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Title

Speaker

13:00-13:05

Opening Greeting / Outline

Takanori Hayashi
(Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences)

13:05-13:20

Strengthening research impact and open access in Japan

Noriko Osumi
(Tohoku University)

13:20-13:35

Restoring Researchers’ Autonomy in Scholarly Communications through Open Access

Takashi Hikihara
(Kyoto University)

13:35-13:45

The History of Open Access in Life Sciences

Shuichi Kawashima
(Database Center for Life Science)

13:45-13:55

Bridge Communication that Thrives in a Society with Implemented Open Science

Shuichiro Takahashi
(Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.)

13:55-14:10

Break

14:10-14:20

Development of Open Collaborative Mapping and its Data Use

Toshikazu Seto
(Komazawa University; the University of Tokyo)

14:20-14:30

Missing Link in the Circulation of Knowledge: What Use Cases Will Intellectual Assets Lead to?

Asanobu Kitamoto
(National Institute of Informatics)

14:30-14:40

The outlook of Scholarly Communication in Next Ten Years

Hideaki Takeda
(National Institute of Informatics)

14:40-14:50

Information Literacy in the Age of Open Access

Toshihiko Nozue
(Aoyama Gakuin University)

14:50-15:00

"The 2030 Digital Library" as the model of university libraries after mandatory open access

Hiroya Takeuchi
(Chiba University)

15:00-15:15

Break

15:15-16:55

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
*Ui Ikeuchi
(Bunkyo University)
*Nobuhiro Yabuki
(Yokohama National University)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Takashi Hikihara
(Kyoto University)

*Shuichi Kawashima
(Database Center for Life Science)

*Shuichiro Takahashi
(Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.)

*Toshikazu Seto
(Komazawa University; the University of Tokyo)

*Asanobu Kitamoto
(National Institute of Informatics)

*Hideaki Takeda
(National Institute of Informatics)

*Toshihiko Nozue
(Aoyama Gakuin University)

*Hiroya Takeuchi
(Chiba University)

16:55-17:00

Closing

Seiji Hosokawa
(National Institute of Informatics)

Prof. Osumi has graduated Tokyo Medical and Dental University, been given PhD thesis from the same university, and now is a professor at 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.

Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University. Dr. Hikihara’s field of research includes nonlinear dynamics and its engineering application, measurement and system control, and power processing. Director-General of Kyoto University Library Network (2012-2022). Director-General of Institute for Information Management and Communication (IIMC), Kyoto University (2020-2024). Executive Vice President of Kyoto University (2022-). To transform the university library into a dynamic service organization, he led it to declare the open access policy in 2015, the open data policy in 2020, and to establish a Center for Open Science and Data Management in 2024 to accelerate these efforts. arXiv.org MAB (2016-2018).

Project Associate Professor at the Life Science Database Center, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems. Ph.D. in Science. After working at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, and the Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, joined DBCLS in 2012. Since then, engaged in developing life science databases and advancing technologies for database integration.

Ph.D. in Life Sciences, graduated from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. After he co-founded Leave a Nest Co., Ltd., he built some new platform that includes not only academia but also industry, government and education sectors, such as “Leave a Nest Grant” and “L-RAD” which enables us to implement underutilized researchers’ ideas into the society. He has been a Representative Director COO, of Leave a Nest Co., Ltd., and also a Representative Director of Leave a Nest Capital Co., Ltd. since 2010 and 2022, respectively.

Appointed as a Research Associate in 2004 and later as a Lecturer (2006–March 2009) in the Department of Geography, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, and was appointed as a Special Researcher at the same institution in 2012. Visiting Fellow at the Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University (2012). Served as Project Assistant Professor from 2013 and later as Project Lecturer from April 2016 at the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), The University of Tokyo. Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Komazawa University, since April 2021, while also serving as a Project Associate Professor at CSIS, The University of Tokyo, and as a Visiting Associate Professor at The Open University of Japan. Specializes in social geography and geographic information science, with research focused on participatory GIS, civic tech, and data governance. Ph.D. in Literature.

Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Professor / ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities(CODH)
https://www.nii.ac.jp/en/faculty/digital_content/kitamoto_asanobu/

Professor/Director, Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Director, Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Hideaki Takeda received Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1991. After working at Norwegian Institute of Technology and Nara Institute of Science and Technology, he joined National Institute of Informatics (NII) in 2000 and currently the professor at Informatics Principle Research Division and the director of Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science in NII. His interest includes Semantic Web, Social Web, and Community-based systems. He is a member of JSAI, IPSJ, IEICE and AAAI.
http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/faculty/informatics/takeda_hideaki/

Professor and Dean of the College of Education, Psychology, and Human Science, Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU), and Vice Director of Institute for Technological & Social Transformation (iTST), AGU. After serving as a Research Associate at the National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS), a Supervisor for Social Education at the Ministry of Education, an Associate Professor at the College of Literature, AGU, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), currently holds the present position. Also serves as the Chair of the Committee for User Education of the Japan Library Association (JLA), the Chair of the Basic Policy Committee of the Council on the Organization of Information on Science and Technology at the National Diet Library (NDL), and the Chair of the Tokyo Metropolitan Library Council. Specializes in library and information studies and education and information studies, with research interests in information literacy education and teaching materials (learning resources) development.

M.A. in LIS from Keio University in 1987. Before joining Chiba University as the associate professor of library and information science in 2003, he had experience at the University of Tokyo Library System, the UNESCO Principal Regional Office in Asia and the Pacific, and the University of Shizuoka Junior College, both in practice and teaching. Prof. Takeuchi has served in several management positions at Chiba University, including University Librarian and the Director of the Academic Link Center(2011-), Vice President for Educational Innovation and Learning Support(2014-), and Director of the Higher Education Center(2023-). He has also served the chairmanship in some government committees such as the Subcommittee on How University Libraries Should Be in the Age of Open Science, Committee on Information Science and Technology, Council for Science and Technology (CST).

Associate Professor, Faculty of Language and Literature, Bunkyo University. Doctor of Philosophy (Library and Information Science). After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Keio University (1995) and completing a master’s degree in library and information science at the Graduate School of Letters at Keio University (1997), Ui worked at Ferris University Library from 1997 to 2005. Ui then spent time as a housewife and a doctoral student at the University of Tsukuba and took the current position in 2019. Her research interest is to understand the changes brought by open science in the distribution of scholarly information from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Since 2016, Ui has been conducting surveys on research data sharing, open access and preprints in Japan as a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). She is also a member of SPARC Japan Seminar Planning Working Group since FY2020.

A member of the SPARC Japan Seminar 2024 planning working group. Associate Professor, Strategic Planning Division / Research Administrator, Research Initiatives and Promotion Organization, Yokohama National University. He completed coursework for the doctoral program in International Political Economy at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and holds a Master's degree in International Political Economy. After serving as a Junior Researcher at the University of Tsukuba, focusing on international relations in the context of large-scale scientific projects, he started his career as a University Research Administrator (URA) at Yokohama National University in 2014. He moved to his current position in April 2024. He is involved in science and technology policy studies, institutional research activities, and the promotion of open science within the university.

Working member of the SPARC Japan Seminar 2024 Planning Working Group. Specialist in advanced information utilization at the Information and Public Relations Office, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences. Has held the current position since April 2021. Ph.D. in Informatics. Involved in the management and operation of libraries and official websites, supporting database construction and engaging in research information collection and dissemination, as well as open science activities.

Working member of the SPARC Japan Seminar 2024 Planning Working Group. Division Manager, Research Support Division, Kyoto University Library; Member of the Steering Committee, Chair of the Public Relations and Outreach Working Group, and Chair of the Event Management Working Group, Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (JPCOAR); Member of the Scholarly Information Resources Committee, Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL); and Member of the Expansion Steering Committee, Japan Link Center. At Kyoto University, responsible for promoting open access, managing electronic journal contracts and overseeing digital archives.

Hitotsubashi University Library; and Member of the SPARC Japan Seminar Planning Working Group for FY2024. She also involves in the Negotiations Working Group as a committee member of the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). After working not only at Hitotsubashi University Library, but also as a secretary to the president and being seconded to the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo), she has been in her current position since September 2023.

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.

This presentation will explore the role of open access (OA) in enhancing Japan’s research capabilities, particularly focusing on academic publications. It examines challenges faced by researchers and institutions, alongside solutions in the context of the immediate OA policy for publicly funded research beginning in 2025. While Read & Publish agreements offer a means to tackle rising subscription fees and enhance transparency, reproducibility, and international competitiveness, the APC-based Gold OA model raises concerns about its sustainability. The talk will examine OA's impact and strategies for advancing and nurturing science and technology.

Open access to research results and evidence data will be mandatory starting in 2025. This brings attention to the many challenges related to the rights and responsibilities of research, which have become a massive source of data but remain ambiguous. Scholarly communication has contributed to scholarly distribution through the visible activities of academic societies and voluntary peer review. It is, however, overshadowed by a chaotic situation in which the distribution process itself takes the lead. Therefore, reversing this situation means enabling researchers to regain the ability to visualize and disseminate research results with evidence and transparency on their own terms. Whether this can be achieved depends on whether a source node in the network can be created in such a way that researchers are able to take initiative within the system.

Open access in the life sciences has played a crucial role in advancing science and fostering international collaboration. In this presentation, I will review the history of genome data sharing, which developed alongside the Human Genome Project, and introduce the current state of open data through successful examples of early open databases such as GenBank and PubMed. I will also discuss the role of the FAIR principles in ensuring the proper publication and reuse of data. Furthermore, I will examine the technical and ethical challenges and explore the future possibilities enabled by AI and big data analysis.

For open science initiatives to have a broad impact within society, it is essential, as a prerequisite, to create momentum in which all social players, including non-specialists, are aware of and interested in the results of cutting-edge research and are motivated to access new knowledge. To achieve this, it goes without saying that it is important for information to be visible and accessible. In addition, it is crucial for the specialists who publish information to deeply understand the target audience (such as specialists from other fields, industry and the next generation) and actively bridge the gap with them. In this presentation, he will introduce practical examples of ‘bridge communication’ initiatives from the perspectives of next-generation education, industry-academia collaboration and venture creation, and then discuss expectations for open science.

Geospatial information, which supports digital maps and GIS (Geographic Information Systems), has largely been developed by the public sector, primarily by government agencies. On the other hand, opportunities to use geospatial information have been increasing in various contexts, such as urban planning, disaster prevention and infrastructure management, beyond just daily life. There are initiatives to collect various geospatial information that cannot be covered by public data in a participatory manner and to share it as open data. In this presentation, I will focus on the activities of OpenStreetMap as a representative example and explain its role and use cases as data commons.

By widely opening access to intellectual assets, knowledge is hoped to circulate among people and be used, leading to more intellectual assets. However, compared to the wealth of information on the publication of intellectual assets, information on use cases of intellectual assets is scarce, and this is the “missing link” in the circulation of knowledge. We have been attempting to trace the missing link by developing the Mahalo Button, a platform for collecting and sharing use cases of datasets. We want to discuss the future image of the circulation of knowledge from publication to use.

The world of scholarly communication is undergoing a major transformation with the advancement of open science. The world of scholarly communication has changed dramatically with the development of open science. The use of this information has also expanded to include not only research but also research evaluation. This talk presents a schematic diagram of such scholarly communication and describes the role of PID, which plays a central role in it.

Open access to research results, such as papers and data, is merely a means to an end, and the true goal is for users, including researchers, to make use of them. When it comes to seeking and using papers, data and other resources, users are required to have information literacy (including data literacy in this case). I would like to explore how information literacy has changed as the landscape of scholarly communication develops, and how it will continue to evolve. Additionally, I would like to examine how information literacy can be acquired and improved in the future, including the role of university libraries.

The report titled "How University Libraries Should Be in the Age of Open Science (Summary of Deliberations)," published in January 2023, presents the concept of the "Digital Library" as the ideal form of university libraries to be realised by 2030 academic year. This "2030 Digital Library" is not merely about digitising library collections but rather represents a transformation that includes changes in operations, services, and staff knowledge and skills, promoting the DX (digital transformation) that should be achieved based on the digitisation of content. The digitisation of content provided through university libraries is a prerequisite for this realisation. Still, it is necessary to distinguish between the digitisation of "existing" collections and the digitisation of content to be produced "in the future." I want to examine how the mandatory open access for publicly funded research results starting in 2025 will impact this transformation, considering the principles of open access and the role of university libraries.