Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
Volume 44, Issue 5
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  • Sachie NOGUCHI
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 309
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2001
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    The role of consortia has grown significantly in the past few years. This acceleration can be attributed to the rapid development of information technology and the rise in cost and quantity of electronic information resources. While traditional print practice of ownership is through purchase, electronic resources are licensed through network services. It is to provide users better access to more information, that academic libraries turned to consortia to deal with licensing. Library consortia use their size and buying power to obtain significant price breaks and expanded services. Consortia licensing became a hot issue when library consortia concentrated on providing their membership with a coordinated approach to negotiating and maintaining licenses for electronic resources. In this article, consortia, consortia licensing, model licenses, and license negotiation are discussed. The addresses of selected Web sites related to consortial licensing are also provided.
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  • -From the articles of newspaper-
    Koji SUEHIRO, Takashi YAMAGUCHI
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 319
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2001
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    Nowadays, the term “Patent wars” is often heard. In this paper, the cause of an increasing interest toward the Patent wars is analyzed. The analysis is based on the articles of newspaper, and the author examined the tendency of its increase, propatent policy and its relation to suits regarding to patents, and the contents of the recent articles. The analysis showed that the correlation with the application of the information technology field, for example the patents of business method and the patents of genome, is extremely remarkable. According to this result, the author states how each country corresponds to improvement and optimization of the operation for the legal system, speedup of the examination, and early solution of the trouble.
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  • -Current trends concerning the legal protection of databases as a sui generis right in the European Union-
    Takashi NAGATSUKA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 322
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2001
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    Based on the spread of the Internet, the number of database types as well as the range of their usage and supply is growing rapidly. Apart from databases which are protected by copyright as the author’s own intellectual creation, especially fact databases storing data such as individual entries from telephone directories, real estate information, genomic information, and information on horseracing or auctions are increasingly made use of at many places in society. It is summarized the characteristics of EC Database Directive on the legal protection of databases which defines the protection of databases as a sui generis right irrespective of whether the database constitutes the author’s own intellectual creation, but provided that substantial investment has been made. It also presents the subsequent national legislation in the countries of the EU as well as most recent cases related to the subject. The historical changes in the United States, in Europe and in Japan concerning the legal protection of databases are shown and the future direction is discussed.
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  • -HOWDY: An integrated human genome database-
    Mika HIRAKAWA, Katsuji MATSUMURA, Masako KURODA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 342
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2001
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    More than 90 percent of the whole human genomic DNA that includes 3 billion bases has sequenced and published by the Human Genome Project over past 10 years. The innovation of the computer technology has had a significant impact on the project. As a part of ALIS (Advanced Science Information Systems) Project, we have developed a database named HOWDY that can link many different human genome databases on the Internet dynamically. HOWDY allows scientists to search any human genomic data by putting one query word such as a gene symbol, an accession number and a keyword. In preparation for the future, innovative databases like this will be the key to solve bioinformatics problems.
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Series: The Internet and information 3
  • Soichiro UEHARA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 356
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2001
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    According to the data of year of 2000 about 50 million people have used the Internet (not only through PCs but also through cellular phones), and e-commerce amounted to over 824 billion yen and 21 trillion and 640 billion yen for B to C (Business to Consumers) and for B to B (Business to Business) respectively. On the other hand we have seen that Japan’s legislative arrangement on IT related is behind those of other countries. It means that the current IT environment has not been prepared for its comfortable and safe use in national lives and corporate activities in Japan. Thus the Government set up the IT Strategy Council in July, 2000. Then it enacted a new law related to IT under the slogan “to become a supreme IT nation in the world within these five years”. The Government also started to revise the current laws which might give some hindrance to get IT spread out more widely. This paper mainly discusses those laws or bills, and along with them tax issues in e-commerce and copyright issues.
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