From Webcat to CiNii Books @ EAJRS2012 (2012.09.20)
1. From Webcat to CiNii Books
Recent updates on information
services in NII
Ikki Ohmukai and Mai Sekido
National Institute of Informatics
2. Important announcement
• NACSIS Webcat will be closed on March 8, 2013
• Thank you for long-time support!
• It’s time to move on…
• Introducing CiNii Books
• Webcat Plus will be continued
4. Restructuring of services
Before 2009.3 2009.4 - 2011.10 After 2011.11
Webcat CiNii Webcat CiNii CiNii CiNii
Books Articles
NACSIS- ELS NACSIS- ELS NACSIS- ELS
CAT CLS CAT CLS CAT CLS
• Modularization, Downsizing
• “Cloud ready” for disaster recovery
• Re-designing user interface
• “CiNii UI” for general and novice users
5. Key concepts
• Power of data
• Rich metadata brings rich search
• Name authority
• Deepen collaboration with libraries
• Direct link to library systems
• Useful functions for ILL
6. Inside CiNii Books – Search
• Search by basic bibliographic information (Title, Author, IDs)
• Search by Subject, Classification, Notes, Media format
• Filter by Library ID, Organization ID and Area
• You can search for particular libraries!
• N-gram-based search (don’t mind word separation)
7. Details and Holdings
• Enhanced holding list
• Filter by area, Global ILL availability
• Direct link to OPACs
• Link to external services
• CiNii Articles, NDL, Worldcat…
8. Metadata and Web API
• OpenSearch
• Provides search result in XML format
• RDF representation of records
• Bibliography, Name authority, Library info
• Developer can create mash-up services
9. Romaji to Kana
Check!
Press Translate to Kana
“Search” and Search
10. Recent updates – from April to June 2012
① CiNii authentication ①
Ø Institution name is displayed
on upper right.
Ø Your library is displayed on ②
the top of holding list
Ø Link to link resolvers (by
OpenURL) set by your
institution
①
② Cover image
Ø Taken from Google Books
③ Direct export to
bibliographic
management tools
Ø RefWorks,
①
Ø EndNote
Ø Mendeley
③
④ Social media
Ø Twitter
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Ø Facebook ④
11. Recent updates – August 2012
① Sort by title
Ø available A-Z and Z-A
at the search result
② Filter by countries ①
Ø Selectable Country or
region outside Japan ②
③ Transcription for
special characters
and languages
Ø Pinyin for Chinese
Ø Alphabetical
transcription (romanise ③
d) for Arabic, Thai,
Devanagari
Ø Cyrillic etc.
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12. Latest updates – September 2012
• Remember Lib ID, Org ID and Area
• Setting will be saved on
your Web browser
• Settings will be applied on
the list of holdings
• You can find the Library ID
(FAID) at
http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/
tool/libsearch.html
13. DEMO
• Search for Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/search?
advanced=true&fano=FA02157X
• Search for UK
• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/search?
advanced=true&area=54
14. CiNii Articles
• 15 million metadata with 4 million full text PDF
• 50% of full texts are Open Access
• 90% of full text are available with institutional
subscription
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15. Registration from overseas - via agents
Overseas Vendor NII
contract
institution
Registration / Complete registration
Application form
Usage
Send Application authorization
Usage start Notification
・ Letter of
・ Letter of acknowledgment acknowledgment
・Administrator ID ・Administrator ID
Payment of fixed Invoice
charges Invoice
Payment in
local currency
Contact information of agent：
-KINOKUNIYA Company Ltd. -Japan Publications Trading -Okura Info Service
International Business Division Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd.
E-mail: ibd@kinokuniya.co.jp Book Export II Dept. E-mail: okura-info
E-mail: mono@jptco.co.jp @e-okura.co.jp
For details, see: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/en/articles/service_outline_org.html
16. Roadmap of CiNii
• Data integration between Articles and Books
• Bridging two different culture
• More links to full texts
• Open access resources
• Any other digitized materials
