Journal of Information Processing and Management

The author describes how libraries are involved in copyright matters focusing on the photocopying and circulation. Photocopying of works is done without any permission of the copyright holder by libraries specified under the provision of Copyright Law Article 31, otherwise ones must obtain permission from copyright holders in advance of photocopying. There currently exists copyright clearance mechanism represented by organizations such as Japan Reprographic Rights Center (JRRC), The Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance, Inc. (JAACC), Japan Copyright Licensing System Co. Ltd. (JCLS). Each of those organizations is briefed. Besides lending right which is not applied to books and journals under the Additional Clauses of the Copyright Law is discussed in terms of how the right will affect library activities if it is applied to books, journals, so on.

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The technical journal R&D Review of Toyota CRDL was first published in 1964 with the aim of reporting the results of our ongoing research activities to the wider community. Paper publication of the journal ceased in 2001, with the journal being released in electronic format reflecting improvements in the Internet user environment. As a result, the electronic journal version has brought more diversity of effects and various practical usage than the printed one.

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As we see nowadays, end user information retrieval systems have been spread for the wider use. Information retrieval systems for end users at R&D departments of companies have been increasingly common. This article describes how successfully Corporate Research & Development of UBE INDUSTRIES, Ltd. had tackled to construct an information retrieval system for end users, and briefs the “Information Retrieval Adviser System” being emerged from the IR system construction. It is based on the policy that research or information retrieval should be done by researchers or scholars themselves who are actually engaged in R&D, invention and so on. The Company continues to introduce end user oriented information retrieval systems and the necessary end user education or orientation. In detail each research department selects “information retrieval advisers” for the purposes of making the end user education more effectively, and raising its effects. Those advisers not only do their own studies but also instruct or advise for other researchers on how to effectively conduct information retrieval. The author also describes various disputes emerged in the course of setting this adviser system, and the education contents to follow in near future.

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With the development of genome/post-genome research, the genomic information such as a gene sequence, an amino acid sequence and a data of three-dimensional structure of protein is becoming more and more important because the genomic information is necessary for the genomics-based drug discovery, for example in computer-screening method. The current patent system dose not allow the genomic information to be protected although they are important for the genomics-based drug discovery. This article explains the actual status of the protection of the genomic information in the patent system, and discusses this issue.

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