The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association
Online ISSN : 2189-8278
Print ISSN : 0913-3801
ISSN-L : 0913-3801
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  • Volume 65 (2015) Issue 2 Pages 54-59
    Past and Future of Information Professionals in Corporate Environment : Rise of Embedded Librarianship and Its Challenges(<Special feature>Future of information professionals)
    Kyoko Toyoda
    By comparing the work at Business Resource Center of a foreign-capital financial institution which I worked 20 years ago and the job I currently engaged in at a corporate communication agency, the change of information professional's role in corporate environment from information gathering to knowledge screening is reviewed. And introduce embedded librarians that have lately called significant attention in the U.S, and share how they emerged and how they were accepted by user groups. Then discuss the new role of corporate librarians, or information professionals, in dissolving the filter bubble.
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  • Volume 66 (2016) Issue 6 Pages 282-288
    Proposal on Solution to Corporate Management Problems: Case Study on Drug Store Chain Company
    Masahide YONEDA, Masaru IWAKI, Mari KOIZUMI, Natsuko KONNO, Nanako TAKANO, Masako HARADA, Shinichi YAMANE, Masaaki MIYAGISHIMA
    For most companies, it may be necessary to receive the proposal of solution of problems by external consultants when it is hard to solve them alone. On this study, we executed the imaginary case study on a second level drugstore company A. In the drugstore industry, there is intense movement of deregulation and restructuring and second level company is thought to need proposal from external specialists.
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  • Volume 66 (2016) Issue 5 Pages 222-229
    How Would You Define a Good Company?: Success Factors for the Company you aim at
    Kazuhiko YAGATA, Yumiko KOYAMA, Teppei TSUCHIDA, Takashi NOGUCHI, Noriko OKA, Tetsuya TSUKAHARA, Seishi MIKAMI
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  • Volume 68 (2018) Issue 9 Pages 458-461
    Collection of trade paper in the library
    Jun YOSHII

    The trade paper is a superior reference tool helping intelligence. The characteristics include that the circulation is restrictive in addition to the depth of breaking news-related contents, but more people can take it in a hand by providing a trade paper in the community library where various people can access. The document which can know what kind of newspaper there is limited and it has a long it and should collect continuing thing, being third-class mail, publication mother’s bodies as a document evaluation point. It can inflect as a document with statistics, personnel affairs information in the reference.
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  • Volume 69 (2019) Issue 8 Pages 387-389
    “Transformative agreements” and “Transformation” of JUSTICE
    Koichi OJIRO
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  • Volume 70 (2020) Issue 2 Pages 83-86
    Landscape of evolving preprint
    Koichi OJIRO
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  • Volume 66 (2016) Issue 3 Pages 115-121
    Peer review: Issues and antidotes
    Sho SATO
    Although peer review is the core distinguishing feature of the modern scholarly communication, the feature has not worked today because there are too many researchers and articles for the capacity of the system. As a result, new issues such as absence of reviewers, false peer review and fake reviewer are arising in addition to traditional issues such as reviewer misconduct and bias. To cope with these new and traditional issues, some publishers and researchers have started new approaches including Publons, portable peer review, open peer review and Peer Review Evaluation. However, no one knows whether we can prolong the life of peer review system with the new approaches.
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  • Volume 67 (2017) Issue 4 Pages 171-178
    Comparison of Tools for Research Performance Analysis
    Masako TORIYA

    Databases of journals, research analytics tools and researcher profiling tools enable research organizations to assess research performance. This article provides the futures of these databases and tools and explanation about their relationship. We discuss key issues surrounding the assessment of research performance: how to creath object research groups, how to analyze social sciences and humanities. We also consider the importance for institutions of constructing integrated data management system and decision-making process in order to promote research.
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  • Volume 69 (2019) Issue 2 Pages 89-93
    Plan S: Principles and Implementation
    Yutaka HAYASHI
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  • Volume 64 (2014) Issue 10 Pages 388-394
    Public Library and Community : Distributing Knowledge/Information and Getting People Together(<Special feature>Various approaches to create user communities)
    Haruki Nagata
    Public library has emerged and developed in the community context as a function to distribute knowledge and information among people. At first, the public the library history in Britain was looked at as the model. Reviewing the developments of library from its formation of "civic" library up to current "community library", the author understands that the required functions of public library have changed with the problems in community, such as policy issues, information technology and so on. Identifying the necessary roles of contemporary libraries, libraries which prepare for "social capital" and "creative capital" are explored. Some comments on the lately prevailing "micro-library" are attached.
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  • Volume 60 (2010) Issue 2 Pages 68-74
    The current situation and issues of computer game archives(<Special feature>Preservation: deterioration of media and measures)
    Toshiyuki GOTO
    Computer games are considered a big business as well as an element of contemporary culture; therefore, they need to be archived. Issues concerning computer game archives are short life span of the media and technological obsolescence. Measures such as migration and emulation can address these issues. Emulation is expected to be a good strategy; however, it is not yet perfect and runs the risk of infringing copyrights or patents. Several computer game archives have been developed, but they have not collected all the games ever made. This article suggests that cooperation and coordination between game companies and computer game archives need to be facilitated. In addition, libraries should participate in archiving computer games more than in the current situation.
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  • Volume 64 (2014) Issue 11 Pages 481-484
    Different point of Based Social Game and Gamification(Special report)
    Tae MATSUMOTO
    Game of education is not necessarily beneficial for all learners. In fact, it is possible for game of education to inhibit learner motivation. Gamification, based serious games and the social game have been taken to the education of the game. However, there are neither a thesis nor a book that describes these different points clearly. This paper will report the results of the questionnaire as well as discuss the points that need to be considered when applying gamification, based serious games and social games.
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  • Volume 62 (2012) Issue 12 Pages 527-532
    Game research : Now and in the future(<Special feature>Game as a service)
    Hiroyuki IIDA
    In this article we present an overview of game research based on the model of three masters: the master of winning, the master of playing and the master of understanding. They correspond to each of the three aspects that games possess: competitiveness, entertainment, and interaction between intelligences of players. Then the human intelligence and artificial intelligence are compared with focus on the "resigning" in games, and "opponent modeling". Moreover, we introduce two innovative approaches: "game-refinement theory" and "game information dynamics" to observe the two aspects of games: entertainment and intellectual interaction, respectively. A man-machine match is shown to analyze the information energy in the field of game.
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  • Volume 62 (2012) Issue 12 Pages 502-507
    Games as a service platforms(<Special feature>Game as a service)
    Toru FUJIMOTO
    The paper presented the essential game elements and framework to understand the concept of "Games as service platforms", and discussed how a game-based approach can be used for social change. The paper also addressed the structural changes in terms of the business models of game industry as well as the potential impact on the information service industry. 3-level design approaches that demonstrated how to infuse game elements in information services were introduced. By illustrating these approaces in a library services context, the author argued the potential of games to innovate the design of information service platforms.
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  • Volume 63 (2013) Issue 9 Pages 369-376
    Cyber infrastructure for the humanities(<Special feature> e-Science: Present and Future)
    Kiyonori NAGASAKI
    Although cyber infrastructure has been a topic of concern since the 1940's, its position as a forefront issue has recently been increasing, along with the importance of the engagement of researchers of the humanities. One of the main venues for these discussions is the main international collaborative organization, ADHO, in which Japanese researchers have now become participants. In the field of the digital humanities, there remain various issues to be resolved such as intellectual property. Evaluation and pedagogy are addressed to create new frameworks in the US. Japan should contribute to the situation to a certain degree.
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  • Volume 63 (2013) Issue 9 Pages 358-362
    e-Science and Information Science : Riding Paradigm Shift(<Special feature> e-Science: Present and Future)
    Tomoko Y. Steen
    e-Science has become widely used since its introduction by John Taylor, the Director General of the United Kingdom's Office of Science and Technology. Many sciences have changed from being hypothesis driven to being data driven. Information science is also changing to fulfill new expectations. Much larger data sets need to be assembled and delivered at a faster rate. In fulfilling such needs, information specialists at governments, universities, and the private sector have made progress in recent years. In this article, I will introduce information specialists'new effort by using some examples. I will also discuss scientists'expectations of archives and libraries, and information specialists in terms of knowledge and skills. e-Science is also borderless and the information is often required to be disseminated in multiple languages.
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  • Volume 66 (2016) Issue 5 Pages 202-209
    Talk-and-Talk, "Expanding Big Data and their Use by Information Professionals"
    Hirohumi ABE, Kenji SUZUMURA, Anders KARLSSON
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  • Volume 54 (2004) Issue 12 Pages 629-633
    Bioinformatics(<Special feature>Trends in technology of information retrieval)
    Hiroshi HAYASHI
    Life is sustained by two informational systems, namely the genetic system and the sensory system. In the genetic (but not sensory) information system, information is duplicated, transcribed and translated following the "central dogma" which is symbolically expressed as DNA→RNA→Protein. The flow of information is one dimensional like the information that is contained in written language by using characters. Therefore, genetic information is suitable for computers to store, compare, edit, analyze and visualize. The linkage between biological information and computer-based information processing is discussed.
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  • Volume 64 (2014) Issue 9 Pages 357-360
    Road to archiving of information relating to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency Library(<Special feature>Earthquake disaster archives)
    Mayuki GONDA, Kiyoshi IKEDA, Shun NAGAYA
    We introduce post-Great East Japan Earthquake situation of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency Library and our efforts to distribute information about the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident. After that, we describe our activities about the archiving of information relating to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and its feature.
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  • Volume 69 (2019) Issue 11 Pages 529-534
    Opportunities expanded by the new breed of scholarly databases
    Nobuko MIYAIRI

    While a wide range of scholarly information becomes available online and standardized, the sheer volume and diversifying content types make it challenging to structure the data for cross-analysis. In recent years, new scholarly databases are being released attempting to overcome such challenges by leveraging natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, or automating the metadata acquisition process. This article offers an overview of the factors enabling the new breed of databases with selected examples to discusses how such new tools would influence the future of the scholarly information market.
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