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 2007SSP Annual Meeting in San Francisco

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%

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

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

Competitive Research Funds Allocated to Universities by Ministry of Education, Culture,

Sports, and S&T in 2005

1. Tokyo University 1512. Kyoto University 953. Osaka University 694. Tohoku University 675. Nagoya University 486. Hokkaido University 447. Kyushu university 43

11.Keio University 19

(Million $)

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

Users and Librarians will choose…

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