This presentation explains the four projects of Digital Repository Federation in Japan from the view points of a usage-centered approach to institutional repositories.This is a presentation for SPARC Digital Repository Meeting 2008 held by SPARC, SPARC Europe, SPARC Japan on the 17th and 18the of Novemver 2008 at Baltimore in the United States

Katayama Shunji

Sugita Shigeki

Suzuki Hiroko

Uchijima Hideki

Kanazawa University Repository for Academic Resources

IR INITIATIVE AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION IN JAPANHIDEKI UCHIJIMA*   SHIGEKI SUGITA** HIROKO SUZUKI***   SHUNJI KATAYAMA*****KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY  **HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY ***CHIBA UNIVERSITY ****OSAKA UNIVERSITYA usage-centered approach to the promotion of institutional repositories2008/12/151SPARC DR Meeting 2008Today’s contentsy What does DRF want to do?y DRF’s basic strategies for IR sustainability y Four usage-centered approaches:{ Public relations tactics for IR awareness & visibility{ IR cures ILL : IRs to replace ILL/DD for domestic scholarly  communication in Japan{ AIRway: seamless integration of licensed and open access online resources{ ROAT: Repository Output Assessment Tools to standardize  download statisticsy Future prospects2008/12/152SPARC DR Meeting 2008What is DRF (Digital Repository Federation) ?Formed as a collaborative initiative by librarians in Japan in 2006 with financial supports of Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI) of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) to support digital repository projectsMembership of  86 libraries of universities and research institutions as of November 2008Aiming at promoting IR in Japan by forming an IR communityfor the improvement of scholarly communication in JapanActivities include communication(Wiki, Mailing List, Workshops, Int’l conference etc) and Project Clusters carried out and coordinated by core members2008/12/153SPARC DR Meeting 2008Usage leads to SustainabilityAmong its basic ideas is:that the enhancement of usage of IR should lead to the sustainability of IRWhen things are not used,they are forgotten, they are neglected,they are unsupported,they are unfunded, they are unstaffed, and finallythey will be goneAdvocacy alone does not appeal!!You have to show that it is being used, and that therefore it is useful2008/12/154SPARC DR Meeting 2008Upload just in time-Examples of PR Tactics by Kyoto-Case 1:y Prof. YAMANAKA,  CELL vol.131 no.5y Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors (an article on iPS cells)Case 2:y 2 Nobel Prize-Winning physicists’ articles (Publisher Version)y Professors emeritus of Kyoto , Toshihide Masukawa and of KEK, Makoto Kobayashi,  who once worked in Kyoto y CP-Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction, Theory of Theoretical Physics  1973 49-2  p.652-6572008/12/155SPARC DR Meeting 2008アクセス タイプ 掲載誌等430 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 22(1), 4-8325 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 38(4), 481-511296 Article Cell; 131(5), 861-872      Professor Yamanaka’s article on iPS cell293 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 47(1), 12-24259 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 49(2), 59-69255 Research Report京都大学大学院経済学研究科Working Paper; 73238 Thesis226 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 29(4), 468-485221 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 33(3), 303-316213 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 44(2), 93-97212 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 38(3), 271-446208 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 30(4), 401-419205 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 22(2), 197-213204 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 49(2), 120-122200 Conference PaperProceedings of the International Symposium on SEASTAR2000 and Bio-logging Science (The 5th SEASTAR2000 Workshop); 52-63195 Thesis185 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 44(1), 11-24183 Kiyo 京都大学医療技術短期大学部紀要; 19, 1-9174 Book171 Kiyo 京都大学医学部保健学科紀要: 健康科学; 2, 89-106169 Kiyo The Review of Physical Chemistry of Japan; 44(1), 1-10166 Research Report藤月会論集; 16165 Kiyo 東南アジア研究; 22(3), 307-315164 Kiyo 京都大学大学院経済学研究科Working Paper; 71161 Thesis160 Kiyo 京都大学文学部哲学研究室紀要 : PROSPECTUS; 9, 69-84156 Thesis152 ThesisKURENAI(Kyoto’s IR) Top 30 accesses from domains outsides JP’      i  i  2008/12/15SPARC DR Meeting 2008Kyoto University LibraryNews announcing the archiveof Novel-Prize Winners’ article2008/12/157SPARC DR Meeting 2008Novel-Prize Winners’ article (Publisher’s version)By Maskawa & Kobayashi(1973)2008/12/158SPARC DR Meeting 2008AIRway :  the idea2008/12/15SPARC DR Meeting 20089y AIRway helps resolve  OpenURLs of OA documents on IR, thereby seamlessly incorporating repository content into users’ search experience y Link resolvers have come to be commonly used in research libraries, almost unbeknownst to campus users, so the AIRway server can help them improve their function of offering appropriate copies to the benefit of usersy Users will be automatically led to some copy of the document they wantFrom the end user’s point of viewFront-end interfaceLink ResolverCopies in licensed titles2008/12/1510SPARC DR Meeting 2008Authors’ versionon institutionalrepositoriesGoogleYahoo!A sample of the search result by SFX from Tsukuba University2008/12/1511SPARC DR Meeting 2008Link to OA content in IRLink to a content in Science DirectA sample of search result by OCLC WorldCat Link manager from Hokkaido Universityy ここへAIRwayのアクセス統計y リゾルバ別 国別 コンテンツ例など2008/12/1512SPARC DR Meeting 2008Link to a content in Science DirectLink to OA content in IRThe outline of AIRway systemAIRwayhosted by Hokkaido Univ.I ayosted by okkaido iv.Citation Informationdoi ,issn, startpage, endpage, titile UK JapanLink Resolverex.  SFXWeb of ScienceScopusetc.Appropriate Copy1. EJ contents2. IR contents3. ***********OpenURLOAI-PMHsearchOpenURLReturn in XML format2008/12/1513SPARC DR Meeting 2008ACCESSIRs replace ILLy A Japan-specific situation, maybey ILL requests for photocopies of articles published in major international journals have decreased sharply in the past 7-8 years in Japan, as a result of “big deals” with major journal publishers{ 660,000(2000)              410,000(2007)y On the other hand, those for domestic journals published in Japanese have increased!{ 270,000(2000)               520,000(2006)y ILL of non-returnables is labor-intensive and unrewarding, so this increase is unhealthyy Findings:{ Requests are mainly for articles in self-published journals, bulletins, reports etc from universities, research institutes, departments and laboratories{ Precursory examples show institutional repositories helpy Why not make it pervasive?2008/12/1514SPARC DR Meeting 2008An instructive example2008/12/15SPARC DR Meeting 200815Drop due to increasing contents in CURATOR, Chiba University Repository of the Outcome from ResearchThe numbers of requests for articles in a journaledited and published by School of  Nursing Science, Chiba University, filled by its Health Sciences LibraryStandardized statistics of downloads from repositoriesy Core of usage-centered approachy Rigor in stats warrants the credibility IR, hence need for standardizationy Method for distillation of access logs: complying with“COUNTER Code of Practice;{ HTTP status code; only 200 and 304 is extracted,{ Duplicate access within 10 seconds for HTML and 30 seconds for PDF,{ File extension; e.g.  only files having “.pdf ”,  “.htm” and  “.html”,{ Bots-access; cutting-off access from known and unknown robots, crawler etc., { Internal use for development and maintenance, additional item toCOUNTER Codey IR managers can obtain accurate and appropriate access logs to analyze the usage of IR scholarly contents with this standardized method across any IR platform.2008/12/1516SPARC DR Meeting 2008うつろlimitation by File extensionRaw log dataextraction by HTTP status codecutting-off Bots-accessとhandling Duplicate access“REAL”ACCESSES exclusion of Internal useSectioned filesCOUNTER-2COUNTER 2COUNTER 3Effects of  Filtering: samples from Hokkaido and Kyoto of  DRF community            IR & Access PeriodHUSCAP（2008.5-7）KURENAI（2007.3-2008.8）Original Access Log 3,800,814 16,216,116Selection by HTTP status codes 3,711,417 15,592,769Elimination of crawling by robotsGoogle, Yahoo!, MSN 2,771,190 10,149,059Other robots 2,463,002 7,939,328Selection only by PDF Format 134,973 582,061Elimination of Duplicated Accesses 123,801 486,042Accesses identifiable by Domain Name (Reliable Log)81,458 326,6232008/12/1518SPARC DR Meeting 2008Access analysis by Top Domain KURENAI・・・Indenesia,India, GermanyMalasi,  AustraliaHUSCAP  ・・・India, Germany,UK, Italia,BrazilAccess analysis by referrerHUSCAP KURENAINo referrer 28,005 22.6% 105,453 21.7%Inside IR system 33,930 27.4% 111,985 23.0%Search Engines 60,726 49.1% 265,784 54.7%(Google) 54,629 44.1% 235,599 48.5%Other referrers 1,140 0.9% 2,820 0.6%合計 123,801 486,042Our future plansy DRF is more than the four project I presented, so stay tuned fortheir resultsy DRF Project Cluster & Community Activities will continue in cooperation with NII & Learned Societies in Japany Analyze the usage of institutional repositories within DRF community in order to evaluate and prove the benefits of IR fromthe viewpoint of  the contents usage by the end-users  on the Internety International Collaboration with IR communities like DRIVER II for the development of OAy 2nd DRF International Conference in Tokyo (DRFIC2009)2008/12/1521SPARC DR Meeting 20082008/12/15SPARC DR Meeting 200822yThank you for your attention!y Hideki Uchijima{ Kanazawa University Library{ DRF Cordinating Board{ Mail : uchijima@ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp{ Phone : +81-76-264-5203y DRF    http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/

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