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In 2008, our partners are 72 in total.
We selected 68 universities for area 1, and 4 more universities for
only area 2.
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| Area 1: Further expanding IRs and creating content:68 partners |
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Hokkaido University |
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Otaru University of Commerce |
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Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (Japanese) |
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Kitami Institute of Technology (Japanese) |
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Asahikawa Medical College |
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Hirosaki University (Japanese) |
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Iwate University (Japanese) |
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Tohoku University |
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Yamagata University |
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Fukushima University (Japanese) |
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University of Tsukuba (Japanese) |
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Tsukuba University of Technology |
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Saitama University (Japanese)
(Contributing organization: Bunkyo University) |
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Chiba University |
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The University of Tokyo |
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Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japanese) |
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Ochanomizu University |
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Hitotsubashi University |
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Yokohama National University (Japanese) |
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Niigata University |
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Kanazawa University (Japanese) |
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Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
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University of Fukui (Japanese)
(Contributing organization: Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui University of Technology, Jin-ai University, Fukui National College of Technology) |
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University of Yamanashi |
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Shinshu University (Japanese) |
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Gifu University |
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Shizuoka University |
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Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (Japnese) |
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Nagoya University (Japanese) |
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Aichi University of Education (Japanese) |
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Nagoya Institute of Technology |
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Mie University |
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Shiga University |
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Kyoto University (Japanese) |
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Kyoto University of Education |
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Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japanese) |
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Osaka University |
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Osaka Kyoiku University (Japanese) |
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Kobe University |
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Hyogo University of Teacher Education (Japanese) |
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Nara University of Education |
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Nara Women's University (Japanese) |
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Okayama University |
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Hiroshima University |
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Yamaguchi University
(Contributing organization: Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Shimonoseki City University, Tokuyama University, Baiko Gakuin University) |
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Kagawa University (Japanese) |
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Kochi University (Japanese) |
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Kyushu University (Japanese) |
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Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japanese) |
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Nagasaki University |
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Kumamoto University |
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University of Miyazaki (Japanese) |
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University of the Ryukyus |
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Sapporo Medical University |
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Osaka Prefecture University |
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Seigakuin University |
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Keio University (Japanese) |
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Tokyo Dental College |
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Tokyo Women's Medical University |
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Hosei University (Japanese) |
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Meiji University |
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Waseda University (Japanese) |
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Kanagawa University |
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Kanto Gakuin University |
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Doshisha University |
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Kinki University (Japanese) |
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Hiroshima University of Economics (Japanese)
(Contributing organization: Onomichi University, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University, Kure University, The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Hiroshima Jogakuin University Library) |
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Area 2: Building new services through collaboration among IRs: 21 projects (PDF 76KB ) |
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| Project themes: Development of technology to reinforce dissemination of information |
Project name:
Developing an Electronic Publishing System based on the platform of Institutional Repositories
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Nagoya Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Kyushu Univ. |
| Nagoya University Library is developing an electronic publishing system based on the platform of
Institutional Repositories. Our goal is to create new flow from the publishing of research
outcomes to the collecting of repository contents.
We will make a prototype system and will experiment with the journals whose editorial offices are
located in Nagoya University Library.
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Project name:
Development of a Journal Editing and Publishing System(ePubs)
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Waseda Univ. |
| Contributing institution:
Kyoto Univ. Hiroshima Univ. Nagasaki Univ. Saga Univ. |
| In order to enhance the collection efficiency for the repository, we selected to use the journal
management and publishing system called "Open Journal Systems (OJS)" developed by Public
Knowledge Project (PKP).
For better usage, we localized the OJS into Japanese and introduced it to academic community
members. However, many community members were not satisfied with the OJS since it did not
have a function for publishing issues in paper form.
In this year's project, we will try to develop the publishing module and promote the OJS again to
the academic communities to increase the number of contents stored in the repository.
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Project name:
Access path to Institutional Resources(AIRway)
Website |
| Lead institution: Hokkaido Univ. |
| Participating institution: Kyushu Univ. |
| Contributing institution:
Univ.of Tsukuba Chiba Univ. Nagoya Univ.
Kanazawa Univ. Kyoto Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| The AIRway (Access path to Institutional Resources) is a research and development project,
which is aimed to achieve the navigation to open access documents collected in institutional
repositories etc. by link resolvers. As its character, the AIRway is also possible to be widely
applied to resolve the location of a open access document through OpenURL request.
Link resolvers can improve the function of offering appropriate copies service by cooperating with
the AIRway server in the system level and lead users who don't have the electronic journal
subscription license to the full-text of the document.
Universities and research institutions that manage their institutional repositories can gain users of
link resolvers in addition to the users of Internet search engines such as Google and service
providers for OAI-PMH such as OAIster by offering their metadata to the AIRway server with
OAI-PMH. As a result, this project is the one having aimed to improve the visibility of documents
registered in the institutional repositories furthermore.
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Project name:
Developing Intersystem Tools for Institutional Repositories
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Nagoya Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Gifu Univ. |
| We are developing intersystem tools for Institutional Repositories.
One tool is for converting metadata. We already have some plug-in modules for programming
language Python. Now we will develop web-based API for converting metadata. The other is a
resolver system for author names. We are using it to link our Institutional Repository to other
systems such as researcher database and OPAC. For easier handling, we will develop web-based
API of this service.
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Project name:
Initiative for XooNIps-based new repository system
Website |
| Lead institution: Keio Univ. |
| Participating institution: Beppu Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Kinki Univ. Sapporo Medical Univ. |
| The XooNIps-Library module has been developed by Keio University Media Center Head Office
since 2005. This project is sponsored by NII (National Institute of Informatics) as its Repositories
Program.
In 2008, we are working on 'Initiative for XooNIps-based new repository system' (NII Repository
Program Area 2) in cooperation with The Laboratory for Neuroinformatics at RIKEN Brain Science
Institute (BSI) and several XooNIps-Library module users.
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Project name:
MaiIdentity Program
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Kanazawa Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Waseda Univ. Kyushu Univ.
Shinshu Univ. Chiba Univ. Nagasaki Univ.
Obihiro Univ. of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Shizuoka Univ.
Hokkaido Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| MaiIdentity is a two-year project (2008-09) based on the outcome of "A Project on Data Sharing
for Achievement Database and Institutional Repository" (2006-2007) funded by CSI project of
NII.
This project aims to develop an author identification function for Institutional Repository. For this
purpose, some key information to identify the authors of the digital contents in the repository will
be studied and examined as Digital Author Identifier.
The project also seeks to apply the author identifier to Researcher's Information System such as
the KAKEN database provided by NII. This application will be expected to enable the
interoperability between the repository and such common database system in Japan.
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Project name:
Structuralization of Tsukuba Science Repository (TSR) for value improvementa
Website |
| Lead institution: Univ. of Tsukuba |
| Contributing institution: Tsukuba Univ. of Technology |
| An empirical study on value improvement of IRs.
Under TSR plan, Tsukuba-based latest scientific knowledge and findings are showcased around a
cyber city on the World Wide Web in a quite comprehensible way.
For this purpose, research outputs are not only to be aggregated into TSR, but also to be
associated, networked and reconfigured when in use by several collaborative teams of the
researchers affiliated with the research institute in Tsukuba Academic City.
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| Project themes: Collaboration among IRs |
Project name:
The development of an open access and bi-directional repository for medical science
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Sapporo Medical Univ. |
This project involves the construction of an open access and bi-directional repository in order
to dispatch the research results of dissertations within the hygienic medical field around the
country as effectively as possible.
- The ExLibris systems corporation is responsible for making the metasearch system
"MetaLib", which is incorporated in the platform.
- A domestic medical repository is employed for recording data.
This Institutional repository is serviced with harvesting which uses "OAI-PMH".
- Induction to original articles is achieved via the application of a "SFX" link-resolver.
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Project name:
Repository of Archaeological Reports
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Shimane Univ. |
| Participating institution: Tottori Univ.
Okayama Univ. Hiroshima Univ. Yamaguchi Univ. |
| A huge number of archaeological reports are published every year in Japan. However, since they
are mainly in printed form and the number of prints is not large, their circulation is limited to
certain institutions. In addition, every library is struggling against a heavy load of tasks to store
them in order and ever growing shortage of storage space.
This project aims at helping researchers in every university to utilize valuable records and
exhibiting them by working cooperatively with regional governmental organizations through a
common repository framework based on the OAI-PHM protocol.
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Project name:
Shared Repositories Project (ShaRe)
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Hiroshima Univ. |
| Participating institution: Okayama Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Hiroshima Institute of Technology
Yamagata Univ. Saitama Univ. Nagasaki International Univ.
Hokkaido Univ. Chiba Univ. Kanazawa Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| The number of institutional repositories constructed by academic institutes has been increasing
in Japan, but most medium or small institutes don't have a repository yet. For the dissemination
of all scholarly materials in Japan, it is necessary to place their materials within a repository. The
aim of this project is to promote open access by supporting the construction of shared
repositories that are more economic and effective for medium or small institutes which have
difficulties establishing their own repository. To achieve this, we will develop some system and
operational models for shared repositories and hold workshops to share our knowledge and
experiences.
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Project name:
Development of Education Subject Repository
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Tokyo Gakugei Univ. |
| This Project aims to collect the metadata of education-related resources which is stored in the
institutional repositories of National Universities of Education and other institutions, and enable to
search these resources from terms representing the subjects of education.
First of all, by the cooperation of the National Universities of Education and other institutions, we
will make policies to describe the metadata of the education-related resources. Next, each
institutions will describe the metadata according to the policies. Then, we will collect these
metadata from each institutions (harvesting metadata according to OAI-PMH protocol). We also
develop suitable search interface for education-related resources. Finaly, we will evaluate the
usage of this system by inplementing statistical functions.
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| Project themes: Research on ensuring the sustainability of IRs and enhancement of their value |
Project name:
Digital Repository Federation(DRF)
Website |
| Lead institution: Hokkaido Univ. |
| Participating institution: Chiba Univ.
Kanazawa Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Otaru Univ. of Commerce
Univ. of Tsukuba Waseda Univ. Hiroshima Univ. |
| Digital Repository Federation (DRF) is a federation consisting of 85 universities and research
institutions (as of October 2008), which aims to promote Open Access and Institutional
Repository in Japan.
DRF was established in 2006 and served a Wiki and a discussion list for sharing experiments and
expertise in Open Access movements and institutional repositories. DRF has organized a set of
workshops and an international conference (DRFIC2008). DRIFIC2008 was held in Osaka
University in January 2008 on the theme of "Open Access and Institutional Repository in Asia-
Pacific" , in which 193 librarian and researchers from 8 countries participated and had active and
fruitful discussions.
In 2008-2009 period, there are scheduled an international conference, 2 annual workshops and
many regional workshops. Also DRF will cope with common issues in operating institutional
repositories, such as intellctual property rights, eScience, research assessment, shared
repositories, ILL/DD integration, etc.
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Project name:
Framework for sustainable upgrading of repositories by way of creation of a user community
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Chiba Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Kagawa Univ. Osaka Univ. Hiroshima Univ. Shimane Univ. |
| Practice usually makes perfect. Among the psychological obstacles for those librarians who are
eager to launch a repository for their campus patrons, the lack of intuitive sense of real, day-today
operation of repository is the most overwhelming. Hands-on experience without commitment
to continued sustenance should unburden those apprehensive librarians of unnecessary illusory
worries. Such librarians are also faced with an important decision of which software to use for
their repository, with little more than official sales advertisements or informal, personal
descriptions put on blogs by would-be managers of repositories.
The "experience site" project here aims first at providing all librarians and other interested
parties with chances of getting themselves acquainted with a set of different software
environments where users of the system may compare the softwares and the technical
requirements for operation and secondly at identifying possible enhancements and
standardizations for the purpose of future continued and sustainable sustainable repositories,
taking advantage of the participating librarians' "raw" experiences which are communicated over
mailing lists and SNSs for the user community. The site will serve both the librarians who have
not started repositories and those who have been managing their own.
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Project name:
Copyright policy management on open access and self-archiving (SCPJ project 2)
Website |
| Lead institution: Univ. of Tsukuba |
| Contributing institution: Hokkaido Univ.
Chiba Univ. Tokyo Institute of Technology Kanazawa Univ.
Osaka Univ. Kobe Univ. |
| Copyright policy management on open access and self-archiving (SCPJ project 2) takes over the
mission of SCPJ project in 2006-2007.
The project is aimed to develop legal protocols for managing copyright issues in an open access
environment in Japan.
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Project name:
Human Resource Development for Sustainable Institutional Repositories
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Kyushu Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Saga Univ.
Nagasaki Univ. Kumamoto Univ. Univ. of Miyazaki Beppu Univ. |
| A main purpose of this project is for the person in charge of institutional repository to acquire
basic knowledge of web system development through the workshop, and to promote coordination
between institutions. Participants of the workshop are widely gathered beyond library staffs, and it
leads to develop human resource, realize sustainable institutional repositories and create new
human relations.
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Project name:
Standardization of usage statistics for IR evaluation
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Chiba Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Tohoku Univ.
Kanazawa Univ. Hokkaido Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| This project aims to produce standardized COUNTER-compliant usage reports of IRs in Japan,
which enable the managers of the libraries that host IRs to obtain standardized output reports for
their evaluation of services.
For this purpose, the Chiba University Library, as project leader, will organize a ad-hoc working
group by librarians/technical people form some university libraries to discuss the standardized
procedures for the processing of access log data, to monitor access by bot to be eliminated form
the log, and to decide the draft format of reports. Chiba University library will also host a host a
server with applications designated for the experimental process of log data submitted by the
university libraries hosting IRs.
Taking into the account of the results of such experiments and the international trends on
standardization of usage statistics, a guideline will be proposed for the development of IRs, which
would meet the requirements for the standardized evaluation of IR output.
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Project name:
Research Visibility Analysis System Project
Website |
| Lead institution: Shinshu Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Saitama Univ. Keio Univ. |
| Research Visibility Analysis System enables researchers and institutions to get a view of their
research's visibility through multiple indicators including those from institutional repositories. This
system helps researchers to know their visibility and work out their research strategy. Also it
helps institutions to evaluate its whole research situation. The system can be used in
combination with various eprint systems and researcher directory systems. The system will be
provided in open source.
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Project name:
IRcuresILL
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Otaru Univ. of Commerce |
| Contributing institution: Hokkaido Univ.
Chiba Univ. Kanazawa Univ. Osaka Univ. |
IInstitutional Repository (IR) has the same function as Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery
service (ILL/DD) in the sense that provides scholarly information resources to remote users who
want to use them. Indeed open access IR is more useful than ILL/DD because it can
provide the resources to users on the spot and freely. It seems that IR has the possibility to
complement ILL/DD, not to say to replace it.
The aim of this project is to obtain the basic knowledge for using IR as the complement tool of
ILL/DD and to propose a model for integrating IR and ILL/DD to advance the library function to
provide the resources more efficiently from the long-term perspective. For
this purpose, we plan to perform the following efforts:
- survey the NACSIS-ILL log data to reveal the resources which were authored by Japanese
university's researchers and were frequently requested through this system,
- examine how many resources among them could be registered to the IR,
- based on the above results, investigate how to integrate IR and ILL/DD and propose a practical
model for them.
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Project name:
Input/Output Activation for Research Communities to be Involved with Institutional Repositories
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Kyushu Univ. |
| Participating institution: Saga Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Chiba Univ. |
| This project aims to construct an environment that research communities become deeply
involved with institutional repositories and activate input-output to them. Specifically, it is
planned that collaboration of institutional repositories and web based editor, which helps research
communities to produce their research outputs. Furthermore, the development of browsing
federated search is implemented to display related contents in an institutional repository to a
particular web page and enables researchers to search institutional repository unconsciously.
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Project name:
Zoological Science meets Institutional Repositories
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Hokkaido Univ. |
| Participating institution: Kyoto Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Chiba Univ.
Kanazawa Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| With the advent of the Web, many research articles are archived openly accessible with
expectations to increase their visibility. And there are research reports that Open Access articles
are cited more than non Open Access articles.
But these research reports do not consider the method of archive as Open Access, and they
don't analyze research citation impact with the focus on only institutional repositories.
Do Open Access articles in the institutional repositories really increase research citation impact?
We challenge to analyze it in this project. We deposit the articles in "Zoological Science" in the
institutional repositories in cooperation with Zoological Society of Japan and we will analyze it in
more detail from a long-term perspective.
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Project themes:
Surveys and research concerning the possibility of collaboration between e-Science projects and IRs |
Project name:
In vivo experiment of data curation for repository-based e-Science
Website(Japanese) |
| Lead institution: Chiba Univ. |
| Contributing institution: Kanazawa Univ.
Kyushu Univ. Hokkaido Univ. Osaka Univ. |
| The project aims at establishing good practices for capitalizing institutional repositories currently
under development in collaboration with research institutes in various subject areas in order to
promote scientific research based on sharable data and communicative interaction, which requires
a standardized set of metadata across different research interests, from bibliographical references
to res earch results, to publicly searchable descriptions of images and to administrative details of
data curation, as well as a community platform on which researchers with diverse backgrounds
would exchange ideas, hypotheses and perspectives on top of the data they have common access
to.
The main goals of the two year project include (1) the design, implement and field test of an
innovative platform on which tools and development environments are available for tagging images
with interoperable metadata suitable for uses by various communities of researchers and students
with different needs for data, and (2) the development and appraisal of the platform system in
terms of the usability of institutional repository as an effective and efficient management system
for intellectual inputs and outcomes for research and higher education with special attention to
the demands from campus communities.
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