The Catalog Information Service supports operations at institutions such as university libraries, offering Online Shared Cataloging System (NACSIS-CAT) and the Interlibrary Loan System (NACSIS-ILL).
Universities and NII jointly work for various scholarly contents to realize the next generation scholarly content infrastructure. Institutional repositories are to serve for acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating such scholarly information. They are a set of services by academic institutions for their academic communities to manage and publish digital contents they create.
NII conducts a joint project for constructing metadata database of academic information resources which are provided by universities and research institutes in Japan on the Internet.
The Science Information Network (SINET) is an information communication network connecting universities and research institutions throughout Japan via nationwide nodes. SINET4 plays an important role as the core component of the Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI) as the successor of SINET and Super SINET.
