Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
50th anniversary article
It had all begun with a tripod and a portable camera
-The origin of Sunmedia Document Delivery Service
Shinobu YAMASHITA
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2008 Volume 50 Issue 12 Pages 836-844

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Sunmedia is one of the oldest Document Delivery Company established in our country. It has developed alongside R&D companies during high economic growth era in Japan, and Information Retrieval Service using Online Databases it offered to its clients propelled further the distribution of scholarly articles. It needed the cooperation not only with National Diet Library and JICST, but with overseas institutions, such as British Library. On the other hand, it had critical missions with copyright issues to a degree that it has introduced its clients copyright cleared articles for the first time, and it even became acquainted with Copyright Centers overseas. These past activities were passed on to its new business advancement as a “Content Solution Company”.

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