The event was held on February 17, 2023. A cumulative total of 638 people participated.

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Speaker

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13:00-13:05

Opening Greeting / Outline

Kazuhiro Hayashi
(National Institute of Science and Research Unit for Data Application)

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13:05-14:05

The History of SPARC and the Transformation of Open Access

[Abstract]

Jennifer Beamer
(The Claremont Colleges)

YouTube

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14:05-14:50

Can #Transformative Agreement solve the #E-Journal Issues?

[Abstract]

Noriko Osumi
(Tohoku University)

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14:50-15:00

Break

15:00-15:10

Institutional Repositories as a Channel for Implementing Open Access

[Abstract]

Chifumi Nishioka
(National Institute of Informatics)

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15:10-15:20

SCOAP³ international collaboration to convert traditional closed access physics journals to open access in the high-energy physics community

[Abstract]

Katsumasa Ikematsu
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

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15:20-15:30

Promotion of Open Access for research capability enhancement

[Abstract]

Amane Koizumi
(National Institutes of Natural Sciences)

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15:30-15:40

Introducing examples of article processing charges in life science research

[Abstract]

Hiromasa Ono
(Database Center for Life Science, ROIS-DS)

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15:40-15:50

Survey of Open Access Publication and Article Processing Charges (APCs) in Japan by JUSTICE

[Abstract]

Yoshiro Hirata
(The University of Tokyo)

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15:50-16:05

Break

16:05-16:55

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
*Ui Ikeuchi
(Faculty of Language and Literature, Bunkyo University)

*Tomomi Yamagata
(Hokkaido University Library)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Noriko Osumi
(Tohoku University)

*Chifumi Nishioka
(National Institute of Informatics)

*Katsumasa Ikematsu
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

*Amane Koizumi
(National Institutes of Natural Sciences)

*Hiromasa Ono
(Database Center for Life Science)

*Yoshiro Hirata
(The University of Tokyo)

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16:55-17:00

Closing

Kimie Takeya
(National Institute of Informatics)

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Head, Scholarly Communications and Open Publishing Services, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont California, USA.
Advocate for Open Access and open infrastructure, having recently completed a doctoral dissertation on how the organizations of SPARC NA and JP support open access infrastructure. Recently completed a two-month JSPS Short-term Post Doc with the NII in 2022. SPARC NA Steering Committee member. Chair of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Scholar Communications Committee and of the SCELC IR Subcommittee. Presenter for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Scholarly Communication Roadshow. An alumnus of the SPARC Open Education Program 2019-2020 and OpenCon 2014 and 2016. Doctorate in Communications and Information Science and a Master of Library Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Jennifer’s career as a Librarian has been committed to researching and advocating for policy that would help faculty participate in Open Access in alternative ways.

Prof. Osumi has graduated Tokyo Medical and Dental University, been given PhD thesis from the same university, and now is a professor of Tohoku University School of Medicine since 1998. She has been appointed Vice President in charge of public relation, promoting diversity, and President of University Library from April 2018. Her research background is developmental biology, and she has interest in brain development, evolution, and disease.

Dr. Nishioka is an Assistant Professor of Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division and Research Center for Open Science and Research Data Platform, the National Institute of Informatics. She received her doctoral degree in engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, Germany (conducted research at the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics). She was involved in the Kyoto University Open Access Promotion Project at Kyoto University Library from March 2017. She is in the current position since April 2022. Dr. Nishioka is currently engaged in research and development in areas related to scholarly communication and open science.

Research Administrator at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). Completed the doctoral program at Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University in 2004. Ph.D. (D.Sc.). Research fellow at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in 2004; Research associate at Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK in 2008; Research associate at Faculty IV (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology), University of Siegen in 2010; Researcher at Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering, Saga University in 2014; and Senior Assistant Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University in 2016. Current position since April 2021. Involved in high-energy physics experiments and R&D on detector instrumentations / Synchrotron radiation beamlines at accelerator research facilities in Europe for over ten years. Based on those experiences, Dr Ikematsu is currently working to promote international collaboration projects.

Graduated from Keio University School of Medicine. After graduation, he studied basic electrophysiology and retinal visual physiology in the Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine. From 2002, he was a research fellow at Professor Richard Masland of Harvard Medical School in the U.S. He returned to Japan in 2007 and became an Associate Professor in the Public Relations Promotion Office of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS). Since 2014, he has been a specially-appointed professor (Supervisory URA) at the headquater of National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS). During this period, he also served as an academic investigator in the Research Promotion Bureau of MEXT, a JST Science Communication Fellow, and an ad-hoc member of the Basic Research Promotion Subcommittee of the Council for Science, Technology and Science, MEXT. Member of the International Advisory Board of THE World University Rankings. He has developed methods for analyzing the research capability of universities and conducted analyses of the social impact of universities.

Dr. Hiromasa Ono joined the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) as a Research Assistant in 2007. After serving as a Project Technical Specialist, he was promoted to the role of Project Assistant Professor in 2012, where he was responsible for the development of technology for utilizing large-scale data focused on gene expression information, as well as the development of applications related to the integrated use of databases in the life sciences. He has been instrumental in the development of "RefEx" and "TogoID", and also contributes to the production and editing of "TogoTV", which features videos that demonstrate the use of bioinformatics tools and databases.

Manager of Libraries for Engineering and Information Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo. While working as a library staff at national universities, Mr. Hirata joined the Negotiation Working Group and PR Working Group as a member of JUSTICE Working Groups (April 2011- March 2018). Executive Director of JUSTICE (April 2018- March 2022). Current position since April 2022. Also belongs to the OA2020 Taskforce as a JUSTICE collaborator.

Ui Ikeuchi is an associate professor, in the Faculty of Language and Literature at Bunkyo University since 2019 and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. She has a Bachelor of Law degree (1995) and a Master of Library and Information Science degree (1997) from Keio University. After working at Ferris University Library from 1997 to 2005, she became a housewife and entered the doctoral program at the University of Tsukuba. Her research focuses on research data sharing and open science. She is a senior researcher of Japan Center for Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (JSPS) and a Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). She is also a member of the SPARC Japan Seminar planning working group since 2020.

Tomomi Yamagata is a librarian of Hokkaido University, and a member of SPARC Japan seminar working group. She is also a member of OA2020 taskforce of Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). Her main interest is changes in scholarly communication by spreading of Open Access movement.

Chief of Academic Information Service Section (also IR specialist), Academic Information Office, Research Promotion and International Affairs Division, University of Electro-Communications. Current position since April 2020. Master of Arts (Philosophy). At the library, Mr. Ueno oversees library service operations and is responsible for procurement and operation of library systems as well as enhancement of the academic and experimental research space (UEC Ambient Intelligence Agora), which contributes to AI research and education DX. Within the university, he is also involved in the university’s IR and in the digitization of administrative work.

Kazuhiro Hayashi is a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Foresight Center, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Hayashi started turning literatures of the Chemical Society of Japan written in English into digital journals as a business as a part-time job when he was a graduate school student. Mr. Hayashi accumulated observations and improvements through a variety of work experiences such as peer reviewing digital postings, XML publication, improvement of J-STAGE, establishment of digital journal business, and advertisement activities. He thus established this magazine as the digital journal with one of the fastest digital publications in the world, started open access in 2005, and established technology which was compatible with digital books (ePub). Using the accumulated experience, he enhanced the attractiveness of the distribution of scientific information in Japan through the Science Council of Japan, SPARC Japan, and other organizations. He is also interested in the future of digital journals and next-generation communication among researchers. Mr. Hayashi has been conducting policy science research at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan since 2012. He is investigating and researching styles of open science and policy development in addition to scientific technology forecasting studies.He is working as an open science expert in projects for the Cabinet Office, G7 Science & Technology Ministers' Meeting, OECD, and UNESCO.

Librarian of Hokkaido University Library in 2-year duty work at NII (2022-2023). Working for the user community (JPCOAR) of Japan's nationwide repository network (JAIRO Cloud).

A Member of the SPARC Japan Seminar 2022 planning working group. Associate Professor, Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support / Research Administrator, Research Initiatives and Promotion Organization, Yokohama National University. He accomplished credits for the doctoral program in International Political Economy, Graduate School Of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba. After studying on international relations in large-scale science projects as a Junior Researcher at the University of Tsukuba from 2012 to 2014, he started his career as a University Research Administrator (URA) at Yokohama National University in 2014. He moved to his current post in April 2020. He is working on science and technology policy studies, institutional research activities, promoting open science in the university.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) in North America and Japan have interesting origins and histories. Both organizations have played significant roles in building the movement and are leaders in the present-day transformation of Open Access (OA). Each SPARC is unique and has taken different paths to support OA, including building technical infrastructure, providing education on social norms, and advocating for policies and practices as they have charted and navigated the OA landscape. This past decade has brought many new and exciting twists and turns for OA. I would like to consider the SPARCs’ influences on the Transformation of Open Access and what the future holds for the distribution of scholarly information.

While the e-journal subscription fees paid by universities increase each year, the amount of Article Processing Charges (APC) paid by authors when they choose to make their articles open access also continues to increase. One short-term solution to this issue is the “transformative agreement”, a means of expanding OA publishing by gradually transferring e-journal subscription fees to APCs. Tohoku University has launched a pilot project for transformative agreements with major commercial publishers in collaboration with several universities. From the standpoint of a life science researcher, I would like to report on the current status of the project and make recommendations for its future prospects.

Since the late 1990s, researchers, libraries, publishers, and other stakeholders have been working to promote Open Access based on their own motivations. In this context, the library community has recognized institutional repositories as a channel for implementing open access and has been publishing accepted author manuscripts in institutional repositories (a.k.a., Green Open Access). In this talk, I would like to discuss the current status and challenges of institutional repositories with respect to open access, trends in foreign countries, and possibilities in the future.

The SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) International Collaborative Project, led by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is an Open Access (OA) initiative in the field of High Energy Physics (HEP), and is a global consortium currently consisting of 45 countries. Since its launch in 2014, the milestone of a total of 50,000 peer-reviewed journal papers being made OA by SCOAP³ in May 2022 has been achieved. This means that more than 90% of the journal papers in the HEP field are published as OA articles in the 11 academic journals (including “Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics” published by the Physical Society of Japan) by SCOAP³, allowing authors to submit them without APCs. This success of SCOAP³ is probably related to the uniqueness of the field (i.e., both preprint server system “arXiv” and WWW were also invented in the HEP field). The current status of the project including the background in the HEP field will be discussed in the seminar.

In various indicators, the decline in the research capabilities of Japanese universities has become more and more pronounced. To begin with, the research activities of researchers are intellectual pursuits that involve building up "bricks" one by one, and it is very important to know how to create and combine these bricks. In order to face major academic and social issues that cannot be solved by a single brick alone, it is necessary for many researchers to bring together and combine a number of bricks, rather than the power of a single researcher. To this end, researchers must share the same major objectives and visualize the results of their research. Making papers and other materials open access is an essential process to challenge larger issues by visualizing one's own research results so that they can be seen by many researchers and stakeholders. In this presentation, I will discuss how to strengthen research capabilities by promoting open access.

The rise of Article Processing Charges (APCs) has been a concern in recent years, as the costs associated with publishing open access articles in many journals have grown significantly. This can be a financial burden for researchers, particularly those from institutions or countries with limited funding, and may limit their ability to publish their work in open access journals. In September 2022, we published a paper in Bioinformatics on TogoID, a web application that allows users to perform ID conversion while exploratively checking connections among life science databases. We chose to publish the paper immediately in open access in the hope that it will be widely used by many life scientists as a research resource. From a researcher's perspective, I would like to share information about the evolution of APC and Open Access with those actual examples.

Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) had focused on negotiations with publishers regarding terms and conditions for subscription. In light of the progress of Gold OA via APC payment, however, we came to the realization that comprehensive negotiations that include both subscription fees and APC are necessary. Based on this recognition, we have conducted a series of surveys on the number of published articles, the ratio of OA, and estimated total APC payments by researchers affiliated with Japanese institutions since FY2015. I would like to introduce the outline of these surveys as well as how JUSTICE has been approaching OA.