Abstract
This article describes how successfully Corporate Research & Development of Ube Industries, Ltd. had tackled to construct an information retrieval system for end users, and briefs the “Information Retrieval Adviser System” being emerged from the IR system construction. It is based on the policy that research or information retrieval should be done by researchers or scholars themselves who actually engaged in R&D, invention and so on. The company continues to introduce end user oriented information retrieval systems and necessary end user education or orientation. In detail each research department selects “information retrieval advisers” for the purpose of making the end user education more effectively, and raising the effects. Those advisers not only do their own studies but also instruct or advise for other researchers on how to effectively conduct information retrieval. In addition to this adviser system, the author also describes the support of user education of electronic journal (ScienceDirect) for laboratory members.
