reviewer(s)
(1)ManuscriptPreparation
(5)ReviewRequest
(6)Reviewing
(7)Acceptance
(8)Issue
Preparation
(9)Final
Manuscript
(10)Production
(11)GalleyProof
(12)Printing(13)
OninePublication
(14)BrowseSearch
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J-STAGE Work Flow
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Current Status
• Started development in 1998. 10
• Publicly available since 1999. 10. 5
• 37 academic societies made an application to use J-STAGE , and 22 journals are now using J-STAGE
• 80 societies are expected by March, 2001
• 500 societies are expected in a few years
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Journal List• BIOPHYSICS
• Cell Structure and Function
• Japanese Heart Journal
• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Chemical Software
• Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry
• Journal of Nippon Medical School
• Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
• Journal of Physiologycal Anthropology
• Journal of Reproduction and Development
• and others
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Practical Use
• Use from Journal Production Progress
• Use of a Wide Use Template of FrameMaker + SGML
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Plans
• More academic societies
• XML
• Functionality– More links(CrossRef, Chemport)
– Meeting abstracts
• Higher performance
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The Committee on XML for J-STAGE
• More efficient application of electronic data
• Difinition of DTD for XML
• Develop the tools and programs for XML
• MathML
• XSL
• Distributed processing system
• XML Schema
• XML Namespaces