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J-STAGEElectronic Journal Publication &

Dissemination Center

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp

matsubar@jst.go.jp

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J-STAGE Purposes

• Help academic societies to produce and publish electronic journals

• Assist all publication-related operations from manuscript submission, peer-reviewing to page layouting

• Publishing and disseminating research works of international quality promptly and widely

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Budget

• Funded by the Science and Technology　Agency

• Operational budget of 2000 is about 770 million yen

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J-STAGE Features

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J-STAGE Features

• Author Assistance

• Electronic Manuscript Submission

• Electronic Peer-Reviewing

• Editorial Management

• Page Layouting Assistance

• Creating Citation Links

• Electronic Journal Dissemination

• Multimedia Supplementary Materials

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Author Assistance

• Develop templats for MS Word and LaTeX

• MS Word templates reflects final page style

• Allows to convert manuscript data into PDF and SGML

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Electronic Manuscript Submission

• Manuscripts submitted via Web

• Bibliographic data are also input via Web

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Electronic Peer-Reviewing

• Assign editors and reviewers using database

• Manuscripts are downloaded via Web

• Review results are submitted via Web

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Editorial Management

• Editorial offices can monitor the process status

• Inquiries and requests are e-mailed automatically

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Page Layouting Assistance

• FrameMaker+SGML is used for MS Word manuscirpts

• Manuscripts are automatically converted into the final page style

• PDF and SGML are generated automatically

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Creating Citation Links

• Links to major databases– JICST, PubMed, CAplus (STN)

• Links to major electronic journals– APS, AIP, HighWire

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Electronic Journal Dissemination

• Full text searching is available

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Multimedia Supplementary Materials

• Materials which are difficult/impossible to deliver in the printed media– Audio files

– Video files and animations

– High-resolution graphics

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J-STAGE System Overview

• Accessible 24 hours/365 days

• Free for academic societies

• Necessary hardware and software available

• Constructed around the Web technology

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J-STAGE System Overview

Citation LinkServer

E-Journal Server

MultimediaServer

Mail Server

DNS Server

Firewall

保守端末

InternalNetwork

Internet

Researchers

Editorial Office

Printing Firm

Other E-JournalSites

Terminals J-STAGEMonitoring

J-STAGE Center

Editors

Reviewers

Citation Linking

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Servers J-STAGEDevelopment

Terminals

Society (1)

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Technical Aspects

• SGML for internal data description

• Microsoft Word and LaTeX for templates

• Web interfaces

• PDF for full texts

• Adobe‘s FrameMaker+SGML for page layouting

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Various Users

• Authors

• Peer-Reviewers

• Editorials

• Editorial Offices

• Printing Firms

• Subscribers

• Web Surfers

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Acceptance

IssuePreparation

Production

Publication

Author EditorsEditorialOffice

ReviewersProduction

OfficePrintingFirms

Subscribers

Peer-Reviewing

ManuscriptPreparation/Submission

Receipt

(2)ElectronicSubmission

(3)Receipt

(4)Assign

Reviewer(s)

(1)ManuscriptPreparation

(5)ReviewRequest

(6)Reviewing

(7)Acceptance

(8)Issue

Preparation

(9)Final

Manuscript

(10)Production

(11)GalleyProof

(12)Printing(13)

OninePublication

(14)BrowseSearch

J-STAGECENTER

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J-STAGE Work Flow

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Systems

• High reliability

• High connectivity

• Security

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Current Status

• Started development in 1998. 10

• Publicly available since 1999. 10. 5

• 37 academic societies made an application to use J-STAGE , and 22 journals are now using J-STAGE

• 80 societies are expected by March, 2001

• 500 societies are expected in a few years

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Journal List• BIOPHYSICS

• Cell Structure and Function

• Japanese Heart Journal

• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

• Journal of Chemical Software

• Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry

• Journal of Nippon Medical School

• Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

• Journal of Physiologycal Anthropology

• Journal of Reproduction and Development

• and others

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J-STAGE Homepage

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J-STAGE Abstract

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J-STAGE Full Text (PDF)

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Practical Use

• Use from Journal Production Progress

• Use of a Wide Use Template of FrameMaker + SGML

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Plans

• More academic societies

• XML

• Functionality– More links(CrossRef, Chemport)

– Meeting abstracts

• Higher performance

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The Committee on XML for J-STAGE

• More efficient application of electronic data

• Difinition of DTD for XML

• Develop the tools and programs for XML

• MathML

• XSL

• Distributed processing system

• XML Schema

• XML Namespaces

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Contact

• Yukitaka Matsubara (matsubar@jst.go.jp)

• http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp