Field research on scientific databases and research trend

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National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) has been operating a network system with the internet connection, constructing and servicing scientific databases and constructing a union catalog database for university libraries, with the aim of promoting information environment for university researchers. From FY1997, NACSIS is to begin a new service, "Electronic Library, " for academic society journals, and is conducting the technological development together with the institutional design suitable for a new scheme of scientific information dissemination in the coming advanced informatized society.As internationalization of scientific research is evolving, the development and enhancement of these systems and databases should be planed in correspondence with the demand for overseas information by Japanese researchers and the requirement for overseas transmisson of their own information. This would require NACSIS the continuous studies on the situation of scientific information … More related organizations of overseas countries. NACSIS should also correspond to the demand for Japanese information by foreign researchers. With the above aspects, this project was planed and conducted to survey and analyze the current overseas situation. The study items include full text database systems, i.e.search engines, standard format for full text databases, e.g.SGML,electronic library systems, multimedia database systems, demand for Japanese information in overseas countries, trend of scientific databases and environment for scientific research.The participating researchers visited relevant overseas organizations such as universities, academic societies, publishers and governmental agencies, discussed with the staffs on the above and gathered materials, or attended international conferences and exchanged opinion, including G7 GII meetings where Japan was a leader for the promotion of electronic libraries. Some of the developments derived from the study are a collaborative project for supporting Japanese language in an English based full text search engine, projects of utilizing NACSIS system at universities in France, Swiss and Sweden, and a joint project of electronic library systems with a UK university. Less