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Makoto Manabe
(The Palaeontological Society of Japan)

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Name of society:
The Palaeontological Society of Japan
http://www.soc.nii.ac.jp/psj5/E_index.html
Founded: June 29, 1935
Membership: 1,063 members (as of Sep. 30, 2009)
Journal titles: Paleontological Research (quarterly; a SPARC Japan partner journal) and Kaseki (semiannual Japanese journal)
Field: Paleontology. It encompasses a wide range of fields, including the evolution of living things (both fossil and modern species) and spatio-temporal changes in ecosystems, environments, and climate.
Platforms used
and URLs:
As Paleontological Research is a UniBio title, issues from Vol. 7 (2003) to the latest issue are available in full text and PDF versions at BioOne2: http://www.bioone.org/loi/jpal

Vols. 1–6 are available as PDFs at Journal@rchive:
  http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/japanese/
  jnltop_ja.php?cdjournal=prpsj1997
The predecessor of Paleontological Research, the Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series Kaseki, is also available at Journal@rchive with full-text articles (PDF files) from issues no. 61 (1966) to 184 (1996).

Articles in Kaseki from no. 31 (1982) onward are available as PDFs at CiNii: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/vol_issue/nels/AN00041606_ja.html
E-journal specifications: Full-text and PDF files, bibliographic and citation metadata
Electronic submissions system: ScholarOne ManuscriptsTM
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pr
Copyright policy: Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories, etc., in principle one year after publication in print format.


Measures Needed to Further Improve the Journals
We are continuing our efforts to publish attractive articles. Each year, one of the four numbers is expected to be a special issue featuring the topic of an international symposium or similar event, and we also plan occasional review articles. In the past 10 years, we have received submissions from 27 countries. We will aim for greater international diversity of both authors and readers by actively publicizing our e-journal and electronic submnicissions system.

E-journal Sales Promotion to University Libraries


Paleontology is a compound discipline with close ties to both biology and the earth sciences. We intend to reinforce our promotional message that, whereas the sciences tend to become increasingly subdivided as they gain in depth, paleontology takes a synthetic approach to knowledge in a wide range of scientific fields, and the Journal is thus a useful teaching material and resource in a synthetic science.

Promotion to Authors to Further Increase Submissions

In cooperation with UniBio and BioOne, we will highlight the appeal that Paleontological Research gains by being part of a package.
We will continue our promotional work to mailing groups of international paleontology researchers.
Photographs and illustrations of specimens are very important in natural history and science articles, and our print journal has always been noted for the quality of its reproductions. It is also known for the promptness with which good submissions are accepted and published. These two features are difficult to match in an electronic format, but we hope that the new readers and contributors we gain in the digital era will want to obtain the print journal as well.