1. 1 J-STAGE Electronic Journal Publication & Dissemination Center http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp matsubar@jst.go.jp

2. 2 J-STAGE Purposes Help academic societies to produce and publish electronic journals Assist all publication-related operations from manuscript submission, peer-reviewing to page layouting Publishing and disseminating research works of international quality promptly and widely

3. 3 Budget Funded by the Science and Technology Agency Operational budget of 2000 is about 770 million yen

4. 4 J-STAGE Features

5. 5 Author Assistance Electronic Manuscript Submission Electronic Peer-Reviewing Editorial Management Page Layouting Assistance Creating Citation Links Electronic Journal Dissemination Multimedia Supplementary Materials

6. 6 Author Assistance Develop templats for MS Word and LaTeX MS Word templates reflects final page style Allows to convert manuscript data into PDF and SGML

7. 7 Electronic Manuscript Submission Manuscripts submitted via Web Bibliographic data are also input via Web

8. 8 Electronic Peer-Reviewing Assign editors and reviewers using database Manuscripts are downloaded via Web Review results are submitted via Web

9. 9 Editorial Management Editorial offices can monitor the process status Inquiries and requests are e-mailed automatically

10. 10 Page Layouting Assistance FrameMaker+SGML is used for MS Word manuscirpts Manuscripts are automatically converted into the final page style PDF and SGML are generated automatically

11. 11 Creating Citation Links Links to major databases –JICST, PubMed, CAplus (STN) Links to major electronic journals –APS, AIP, HighWire

12. 12 Electronic Journal Dissemination Full text searching is available

13. 13 Multimedia Supplementary Materials Materials which are difficult/impossible to deliver in the printed media –Audio files –Video files and animations –High-resolution graphics

14. 14 J-STAGE System Overview Accessible 24 hours/365 days Free for academic societies Necessary hardware and software available Constructed around the Web technology

15. 15 J-STAGE System Overview Citation Link Server E-Journal Server Multimedia Server Mail Server DNS Server Firewall 保守端末 Internal Network Internet Researchers Editorial Office Printing Firm Other E-Journal Sites Terminals J-STAGE Monitoring J-STAGE Center Editors Reviewers Citation Linking IX Servers J-STAGE Development Terminals Society (1)

16. 16 Technical Aspects SGML for internal data description Microsoft Word and LaTeX for templates Web interfaces PDF for full texts Adobe‘s FrameMaker+SGML for page layouting

17. 17 Various Users Authors Peer-Reviewers Editorials Editorial Offices Printing Firms Subscribers Web Surfers

18. 18 Acceptance Issue Preparation Production Publication AuthorEditors Editorial Office Reviewers Production Office Printing Firms Subscribers Peer- Reviewing Manuscript Preparation/ Submission Receipt ( 2 ) Electronic Submission ( 3 ) Receipt (4) Assign Reviewer(s) (1 ) Manuscript Preparation ( 5 ) Review Request ( 6 ) Reviewing ( 7 ) Acceptance ( 8 ) Issue Preparation (9 ) Final Manuscript ( 10 ) Production ( 11 ) Galley Proof ( 12 ) Printing ( 13 ) Onine Publication ( 14 ) Browse Search J-STAGE CENTER INTERNET J-STAGE Work Flow

19. 19 Systems High reliability High connectivity Security

20. 20 Current Status Started development in 1998. 10 Publicly available since 1999. 10. 5 37 academic societies made an application to use J-STAGE, and 22 journals are now using J-STAGE 80 societies are expected by March, 2001 500 societies are expected in a few years

21. 21 Journal List BIOPHYSICS Cell Structure and Function Japanese Heart Journal Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Journal of Chemical Software Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry Journal of Nippon Medical School Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology Journal of Physiologycal Anthropology Journal of Reproduction and Development and others

22. 22 J-STAGE Homepage

23. 23 J-STAGE Abstract

24. 24 J-STAGE Full Text (PDF)

25. 25 Practical Use Use from Journal Production Progress Use of a Wide Use Template of FrameMaker + SGML

26. 26 Plans More academic societies XML Functionality –More links(CrossRef, Chemport) –Meeting abstracts Higher performance

27. 27 The Committee on XML for J-STAGE More efficient application of electronic data Difinition of DTD for XML Develop the tools and programs for XML MathML XSL Distributed processing system XML Schema XML Namespaces

28. 28 Contact Yukitaka Matsubara (matsubar@jst.go.jp) http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp