J-STAGE: System for Publishing and Linking Electronic Journals

Since 1999 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has been operating J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic), a system helping academic societies in Japan to create and publish their own electronic journals. J-STAGE supports the entire process of online publishing: submission / reception of research papers, peer review, judgment, editing, and loading articles on the web site. Users can search and retrieve articles by keywords or their bibliographic data, and they can view their abstracts and references, and can also download the full texts in PDF format. Access policy of each journal is decided by its publisher society. Most of the journals on JSTAGE are now freely accessible, but some journals require authentication to read full text. As of the end of March 2005, about 200 journals and 80 proceedings are currently published and about 130 thousand articles are loaded on J-STAGE. Number of accesses to top page in a year is about 2,900,000, and more than 250,000 PDF are downloaded per month. In 2002, JST launched JST Link Center, which links electronic articles each other by accumulating linking data of electronic journals in cooperation with overseas linking organizations. Using JST Link Center, research papers released on J-STAGE are linked to articles on various worldwide electronic journal sites and bibliographic databases via CrossRef, PubMed link, ChemPort, and JOISLink. Links to the citing articles from the original cited articles have been now available among the articles on J-STAGE and the participating publishers in CrossRef's Forward Linking. JST has released new services like My J-STAGE, advance publication, HTML full text publication, and pay-per-view system. JST plans to collect more academic journals published in Japan on J-STAGE. The immediate target is more than 500 titles by the end of fiscal year 2006. JST also plans cooperation with Google to lead more users to J-STAGE.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes, Pratt student commentaryXAInternationa