ADACHI Jun, NEGISHI Masamitsu, TSUCHIYA Shun, KONISHI Kazunobu, OBA Takashi, OKUMURA Sayuri
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association, 53(9) 429-434, 2003
Nowadays more Japanese researches are drain off to appear in the foreign journals. Whereas, the number of titles of the foreign journals which a domestic university library purchases is decreasing sharply. We see changes on scholarly communication ; in U.S.A. and Europe has organized alliance movement of research libraries SPARC, in Japan appears some consortium contracts on electronic journals. Nevertheless, the action of Japanese academic associations toward the electronic publishing and worldwide access of own journals is inadequate, we have underdeveloped business models on electronic distribution. In order to improve such conditions, National Institute of Informatics launched a project named SPARC/JAPAN, in cooperation with the Japan Science and Technology Corporation and the university libraries in and outside the country.