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| Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) J-STAGE | |
|---|---|
| Name | J-STAGE |
| Type | Online journal platform |
| Established | 1999 |
| Owner | Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese, English |
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) J-STAGE J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency that provides digital dissemination for scholarly journals and conference proceedings across Japan, linking institutions such as the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, Kyoto University, Tohoku University and industry partners like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Sony. It serves publishers including the Japan Medical Association, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Chemical Society of Japan, Physical Society of Japan and national organizations such as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The platform interacts with international services like CrossRef, DOAJ, PubMed Central and Google Scholar while aligning with initiatives by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
J-STAGE aggregates peer-reviewed items from Japanese scholarly bodies including the Japan Academy, Science Council of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and technological societies such as the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Information Processing Society of Japan and Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan. The platform presents metadata compatible with standards promoted by IEEE, W3C, NISO and OpenAIRE, and it supports identifiers from ORCID, CrossRef and DataCite. J-STAGE hosts content produced by publishers like Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis in collaboration with Japanese academies and links to repositories such as the National Diet Library and CiNii.
J-STAGE was launched by the Japan Science and Technology Agency in 1999 following developments in digital publishing influenced by initiatives from the National Institutes of Health and projects such as Project Gutenberg and the arXiv preprint server. Early collaborations involved the Japan Union Catalog of Serials and the National Institute of Informatics, with subsequent integration of standards from CrossRef and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Expansion phases saw partnerships with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and linkages to international repositories like HAL (open archive), aligning policy with statements from the Berlin Declaration on Open Access and dialogues involving the European Commission.
J-STAGE provides online peer-reviewed publishing workflows, XML conversion services leveraging JATS, full-text search, DOI registration via CrossRef, and linkage to author identifiers like ORCID. It offers features comparable to services from PubMed Central, Scopus, Web of Science, and integration with indexing by Google Scholar and cataloging by the National Diet Library. Support tools include manuscript submission systems used by societies such as the Japanese Society of Radiological Technology and metrics compatible with altmetric providers like Altmetric and citation services such as Crossref Event Data.
The platform's corpus spans medicine contributed by the Japan Medical Association Journal, engineering from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers Journal, chemistry from the Chemical Society of Japan Journal, physics from the Physical Society of Japan Journal, and interdisciplinary reports from institutions like the National Institute of Informatics and the Research Organization of Information and Systems. Coverage includes conference proceedings for events hosted by IEEE Japan Section, the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia community, symposia organized by the Japan Geoscience Union and technical reports from Toyota Motor Corporation and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
J-STAGE uses web technologies advised by the W3C and metadata schemes from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and NISO, delivering content in HTML, PDF and XML (JATS) formats compatible with indexing by CrossRef and harvesting by the Open Archives Initiative. The platform supports multilingual interfaces for Japanese and English, provides machine-readable metadata for services like DataCite, and implements persistent identifiers such as DOI and ORCID for interoperability with systems used by Elsevier, Clarivate Analytics and PubMed Central.
Operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, J-STAGE's governance draws on advisory input from stakeholders including the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, national universities like Hokkaido University and corporate partners including Hitachi and Fujitsu. Funding sources have included allocations from the Japanese government, project grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and cooperative agreements with academic societies and commercial publishers such as Springer Nature.
J-STAGE has been cited in evaluations by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and referenced in policy papers from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency, praised for increasing visibility of Japanese research from institutions like Keio University, Waseda University and Nagoya University. It is used by international indexing services such as Scopus and Web of Science and has informed open access debates alongside platforms like arXiv and PubMed Central, while receiving scrutiny from stakeholders including the Japanese Trade Union Confederation and academics involved with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access.