Comprehensive study of changes in scholarly communication and open access

1.电子期刊出版现状及研究者使用情况（1）通过调查现有印刷期刊向网络转移的情况，确定了20世纪90年代末和21世纪初电子期刊的发展趋势。(2)通过对日本科学、技术和医学领域研究人员的调查发现，电子期刊的使用量急剧增加，但反映出电子期刊的新特点，许多研究人员倾向于下载和打印PDF文件，而不认为这是使用.开放近用运动的动向（1）有关开放近用运动的现状信息，请访问日本开放近用网站。(2)通过对生物医学领域开放存取现状的调查，发现2005年发表的目标文章中有26%能够以开放存取的方式访问。我们将继续详细分析这些结果。(3)对机构知识库或开放获取期刊进行调查.研究者信息行为的变化及其对开放存取运动的态度对日本医学领域研究者期刊论文的访问和使用进行了调查。在最近阅读的文章中，超过70%的文章格式是电子文章。他们更喜欢从Google等通用搜索引擎PubMed获取最近阅读的文章。这一结果与美国、英国等其他国家的调查结果不同。

1. Current state of electronic journal publishing and researchers' use(1) Trends in electronic journals from the late 1990s and early 2000s was identified through investigating how existing print journals shift to Web.(2) As a result of survey on Japanese researchers in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine, dramatic increase of electronic journal use were found. Many of them, however, preferred to downloading and printing PDF files which did not been considered the use by the reflection of the new characteristics of electronic journals.2. Trend in Open Access movements(1) Information of current status of Open Access movements has been made available on website, Open Access Japan.(2) As result that current state of Open access in Biomedical fields were investigated, 26% of target articles published at 2005 were able to be accessed as OA. We continue to analyze these results in detail.(3) Surveys on Institutional Repository or Open Access Journals were conducted.3. Change of researchers' information behavior and their attitudes for Open Access movementsA investigation on access and use of journal articles of Japanese researchers in Medical fields were conducted. More than 70% of the format of articles read recently was electronic article. They preferred to PubMed from general search engine such as Google to obtain the article read recently. This result is different with that of investigations in another countries such as United States or United Kingdom.