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1日本STM研究人员对电子期刊等电子资源的使用与认知。本研究对日本1427名物理学家、1026名化学家和1276名病理学家进行问卷调查，回应率分别为54.3%、48.1%和42.4%。主要结果如下：(1)约55-65%的受访者曾每天或每周使用电子期刊。(2)超过90%的人还使用过纸质期刊。(3)除了物理学家使用arxiv外，他们很少使用其他电子资源(约30%的研究人员使用过)。(4)约40%的受访者认识到五年后学术交流的现状不会有显著改变。然而，超过一半的人认为电子资源以这样或那样的形式占主导地位2将电子印刷档案放在学术交流中我们通过日本物理学家的使用和观点探索了电子印刷档案在学术交流中的地位。与使用电子期刊相比，电子印刷档案(Arxiv)的使用率从1999年到2003年没有变化。3传统学术期刊从纸质版向电子版的转变2002年，60-80%的主要传统物理学、心理学、概论期刊(从151份期刊目录中挑选出来)提供了全文的电子版。与1997年和1998年的研究相比，这些研究中从印刷到电子的转变可能已基本完成。4科学信息“开放获取”的趋势大约在2003年。“开放获取”运动引起了许多研究人员、图书馆员等的兴趣。我们认识到开放获取运动是学术交流变革的焦点。然后我们启动了网站“开放获取日本”，目的是确保有关开放获取的信息。

1 Use and recognition for electronic journals and other electronic resources by Japanese researchers in STM.We sent a questionnaire to selected Japanese researchers which consisted of 1427 physicists, 1026 chemists and 1276 pathologists(response rates are respectively 54.3%, 48.1% and 42.4%) The main results are follows : (1)About 55-65% of respondents have used electronic journals everyday or weekly. (2)More than 90% of them have also used print journals. (3)They have seldom used other electronic resources except the use of arXiv by physicists(about 30% of researchers have used). (4)About 40% of them recognized the present situation of scholarly communication would not be significantly changed after five years. However, more than half believed predominance of electronic resources in some form or other.2 Placing the e-print archive in scholarly communicationWe have explored the place of e-print archive in scholarly communication through the use and view by Japanese physicists. In comparison with the use of electronic journals, the ratio of use for e-print archive(arXiv) was not changed from 1999 to 2003. We concluded that the e-print archive works as resource in informal communication rather than substitute for the traditional scholarly journal.3 The shift from print to electronic version of traditional scholarly journalsIn 2002, 60-80% of main traditional journals in physics, psychology, general (selected from 151 journal lists) provide electronic version of full articles. In comparison with 1997 and 1998 studies, the shift from print to electronic of them may have almost completed.4 Trends towards "Open Access" of scientific informationIn around 2003. "Open Access" movements came to interest many researchers, librarians, and so on. We recognize Open access movements as focus points for transformation of scholarly communication. Then we started the Web site "Open Access Japan" with the aim to sure information on open access.