Japanese librarians improve scholarly communication
1. What can Japanese librarians do
for the better scholarly
communicaton?
Midori Ichiko (市古みどり）
Kitasato Memorial Medical Library,
Keio University
midori@lib.keio.ac.jp
June 07 2007
SSP Annual Meeting in San Francisco
2. Result of Questionnaire applied
Keio University in 2006
• Subscriptions
– Agree with cancellation (printed) 57%
– As many journals as possible 41%
• EJ only or both Printed and EJ
– Agree with EJ only 85%
– Both EJ and Printed 13%
• Contribution from users
– $12/M 24%
– $10/M 7%
– $8/M 41%
– No answer 28%
3. Urgent Issue 1
• Fact
– Price of printed and electronic journals have
been increasing dramatically in the past 10
years
• Outcome
– Keio University doesn’t have enough budget
to supply it’s users with 4,800 health sciences
journals for research
– As one of the prestigious universities in Japan,
we would like to subscribe to all of these
journals
4. Urgent Issue 2
• Fact
– There are restrictions on the number of
organizations and the number of users
according to the EJ contracts
• Outcome
– We find this difficult and inconvenient since
there is a lot of collaborative research
participated by researchers from other
institutions and medical practitioners
5. Competitive Research Funds Allocated to
Universities by Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, and S&T in 2005 (Million $)
1. Tokyo University 151
2. Kyoto University 95
3. Osaka University 69
4. Tohoku University 67
5. Nagoya University 48
6. Hokkaido University 44
7. Kyushu university 43
11.Keio University 19
6. Proposal
• Development of new evaluation methods
– To understand the necessity of budget
increase allocated for academic information
– To strengthen the infrastructure required for
research and education
7. Users and Librarians will choose…
Quantity
Quality
Cost
Accessibility
System X PubMed
Google Scholar
