In order to preserve iconic documents and to increase its utilization, managers and librarians have overcome various problems aiming at the realization of perfect image database and collection management system. This paper describes its historical development from 1960's to present time along the process from its origin that we thirsted for image database to the construction of system in which Internet is utilized. Several projects which promoted its historical development, and its constructed system are outlined as well. Also it is commented on its evaluation, various problems involved in technical innovations, a life of digital media, and problems now we are facing such as copyright, etc.

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This paper investigates the various methods utilized in the teaching of information education in new interdisciplinary university departments and discusses future trends in information education. Meeting the needs of society should be the foremost consideration of information education in interdisciplinary university departments. Considering the current state of technology in society it is a bygone conclusion that merely concentrating on teaching components of computer literacy such as utilization of application software and programming language cannot hope to meet the needs of modern society. The future trend in interdisciplinary university department information education will undoubtedly stress information literacy such as information application, information management and the ethical responsibilities of information application and management. This paper also proposes a core group of information education subjects which emphasize information literacy and lastly discusses future themes in this field.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of the internationalization of four English-language journals in Japan in life sciences based on the papers published in each of journals during the period of 1992-1994. The journals were identified by impact factors （IFs） according to the Journal Citation Reports （JCR） for the 1994 volume. The mean IFs to the top 25 citing and cited journals were compared in order to evaluate their international contribution. The journals （Journal of Biochemistry, Japanese Journal of Cancer Research, Japanese Journal of Physiology） published in Japan did not have an international reputation except for International Immunology in terms of IFs and geographic distribution of authors. The editorial policy and strategy have to be established in order to receive a large international readership.

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As the sixth lecture of this series,"utilization of E-mail" is explained. From basic setting and using methods for E-mail softs which are frequently used in personal computers to mail services such as mailing list, E-mail newspaper, etc., which are carried out in Internet, this lecture is introduced together with a lot of URLs. Particularly concerning security and privacy, explanations are carried out for encipherment, anonymous mail transfer service, chain-mail, and addressing advertisement using e-mail interspersing with its actual cases.

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Various commercial database services on WWW are described with page examples. Some are serviced by traditional online vendors, some, by newcomers, and some by database producers. All target end-user market.

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The correction is only for Japanese text.

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