From Webcat to CiNii Books

From Webcat to CiNii Books
Recent updates on information
services in NII
Ikki Ohmukai and Mai Sekido
National Institute of Informatics
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
CiNii Books
•  Search engine for NACSIS-CAT records
CAT holding records
•  1200+ libraries
•  11M bibliographies
•  110M holdings
12000
10000
累積図書所蔵登録数
Holding
Libraries
1400
110,340,000 1,248
1200
Member
参加機関数
8000
Libraries
1000
800
6000
600
4000
2000
S60
S61
S62
S63
H元
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
H7
H8
H9
H10
H11
H12
H13
H14
H15
H16
H17
H18
H19
H20
H21
H22
0
400
200
0
Restructuring of services
Before 2009.3
2009.4 - 2011.10
Webcat
CiNii
Webcat
CiNii
NACSISCAT
ELS
CLS
NACSISCAT
ELS
CLS
After 2011.11
CiNii
CiNii
Books
Articles
NACSISCAT
ELS
CLS
•  Modularization, Downsizing
•  “Cloud ready” for disaster recovery
•  Re-designing user interface
•  “CiNii UI” for general and novice users
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
Inside CiNii Books – Search
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Search by basic bibliographic information (Title, Author, IDs)
Search by Subject, Classification, Notes, Media format
Filter by Library ID, Organization ID and Area
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You can search for particular libraries!
N-gram-based search (don’t mind word separation)
Details and Holdings
•  Enhanced holding list
•  Filter by area, Global ILL availability
•  Direct link to OPACs
•  Link to external services
•  CiNii Articles, NDL, Worldcat…
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
Romaji to Kana
Check!
Press
“Search”
Translate to Kana
and Search
Recent updates – from April to June 2012
①
① CiNii authentication
Ø  Institution name is displayed
on upper right.
Ø  Your library is displayed on
the top of holding list
Ø  Link to link resolvers (by
OpenURL) set by your
institution
② Cover image
②
①
Ø  Taken from Google Books
③  Direct export to
bibliographic
management tools
Ø  RefWorks,
Ø  EndNote
Ø  Mendeley
④  Social media
Ø  Twitter
Ø  Facebook
①
③
④
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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
d) for Arabic, Thai,
Devanagari
Ø  Cyrillic etc.
③
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Latest updates – September 2012
•  Remember Lib ID, Org ID and Area
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Setting will be saved on
your Web browser
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Settings will be applied on
the list of holdings
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You can find the Library ID
(FAID) at
http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/
tool/libsearch.html
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
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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Registration from overseas - via agents
Vendor
Overseas
institution
Registration
/
NII
contract
Complete registration
Application form
Usage
authorization
Send Application
Notification
Usage start
・ Letter of acknowledgment
・Administrator ID
Payment of fixed
charges
・ Letter of
acknowledgment
・Administrator ID
Invoice
Payment in
local currency
Invoice
Contact information of agent： -KINOKUNIYA Company Ltd.
International Business Division E-mail: ibd@kinokuniya.co.jp
For details, see:
-Japan Publications Trading
Co., Ltd.
Book Export II Dept. E-mail: mono@jptco.co.jp
-Okura Info Service
Co., Ltd. E-mail: okura-info
@e-okura.co.jp
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/en/articles/service_outline_org.html
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
Conclusion
•  CiNii is an evolving platform
•  We really welcome your feedback!