From Webcat to CiNii Books Recent updates on information

services in NII

Ikki Ohmukai and Mai Sekido National Institute of Informatics

Important announcement

• NACSIS Webcat will be closed on March 8, 2013

• Thank you for long-time support! •  It’s time to move on… •  Introducing CiNii Books • Webcat Plus will be continued

CiNii Books

• Search engine for NACSIS-CAT records

•  1200+ libraries

•  11M bibliographies

•  110M holdings

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Libraries CAT holding records 累積図書所蔵登録数

参加機関数

1,248 110,340,000 Holding

Member Libraries

• Modularization, Downsizing

•  “Cloud ready” for disaster recovery

• Re-designing user interface

•  “CiNii UI” for general and novice users

Restructuring of services

NACSIS- CAT

Webcat

ELS CLS

CiNii

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NACSIS- CAT

Webcat

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CiNii

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NACSIS- CAT

CiNii Books

ELS CLS

CiNii Articles

After 2011.11

Key concepts

• Power of data • Rich metadata brings rich search • Name authority • Deepen collaboration with libraries • Direct link to library systems • Useful functions for ILL

Inside CiNii Books – Search

•  Search by basic bibliographic information (Title, Author, IDs) •  Search by Subject, Classification, Notes, Media format

•  Filter by Library ID, Organization ID and Area

•  You can search for particular libraries! •  N-gram-based search (don’t mind word separation)

Details and Holdings

•  Enhanced holding list •  Filter by area, Global ILL availability

•  Direct link to OPACs

•  Link to external services

•  CiNii Articles, NDL, Worldcat…

Metadata and Web API

• OpenSearch

• Provides search result in XML format • RDF representation of records

• Bibliography, Name authority, Library info

• Developer can create mash-up services

Romaji to Kana

Check!

Press “Search”

Translate to Kana and Search

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① CiNii authentication Ø  Institution name is displayed

on upper right. Ø  Your library is displayed on

the top of holding list Ø  Link to link resolvers (by

OpenURL) set by your institution

② Cover image Ø  Taken from Google Books

③ Direct export to bibliographic management tools Ø  RefWorks, Ø  EndNote Ø  Mendeley

④  Social media Ø  Twitter Ø  Facebook

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Recent updates – from April to June 2012

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① Sort by title Ø  available A-Z and Z-A

at the search result

② Filter by countries

Ø  Selectable Country or region outside Japan

③ Transcription for special characters and languages

Ø  Pinyin for Chinese Ø  Alphabetical　

transcription (romanised) for Arabic, Thai, Devanagari

Ø  Cyrillic etc.

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Recent updates – August 2012

Latest updates – September 2012

•  Remember Lib ID, Org ID and Area

•  Setting will be saved on your Web browser

•  Settings will be applied on the list of holdings

•  You can find the Library ID (FAID) at http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/tool/libsearch.html

DEMO

• Search for Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/search?advanced=true&fano=FA02157X

• Search for UK

• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/search?advanced=true&area=54

CiNii Articles

•  15 million metadata with 4 million full text PDF

•  50% of full texts are Open Access

•  90% of full text are available with institutional subscription

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Registration from overseas - via agents

Usage authorization

・ Letter of acknowledgment ・Administrator ID

Payment of fixed charges

Overseas institution

NII Vendor

Registration / Application form

Complete registration contract

Send Application

・ Letter of acknowledgment ・Administrator ID

Usage start

Invoice Invoice

Payment in local currency

Notification

-KINOKUNIYA Company Ltd. International Business Division　 E-mail: ibd@kinokuniya.co.jp

Contact information of agent：　

-Japan Publications Trading 　Co., Ltd. Book Export II Dept.　 E-mail: mono@jptco.co.jp

-Okura Info Service 　Co., Ltd.　 E-mail: okura-info 　　　　　@e-okura.co.jp

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/en/articles/service_outline_org.html For details, see:

Roadmap of CiNii • Data integration between Articles and Books • Bridging two different culture • More links to full texts • Open access resources • Any other digitized materials

Conclusion

• CiNii is an evolving platform

• We really welcome your feedback!