The recent improvements on circulation of research results at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency

The sharing of information about scientific research results on the Internet has developed with the current global advancement of open science, including archiving and disseminating scientific papers in institutional repositories, facilitating access to and use of research data etc. Accessibility to such large volumes of information on the Internet is a very important issue. Without solving the accessibility issue, those contents may remain grey literature. This paper introduces the case study of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Library as an example of its efforts to improve the circulation of research results in terms of grey literature. JAEA has disseminated information of our research results via the Internet for over decade, but three main issues remain to be solved, aimed at improving the accessibility of grey literature in the open science era; (1) to ensure accessibility of our Internet contents, (2) to consider how our target users find our contents, (3) to improve the user interface of our contents. Finally, we consider enriching the contents of the JAEA Reports and accelerating the circulation of the JAEA R&D results by paying attention to the global trend of open science.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa