Clarivate, which has provided Web of Science, acquired ProQuest and Ex Libris in 2021 and is developing solutions for university libraries with three values: Drive research excellence, increase student achievement and maximize the return on your library investments. They have many expectations from university libraries, including large badgets for electronic resources, contributions to open science, and research support. We present the challenges surrounding academic libraries and provide an overview of Clarivate's solutions, including the vast, neutral, high-quality content of the Web of Science and ProQuest, and the cutting-edge technology of Library Service Platform (LSP), Ex Libris Alma. We will discuss what direction university libraries should take.

At Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd., requests for electronic books and electronic editions of domestic magazines are increasing year by year. There is also a tendency to demand easy access and higher resolution, and it becomes necessary to respond to the changing times. I would like to introduce a case study about digitization of domestic magazines that I worked on as one of the means to solve the needs of electronic reading.

Since the 2023 G7 meeting in Japan, there has been a growing debate on open science. Policies requiring research to be published as immediate open access (OA) are being considered in Japan, and there is a growing demand for research to be provided in formats that can be rapidly discovered, accessed, and reused. In this movement, the Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), launched in 2022 with the support of the University of Tsukuba, is a new academic publishing venue that allows any institution, regardless of its size, to practice open science. Its main feature is that it enables dual language Open Research publication for Japanese-language papers in the humanities and social sciences subject area, and if certain conditions are met, the papers will be included in an international database. This is a model that not only enables the publication of research results without being restricted by language or subject area, but also allows individual researchers based in Japan to practice open science and experience its benefits.