The three key services of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) are : 1. relief services for adverse health effects, 2. review and 3. post-marketing safety measures. During the new drug review process, PMDA reviews the quality, efficacy and safety of new drugs for marketing approval using the common technical document (CTD). Thus, the integrity of the CTD data presented by the applicants is very important. Based on the evaluation, some drugs are not approved because they are ineffective or harmful. The PMDA is actively improving the public health and safety in Japan.

Information literacy education is frequently carried out at university. In corporations, it is often carried out as part of in-house education at the time of entry, but both of them seem to have not clearly positioned the original purpose and the ability setting aimed at. So I grasp the current situation and examined what should be the original information literacy. In this paper, it can be said that information literacy is equivalent to the ability required from “data” to “information” level by collating with the idea of “problem solving process for decision making” that companies are working on. I believe this should be a common understanding between universities and companies. What is different is the expected effect at each opportunity and you need to understand and recognize it clearly. In addition, education personnel are required to have sufficient understanding and consciousness, and in particular personnel in charge of enterprises are required to have a higher level of experience.

Open Science represents a new approach to the scientific process by using digital technologies and collaboration tools on the Internet. A scholarly information discovery service needs to support research datasets as one of the typical research products in Open Science. A scholarly knowledge graph is crucial for a discovery service since relationships among research entities are important to help researchers to find research datasets. Examples of overseas discovery services introduce important features like the knowledge graph and altmetrics. CiNii Research is a new Japanese discovery service to find Japanese research activities under development by NII.

An Introduction to iThenticate, an online service for monitoring originality of documents, which was in operation at more than 120 institutes as of October 2018. Starting with a brief explanation for how to use the service, we then give you an update on the latest contents on our database with a particular attention to those in Japanese, which have been claimed to be small in number. We have included examples of circumstances in which universities, institutes and private companies launched iThenticate as a tool for accomplishing Research Integrity. We hope this article will act as a guideline for institutes that are considering introducing iThenticate.