Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 47, Issue 12
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  • The new library and the life of mind
    Charles HENRY, written, Kazuko TAKAGI, transl.
    2005 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 779-785
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: March 01, 2005
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.47.779
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    On the premise that the 21st Century is the new century of libraries the author describes form of libraries which makes one's life of mind enriched and brings vitality on it. This new libraries not only deeply influence upon traditional print materials, digital multimedia resources, production and preservation of cultural heritage or organization of knowledge but also approach various aspects of society, academic studies and one's life. The author introduces some examples of those libraries, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Archive, Travelers in the Middle East Archive, Large Hadron Collider, and Valley of the Shadow: the American Civil War. To construct those libraries it is indispensable that research libraries make strong and sustainable partnership with academic societies or associations. He also discusses various issues this partnership focuses on.
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  • Use of information services in Asian nations No. 4: Japan Establishment of the consortia of electronic journals in JANUL and future issues
    Yoshito ITOH
    2005 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 786-795
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: March 01, 2005
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.47.786
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    The electronic journal taskforce of the Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) has established large consortia for subscribing electronic journals from 2002. There were a lot of issues to be solved when subscribing electronic journals in the national universities in Japan. The activities of the taskforce to build the consortia with large publishers were discussed in detail. The taskforce has now maintained the consortia having more than 12,000 full-text electronic journals in total. Most of the national universities have joined the consortia. The issues remained were also discussed in the paper. In order to maintain the consortia and build new ones the sustainability of the electronic taskforce of JANUL should be considered. Furthermore, new alternatives of scholarly communication should be also explored.
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  • Future of investigational drugs databases—Part 2 —Comparison of the functionalities and survey of the trend of use—No.1
    PINET 21
    2005 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 796-805
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: March 01, 2005
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.47.796
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    This article traces the trends in the investigational drug databases (the DB), important information sources for R&D of medical drugs since 2000 when the first survey was conducted, and clarifies the recent trend of the DB, issues and demands from the users. As the first half part of the whole article, this deals with 1) questionnaires regarding usage condition forwarded to pharmaceutical or related firms, 2) the DB comparison covering IDdb, Integrity (INT), Pharmaprojets (PPJ), R&D Insight (RDI), R&D Focus (RDF) and Asuno Shinyaku, and 3) Comparison of usability for IDdb and INT (both are DBs on Web version). It is found that while large size DB on Web version is increasingly used, traditional DB is still used very often along with CD-ROM and commercial online searched DB. It is also found that each vendor continues to make every effort to improve DB usability by introducing and implementing new functions. It is, however, found that there are seen no improvements in each DB, for instance, lack of update information related to the development stage, which seems to drive users to use several DBs at the same search session. Comparison of usability between IDdb and INT showed that the both facilitate many functions so that one is not differentiated with other, but IDdb is still anticipated that it should add download function of structural data while INT needs to improve in its individual functions, so on.
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  • Institutional repositories: Current situation and issues
    Kazuko TAKAGI
    2005 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 806-817
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: March 01, 2005
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.47.806
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    It was only a few years ago when the idea of "Institutional Repositories (IR)" first appeared, but since then many institutions in the world have started to establish IR helped by the development of software, both open source and commercial software. MIT's DSpace, University of California's eScholarship, California Institute of Technology's CODA, and University of Southampton's Soton are good examples. Many of the other IRs are still small in scale and under development. Publishers' recent changes of policy on self-archiving, governments' new policy in U.S. and U.K, and emerging search engine are expected to enhance open access via IR.
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  • Libraries and the Personal Information Protection Act
    Fumio SHIMPO
    2005 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 818-827
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: March 01, 2005
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.47.818
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    The problem regarding the handling of the personal information in libraries, such as a subject relating to the protection of the right to privacy of a reader and an incident of leakage or loss of personal information, are taken up in many cases. However, the purpose of the enactment of Five Acts concerning the protection of personal information which shall come into force on the 1st of April 2005 is neither for the protection of the right to privacy nor for punishment in case of the leakage of personal data or its abuse. Instead it just prescribes the duties to be observed by companies handling personal information.
    This paper presents the necessity for clear distinction between the problem of the privacy protection in libraries and the protection of personal information. Then considers the influence on libraries and library services by clarification of the application of a law, contents of the duties, and exclusion from application of these Acts.
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Series: Graduate school programs or recurrent education programs for society members
  • Promoting the development of seminar teaching materials on the fusion model between practice and theory: the SIT’s endless challenge toward evolution of MOT education
    Shiroh SHIMAYA
    2005 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 828-836
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: March 01, 2005
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.47.828
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    Graduate School of Engineering Management, Shibaura Institute of Technology(SIT) is the first MOT(Management of Technology) program under the new Professional Graduate School System in Japan. We will award master's degree of Management of Technology (professional degree) to more than 40 students of course completion in coming March at the first time.
    Our school continues to challenge the evolution on MOT and/or MOT education in Japan supported by advanced superiority of experiences and knowledge as top runner. Our project titled "the Development of Seminar Teaching Materials on the Fusion Model between Practice and Theory of MOT Program" was selected to one of the FY 2004 Formation Assistance for Graduate Law Schools and Other Professional Graduate Schools by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. We got confidence and took the responsibility of promoting MOT education as the selective prototype school from this honorable award.
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