We collected more than one hundred thousand English and Japanese terms respectively from medical research reports and compiled a bilingual life science thesaurus with synonym table and tree structure. We have published a Web-based thesaurus which features an associative search for medical researchers. In the course of the thesaurus development, a mouse-over dictionary for English medical terms has been also made available. In addition, we have applied the thesaurus to resolve various drug names appeared in FDA Adverse Events Reporting System. Our thesaurus will pave the way for clinical informatics that enables knowledge finding from medical documents.

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Japan Patent Information Organization (Japio) has been promoting R&D for the establishment and the dissemination of the "Technical Japanese." The concept of the Technical Japanese is to reform the Japanese language more suitable for technical writings; namely, more comprehensible for humans and more applicable to computer processing. The "Technical Japanese Project" is a project that aims to establish the systems for facilitating the Technical Japanese to be introduced to the Japanese industry, as well as to create and carry out a scenario for the dissemination. This paper outlines the Technical Japanese Project, including its background, main activities and future view.

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Recently, the use of Internet resources has increased in the references of articles in scholarly journals. Readers may not be able to access to the Internet references later, because the Web pages are frequently revised or removed. This study examines the availability of 858 Internet references cited or referred to in the articles published in four library and information science journals in 2005 and 2007. 28% of the Internet references in 2007 could not be located at the URLs that authors of articles provided, and 41% could not be located in 2005. The author tried to access the Internet references that were not found at the URLs by searching in the Web sites and using Google. The author found that 89% of the Internet references were available on the Web in 2007, and 82% were available in 2005. Archiving of Internet references, proper management of Web sites, correct citations and complete bibliographic description will improve the accessibility to the references from sources on the Internet.

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