Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 45, Issue 9
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Commentary article
  • Outline and explanation of the revised Japan Patent Law
    Yoshisue TSUNODA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 601-607
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2002
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.601
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    The Japan Patent Law has been revised so often so as to meet with the needs of users. The revision this time was a part of the above situation and focused on a point corresponding to the IT progress made in our society. The Japan Patent Office decided to amend an examination criterion such that an element of a computer program specified in a claim is deemed as an invention of a product and this criterion is effective from the patent applications filed on Jan. 10, 2001. The revision in the definition of “working” of the invention in this law was to clarify this point legally. In another aspect, in order to firmly protect interests of patentees in correspondence with IT progress, a revision was made where subjective requirements to indirect infringement provisions are added to the conventional objective requirements. Further a revision was made such that it became mandatory for an applicant to make technical information or documents relating to prior art which are relevant to every patent application disclosed in its specification in order to ask users' cooperation for accelerating the patent examination process.
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  • Fostering IT human resources in Asia-Pacific-Australia: Projects for encouraging IT-industry are just starting
    Yoshikazu NIWA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 608-612
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2002
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.608
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    Though Australia is known as an IT advanced country of the world, but it is limited on the use side of IT symbolized by “e-government”. On the other hand, industry side is surprisingly delayed, and depend on imports from US, Japan and Asia. Government is fully aware of this point, and many kinds of policies are hammered out abundantly for IT industry rearing. As for human resources, they increase capacity of IT-department of the university and expand IT professional school, removing chronic lack of the IT technician. One Industry-Government-Academic connection project, named as “the Oz-style Silicon Valley plan” also begins to take action, which is expected to rear ultramodern IT technician.
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  • Linking in the scholarly information environment
    —S·F·X and OpenURL—
    Yutaka MASUDA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 613-620
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2002
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.613
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    This article highlights S·F·X and OpenURL standard. S·F·X is the one of the most advanced linking solution for the Web-based scholarly information communication. It solves the problems of conventional closed linking and performs navigation to the Appropriate Copy with context sensitive link technology. S·F·X integration for CrossRef is mentioned briefly. OpenURL is the standard for Web-transportable package of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. This article briefly talks about the syntax of draft version and also the status of the Committee AX that is formed to implement the proposed standard at US National Information Standards Organization.
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  • Scientific portals
    —a View from biology, chemistry and medical fields—
    Noriko KOJIMA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 9 Pages 621-629
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2002
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.621
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    In this Internet explosion, digitization of journals and database enhancements are proceeding quickly. Researchers now need a comprehensive gateway to get out into the ocean of information and this article aims to provide an introductory to scientific portals. First, the requirements of portals are determined, and scientific articles are pointed out that the portals should most guide their users to. Unique features to support article distributing portals, such as full-text linking and alerts, are described with examples before introducing each portals. Covers portals of both in Japan and overseas, with attempts of publishers and trends in secondary database service enhancements.
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Introductory article
University library tour
Opinion
Copyright and common-sense
The U.S. libraries report
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