Establishment of the Committee on Scholarly Information

July 1, 2004
JANUL
51st General Assembly

1. Objective

This Committee considers the trend of scholarly information media which are still more increasing and diversing in order to uninterrupted and stable collect, supply and preserve scholarly information.

2. Tasks

  (1) Examination of the trend of electronic journals and considering their problems

• Discussion with publisher
• Examination of the adoption and use of electronic journals in the member libraries
• Dissemination and publicity of electronic journals

  (2) Response to diversing scholarly information

• Construction of institutional repository model, and dissemination and promotion of this model
• Examination and investigation about practical use of electronic book
• Examination and investigation about practical use of IC tag
• Cooperation and coordination with relevant organizations

3.Organization

  (1) The Committee comprises the following members:

Hideo Naito	Associate University Librarian, Tohoku University Library
Uematsu Sadao	University Librarian, Tsukuba University Library
Syun Tutiya	Professor, Chiba University
Masayuki Kawase	Director of Information Management Division, University of Tokyo Library
Akira Tanahashi	Director of Information Library Division, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Masashi Makimura	Director of Information Service Division, Kanazawa University Library
Yoshihito Ito	University Librarian, Nagoya University Library
Koji Hosodo	Director of Information Management Division
Shigetake Kai	Director of Information System Division, Kyushu University Library

  (2)The Committee has the following Subcommittees for implementing specific projects.

• Electronic Journal Task Force
• Digital Contents Project
• IC Tag Project
  
  Its organizations and tasks are defined separately.

4. Period

The Committees shall be standing.