Globally, the open access (OA) movement has long sought to liberate scholarly communication from commercial publishers. But Japan pursues open access and open science from a unique context; that approach has often blurred the OA landscape and left Japanese academics perplexed. In this article, I will explore how economic history…
Le Japon déploie aujourd’hui son Baromètre de la science ouverte, directement inspiré du modèle français, pour évaluer l’essor des pratiques ouvertes dans la recherche. Fruit d’une collaboration franco-japonaise, cette initiative souligne une nouvelle fois l’influence pionnière de la France en matière de science ouverte.
« The above was the theme of ‘Persistent Identifiers for Open Science in Japan (and Asia Pacific)’ [English/Japanese], held on 12 December 2023 in Tokyo and co-located with the International Symposium on Data Science 2023 (DSWS-2023; see below for…
« The NDL Image Bank showcases items from the National Diet Library’s substantial collection of visual materials, including ukiyo-e woodblock prints, books, magazines, and other forms of published media (…) »
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All the images in the NDL Image Bank are taken from digitized, public-domain content…
« The Japan Science & Technology Agency (JST) has posted their revised JST Policy on Open Access to Research Publications and Research Data Management (JST Open Science Policy) at the end of April 2022 (see bottom of Strategy Page). According to the JST website, “This policy defines JST’s…
« We are annoucing our new vision which will set the policy for the next five years, « National Diet Library Vision 2021–2025: The Digital Shift at the National Diet Library. »
We are now planning seven initiatives that are intended over the next five years to better connect information resources with…
« Today, the University of Tsukuba launched its own open access publishing hub that will enable researchers to publish in either English or Japanese. (…) »
« The Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have successfully reached agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan’s open access (OA) goals, beginning January 1,…
« Japan Search is a national platform for aggregating the metadata of digital resources from various fields and providing an integrated search service, as well as an API, to promote the use of content. As of August 25, Japan Search collects over 21 million metadata. (…) »
« Dr. Yasushi Ogasaka, Director of the Department for Information Infrastructure at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), gave the keynote presentation at the inaugural Asia-Pacific meeting of the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) in Hong Kong in June 2019. This paper, based Dr. Ogasaka’s address, shares the evolution…
