Current status and usage trend of J-STAGE

Abstract

Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE) is an electronic journal site operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). It helps academic societies in Japan to publish their journals electronically. As of the end of February 2006, 269 journals and 90 conference proceedings are available online. About 176 thousand articles are loaded on J-STAGE. Over a million of pages are viewed and more than 300 thousand of full-texts on J-STAGE are downloaded in a month. About 70% of the accesses to J-STAGE come from 120 foreign countries. About 60% of the accesses to the articles on J-STAGE come through the links from other sites, especially through the links from bibliographic databases like PubMed to full-texts. Since the articles published some years ago are still needed, JST has begun the Digital Archive Project in 2005 to digitize Japanese major journals back to the first issues and make them available online.