The Japan Science and
Technology Agency (www.jst.go.jp) is a government
agency tasked with encouraging innovation in science and technology in Japan.
Recognizing the importance of
access to electronic journals one of their projects is J-STAGE (www.jstage.jst.go.jp) a searchable data
base of open access journals. Its
purpose is to support the computerizing of bulletins of academic societies,
journals and then make Japanese science and technology information easily accessible
to Japanese and non-Japanese.
Open access refers to electronic
journals, books, conference proceedings, etc. that can be accessed without any
requirement beyond registering. J-STAGE
requires registration.
As of December 16th
S-TAGE contained 1591 journals or 2,451,624 full text articles. The advanced search allows one to search by
keyword, article title, full text, journal or subject area. One can select if one wants the articles in Japanese
or English, conference proceedings or journals and most important select only
the peer reviewed journals. Most college
assignments require peer reviewed articles.
Earlier reviews suggest
S-TAGE was mostly medical journals but I found a high percentage of electronic
and materials science journals. I ran
three tests.
Searching “brain tumor” as
full text, peer reviewed journals only, I found 28 articles in three journals.
Searching “nano-technology”
got eight articles from two journals.
Searching “rice” limited to the
humanities and social sciences area got 31 articles but all in one journal.
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