1. Current Situation of OA Activity in Japan
Kazu Yamaji
National Institute of Informatics

2. What NII is doing in Japan
Research and education activities of academic community
SINET4: New ultra-high-speed network
Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI)
Academic Information Infrastructure Open Forum
Industrial and social
contributions
User authentication・ Establishing research groups
Authentication
in HPCI
Access Federation by
Shibboleth
VPN
Academic Resource Sharing
Infrastructure Academic
Computing Resource HPCI
Academic Information
Infrastructure
International
Collaboration and Promotion

3. What NII is doing for Academic Resources
Academic Information Infrastructure
Scholarly materials as shared resources
NII
Universities
Institutional Repository Portal
Institutional
repositories
Materials
Books, Journals
Theses and dissertations,
bulletins
Research project reports
Courseware
Patents, software
Science and statistical
Databases
Cultural heritage
Linkage
NII-REO
NII-ELS
KAKEN
CAT
Accumulation
Of results
Springer,
OUP, etc.
ca.3.4million
Articles from
societies or
bulletins
ca.2.9million
Reports of
Grants-in aid
for scientific
research
ca.0.56million
Catalogs
ca.94million
Activation
Cooperation
Aquisition &
Organizing
Crawling
Harvesting
Jointly by library Consortia and NII
Digitalization
Other
［press release, etc］
Scholarly publishers
[e-journal, e-books]
Academic societies
［academic journals］
Web
［resources in general］

4. Two Roles of Japanese University Repository
Self-archiving for the promotion of open access
　　　　　Contribution to research community
To self-archive articles in E-journal
Japan should contribute about 6-10% according to the share in total publications worldwide
Dissemination of university outcome
　　　　　Accountability to the society and the public
Dissertations
University bulletins
Databases and digital contents related to research

5. Roles of NII in Repository Promotion
Funding ( )
For start-up
Research and development
Support for IR community activities
Adding value service (2005-)
Portal services of repositories
Statistics and evaluation
Support tools
Currently ongoing activity (2012-)
IR cloud service: JAIRO Cloud
Organizing the IR promotion committee

6. NII-funded Programs
NII-IRP (Institutional Repositories Program)
Phase 1 : FY
Phase 2 : FY
Phase 3 : FY
Three categories of funding
Area 1: Support for developing IRs and content creation
Area 2: Research and development
Area 3: Support for community activities
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Area 1 (Institutions) 19 57 70 68 74 24 31 34
Area 2 (Projects) - 22 14 21 8 7
Area 3 (Projects) 5 4

7. Area 2: Research and Development
Project profile
Univ.
A-1
Dissertation database support package development
Univ. of Tokyo
A-3
Development of automatic document collection and registration workflow system
Kyushu Univ.
(Hitotsubashi Univ.)
B-1
Development of new XooNIps / Development and dissemination of Library module
Keio Univ.
B-3
Nationwide historic ruins excavation report repository project
Shimane Univ.
B-4
Permanent identifier verification experiment to introduce an identification function in the open access environment
Kanazawa Univ.
B-5
Standardization and upgrading of institutional repository statistics and assessment tools
Chiba Univ.
B-6
Demonstrative experiment of connecting electronic publishing and repositories in cloud computing environment
Nagoya Univ.
B-8
Development of DML (Digital Mathematical Library)
Hokkaido Univ.

8. Area 3: Support for Community Activities
Project profile
Univ. 1
Support for institutional repository community activities (DRF)
Hokkaido Univ.
(Kanazawa Univ.)
(Osaka Univ.) 2
Copyright policy database project (SCPJ) to boost open access and self archiving
Univ. of Tsukuba 3
Development of human resources for institutional repositories
Osaka Univ.
(Chiba Univ.) 4
Support for development of an institutional repository community in Kinki region
(Nara Women's Univ.) 5
Fostering regional communities for institutional repository (ShaRe2)
Hiroshima Univ.

9. Example: More on SCPJ project (1)
Outline
Investigate Japanese scholarly societies’ open access policies and publicize this information through SCPJ (Societies Copyright Policies in Japan) database.
Two Features of SCPJ database
The only database that covers OA policies of almost all Japanese academic societies (about 2,600)
No policy is a policy: to regard responses of “under consideration” or “No response” as one of the policies
SAITO Mika, HIRATA Kan, MORI Ichiro, HOSOKAWA Maki, TSUKUI Yuko, NAKAYAMA Takahiro. "New SCPJ: Let's develop an open access policy database together!" DRF International Conference 2009, Poster Session, 3-4 December, 2009, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

10. Example: More on SCPJ project (2)
Color coding of OA policy and its ratio
Color
OA policy
Num
Green
Author can archive both Pre-prints & Post-prints
156
Blue
Author can archive only Post-prints
837
Yellow
Author can archive only Pre-prints 14
White
Author can not archive
247
Gray
Under consideration
1,355

11. SCPJ Webpage

12. Expansion of IRs until 2011

13. Portal services of Japanese IRs
NII harvests almost all Japanese IRs
- JAIRO is a “gyroscope” of
IR content
- Use it to search all
IRs in Japan at once!
OAI-PMH
IRDB Content Analysis shows
how contents are growing and
gives detailed information on each IR.
CiNii is the largest database of
academic journal articles in Japan.
Metadata on journal articles
and departmental bulletins goes to CiNii and is linked to the full texts in the IRs.
junii2
junii2 is a “Dublin Core” application profile for
institutional repository with an OpenURL　
compliant schema.
It has been adopted by almost all IRs in Japan.

14. Linkage from CiNii metadata to fulltext in IR
Link to the IR

15. JAIRO : Japanese Institutional Repositories Online
To get
the detailed Stats of each IR
Narrow search by content type
Narrow search
by organization
Mainly utilized by librarians to compare their IR with others or at the inter-university paper copy and transfer services.

16. IRDB Content Analysis System

17. Expansion of IRs until 2011

18. Implementation Rate of IRs in JAPAN
Almost all national universities have their own IRs, while the implementation rate of other public/private universities hovers at xxxxxxxxxx20-30%.

19. Matters Surrounding IRs in Japan
Ministry of education and research in Japan mandated the digitalization of doctoral dissertations and their dissemination over the network.
In 2013 when the above was stated, there still were about 200 universities which does not have IRs.
There are more than 700 HEs in Japan
The universities which have already owned their IRs were also struggling with how to update and maintain the system in the sustainable manner.

20. What is JAIRO Cloud? Outline Service Architecture Target
Limited resources and less technical knowledge hamper implementation of IR especially in small universities.
JAIRO Cloud provides a shared instance of IR system on the virtual server hosted by NII since April 2012.
Service Architecture
NII offers easy-to-navigate IR platform with free-of- charge in initial stage.
An easy-to-use repository module “WEKO” developed by NII, is used in the service.
Target
More 200 IRs by the 2017 fiscal year
B Univ
A Univ
C Univ
How did it go?

21. Service Architecture

22. “JAIRO Cloud” Community
Message-board QA & Discussion
Movie Manual!

23. Current Number of IRs in Japan
■ by using JAIRO Cloud coming soon
■ by using JAIRO Coud
■ by University Own Development
Number of Repositories
Year

24. Japan is the IR Paradise
(455)
(135->651)

25. Award to WEKO and JAIRO Cloud
Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL)  2014 Prizes, Commendations of Merit

26. Types of Contents stored in Japanese IRs
Number of Full Text Contents: 1,440,211

27. Example about the Learning Materials in IR
They have large number of contents but have little about Learning Materials

28. Ranking of IR Access at Hokkaido University (HUSCAP)
8 of top 10 were Learning Materials
Educational Materials
Educational Materials
引用： 大学ICT推進協議会2011 C-2大学連携から見た学術・教育コンテンツの開発・蓄積・共有再利用
教材としての機関リポジトリコンテンツ　筑波大学図書館情報メディア系　逸村裕

29. Access Log of “graph theory” lecture note (HUSCAP)
Math class exam
Also accessed from other Univ.
Regular access via search engine
引用： 大学ICT推進協議会2011 C-2大学連携から見た学術・教育コンテンツの開発・蓄積・共有再利用
教材としての機関リポジトリコンテンツ　筑波大学図書館情報メディア系　逸村裕

30. Current R&D items in JAIRO Cloud
Log Analysis Across University
Automatic Aggregation of the Publication List.
Ex. Connecting IRs with CRIS System
Researcher CV Platform
Institutional
Repositories
Open Repository
Repository Cloud
Service in Japan
CRUD
Backend
SWORD 2.0
Search
OpenSearch
alert or
SWORD deposit
Users
Society Copyright Policy DB

31. Collaboration between IRs and OUJ
Handshake Ecosystem for Educational Contents between Institutional Repository and OER based Repository
Repository Cloud Service in Japan
GLOBEreferatory.jp
A Univ
OCW Repo
B Univ
Other IRs
in Japan
Powered by
OER Asia Harvester
Learning Materials
in IRs by OAI-PMH
Future Plan
OAI-PMH
by junii2 format

32. Go to Research Data

33. Asian OA Community