The event was held on October 26, 2012. Around 80 people participated.

Every year various events are held around the world to popularize Open Access.
The purposes of Open Access are to shape institutions and establish foundations for online access to research papers without restrictions and at no costs, and to support the unrestricted use and re-use of papers and related information aiming to promote research and education. Open Access is becoming a large-scale movement that involves distribution and evaluation of scholarly information. The Open Access Week is an opportunity to discuss and share these ideas among researchers, librarians, and publishers who support the related activities.

The Open Access Week will be held from October 22 (Mon) to 28 (Sun), 2012. This year NII will have a one-day SPARC Japan Seminar on October 26 (Fri). We shall review example cases from US/Europe, activity reports by the persons involved, and the influence of Open Access on research and education in Japan. We shall also provide a general outline of the Open Access movement and discuss the future of Open Access in Japan. We welcome contributions from all the participants. Interpreter services will be provided.

Time

Title

Speaker

10:00-10:15

Opening Speech

Jun Adachi
(Professor / National Institute of Informatics)
Mikiko Tanifuji
(General Manager, Scientific Information Office, Planning Division, National Institute for Materials Science)

Session 1: Overview of Overseas Movements in Open Access

10:15-11:35

[Keynote Lecture]
Scholarly Publishing and the Evolving World of Open Access

[Abstract]

John Haynes
(Vice President / American Institute of Physics, Publishing)

11:35-11:55

Lead to eScience : Open Repository

[Abstract]

Hayahiko Oozono
(DRF / Okayama University Library)

11:55-12:15

World-wide Repository Network: The Third Annual Meeting of COAR, Sweden

[Abstract]

Kyoko Jo
(DRF / Hokkaido University Library)

12:15-13:15

Break

Session 2: Open Access and Japan

13:15-13:35

How to remove blinders from academic workhorses in life science

[Abstract]

Masanori Arita
(Associate Professor / Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)

13:35-13:55

OPEN ACCESS from a view of a researcher in physics

[Abstract]

Ken-ichi Ueda
(Professor Emeritus / Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications)

13:55-14:15

SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics in Japan

[Abstract]

Mitsuaki Nozaki
(Professor / High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

14:15-14:35

OA and Library : Can IR Become an Infrastructure to Support Research?

[Abstract]

Masamitsu Kuriyama
(Associate Professor / College of Human Science, Department of Contemporary Social Studies, Tokiwa University)

14:35-14:55

Policy Trend of OA and IR in Japan

[Abstract]

Norihiko Uda
(Associate Professor / Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba)

14:55-15:05

Break

Session 3: Future Forecast for Research and Academic Activities

15:05-16:25

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
* Mikiko Tanifuji

[[ Panelist ]]
* John Haynes
* Masanori Arita
* Ken-ichi Ueda
* Norihiko Uda
* Masamitsu Kuriyama
* Mitsuaki Nozaki
* Jun Adachi

16:25-16:30

Closing

Mikiko Tanifuji is a managing director of NIMS Library, and a publishing director of journal publishing, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). STAM now ranks 36th out of 231 journals worldwide in the category Materials Science & Multidisciplinary by Thomson Routers database. She is also involved in a development of NIMS Digital Library. "NIMS eSciDoc"is a co-development project with Max Planck Digital Library, which is one of core repository service of the digital library. She has also introduced a researcher directory service, SAMURAI (http://samurai.nims.go.jp) in 2010 which is one of application services extracted from NIMS eSciDoc. She is a member of Society for Scholarly Publishing, Japan Society of Applied Physics, Publishing Board of the Optical Society of Japan, SCOPUS Contents Selection (seven years), a working member of Japan Science Council and a Library Advisory Board member for several publishers.

Dr. Haynes received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of British Columbia, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford. After more than two decades in the STM publishing industry, including senior positions with Institute of Physics Publishing and Royal Society of Chemistry, he joined AIP in 2009 as vice president, publishing. He holds senior management responsibility for AIP's journal publishing program, which includes AIP and Member Society partner journals.

Having worked as a library staff since 2002, and engaged in launch of the Institutional Repository System at Okayama University. Since 2009, joined Digital Repository Federation (DRF) WG of technical support.

Kyoko Jo has been working as a library staff since 2002. From 2010, she has been engaged in Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP).

Masanori Arita is a start-up member of Computational Biology Research Center (AIST) in 2001 and Department of Computational Biology, The University of Tokyo in 2003. Since 2010, he is involved in undergraduate education of bioinformatics. This year he chairs the joint conference of three domestic societies for bio- and cheminformatics.

Prof. K. Ueda received the M.S. degrees from Osaka University in 1971, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1977. He worked in JEOL R&D center, and department of physics of Sophia University before joining to ILS/UEC as an associate professor in 1981. He had been a professor and director of ILS/UEC since 1996. He retired from UEC at the end of March in this year. He still works in ILS/UEC as a special appointed professor and he is a science advisor of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.. He developed almost all kinds of lasers, a liquid laser, an electron beam pumped excimer laser for fusion, an ultrastabilized laser for gravitational wave detection, high power fiber lasers, ceramic lasers and so on. He is interested in the ultrahigh intensity laser application to the high energy physics program in Europe and Japan. He has experiences on board member of OSA, JSAP, JPS and organized joint publication office between JPS and JSAP for electronic publication in Japan. He was and is an topical editor of Applied Optics, Laser Physics Letters, Review of Laser Engineering, Journal of High Power Laser Technology, and an editor-in-chief of Optical Review. He is a member of Science Council of Japan, and IUPAP WG on Communication in Physics.

After awarded a doctoral degree in science by the University of Tokyo in 1982, the speaker has been holding an academic position at the University of Tokyo and then at Kobe University before joining KEK. His specialty is high energy physics. He has participated in various international collaborations including the ATLAS experiment, which has recently discovered a Higgs-like particle at CERN, and the joint observation of cosmic-rays with NASA. He has been engaged in the foundation of a new journal, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP), as a publication committee member of the Physical Society of Japan and as a board member.

Masamitsu Kuriyama is an advisor of the Digital Repository Federation (DRF) in Japan. He is in charge of Librarian Course at Tokiwa University. Before joining Tokiwa University in April 2002, he worked at the University of Tsukuba Library and the University of Ryukyus Library. He graduated from Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo in 1980.

Dr. Norihiko Uda gives lectures on "Introduction to Knowledge and Information Sciences" or "Digital Libraries". He built the specifications of digital libraries of University of Tsukuba Library. He offers advice and assistance as a senior scientific research specialist since 2010.

The seminar will cover three main areas:
1. Introduction to Open Access (OA)
2. Implications of OA for publishers and other key stakeholders
3. Recent OA policy initiatives from around the world

The first part of the seminar will provide an overview and introduction to open access. It will also define key terms and describe the two main routes to open access, the so-called green and gold routes. The second part will provide an overview of how publishers are responding to open access and the role that other key stakeholders are playing. The second part of the seminar will also expand on key areas that Japanese publishers might consider for possible journal development. The final part of the seminar will provide a high-level summary of some of the key OA policy initiatives from around the world, particularly focusing on recent developments in the UK, EU and USA.

In the West, the open data movement has begun, and there were many presentations of the research data management in institutional repositories at Open Repositories 2012. I will introduce the cases in OR2012 and recent movement, and express an opinion on the possibility of university libraries in Japan to be involved in research data management.

The Third Annual Meeting of COAR was held on May 21-22, 2012 in Uppsala, Sweden. In the first day, the program contained General Assembly 2012 of COAR. This presentation will report the outline of the Annual Meeting.

In a near future when personal genomes and life-logs are available, the result of life-science research should be publicly accessible especially for improved healthcare. However researchers' gain function is often modulated by near-sighted vision such as Impact Factor; in Japan, academic moguls adhere to the hierarchical convoy-system and do not value the openness of their research. I would like to discuss the necessary changes for a better funding- and evaluation scheme and a realistic way toward such goals.

As one of the researchers in physics area, OPEN ACCESS is not a simple issue. We have multiple faces and characters on OA activities. Thus, we find some discrepancy between the responses of researchers living in the real world and ideal one from outside. This is natural, because there are dilemma between authors and readers from the view of personal benefit. Of course, scientists and engineers well understand the research activity is really public and OA journals and articles can contribute the communication in physics more and more. On the other hand they understand deeply the peer-review process of articles is so important for polishing the quality and discussion, and the present journal publication system is a great result of last 100 years effort to keep high quality and constant communication for our physics community. I try to discuss OA issues from the point of view of a realistic scientist using my experience on author, reader, referee, editor, editor-in-chief, board member of society, and member of science council, and IUPAP.

In the last several years, three major reforms/changes, which are related with each other in spite of their different origins, have been made simultaneously in the publication of high energy physics articles. Finally they brought about the foundation of a new article, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP), and its participation in the SCOAP3 project. The history and recent progress with some particularity of high energy physics are presented in detail.

University libraries in Japan had planned and executed projects such as computerization of library services, construction of the online shared cataloging and ILL system (NACSIS-CAT/ILL), digital library initiatives and introduction of e-journals. After realizing them though not satisfactorily, advocacy for open access (OA) and construction of institutional repository (IR) became new goals. An IR is an electronic archive which provides an institution's research output, but its lack of enough content is a common problem around the world. OA mandates are growing overseas to prompt researchers to deposit their works in a repository. But in Japan there are few institutions mandating OA and Japanese librarians are trying hard to expand IR content through PR activities. They also organize the Digital Repository Federation (DRF) which does various activities such as information exchange through a mailing list, holding events, giving training, publication of a PR magazine, participation in international conferences and translation of overseas literature. In contrast to past projects being achievable with efforts within libraries, OA/IR activities greatly depend on trends in researchers, publishing industries and funding agencies. So, for IR to become an infrastructure to support research, it is indispensable to build close relationship with those stakeholders.

This presentation explains the report of MEXT entitled "Infrastructure Development for Strengthening the Capacity of International Dissemination and Distribution of Science Information".