News - News of 2012

New functions: Recognition of your institution on CiNii Books, exporting to reference manager, etc. (April 13, 2012)

We are pleased to announce that the following functions are available from April 2.

1. Recognition of your institution on CiNii Books
   

   The following will be displayed on Book & Journal Details Page if you are authenticated as an institutional user (accessing under IP addresses registered or logging in with Site License Individual IDs or Shibboleth IDs)

   • When your institution (universities etc.) is holding the book or journal, your library will be displayed on the top of libraries list.
   • Links for each institution such like link resolvers or other links set by libraries which already displayed on CiNii Articles will be also displayed at the “Search this Book / Journal in” area. (links by OpenURL format only.)
     *For Institutional Administrators: Links on CiNii Books will be updated once a week at early morning of Monday.

   User information such like you are institutional user or ID user and Login buttons are also displayed on CiNii Books now.

2. Export to reference management software.

   You can directly export citations of articles and books/journals to RefWorks, EndNote (including EndNote Web) (*1), Mendeley (*2).
   *1: Plugin is needed to export to EndNote.
   *2: Now Mendeley is available only on CiNii Articles.

   Export is available from select list at left side on Search Result Pages and link at right side on Details Pages.

   Other export functions are also improved.
   RIS format is added to export format. All export format is now available on the screen (not downloading files).

3. Other modifications
   

   Other functions added or modified are as follows.

   • Displaying DOIs
     If the article has the DOI, that will be displayed at "Codes" area on right side.
     http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/130001006986/en/

   
   
   • "Report a problem" function was added at Articles Details Pages.
     Reporting problem is available also on Details Pages as well as Search Result Pages. If there is any error in articles information, please notify us from "Report a problem" link at the lower right side.
   
   
   • Links to other sites are open as new windows (tabs.)
     Links to full texts in other sites such like Institutional Repositories, J-STAGE, links set by each institutions and exporting functions are now opened as new windows (tabs.)

   
   
   • Error of the sort by year is modified
     Note: This modify has been reflected on April 9 (JST)
     When the publication date has only year and month, it had been not ordered with which has year month and day.
     The problem was modified as the following order, 2011-01 -> 2011-01-dd -> 2011-02.

• For Administrator of Institutional users.

  The following is updated for administrators if institutional users.

  • Links by NCIDs is now available on CiNii Articles.
    
    Links by NCIDs is added to the link to Online Catalogs functions as well as ISSN links. If you are using the Online Catalogs (OPAC) which can receive links by NCIDs, please set it.
    You can set both URL for NCID and ISSN. NCID is sent as a parameter primarily. If the record has no NCID, then ISSN will be sent. If only one of them is set, link icons will be displayed only records which have that data (NCID or ISSN).

• For API users.

  The following is updated for administrators if institutional users.

  • Links by NCIDs is now available on CiNii Articles.
    It became possible to return RDF by judging from HTTP header without specifying its URL on CiNii Articles as well as CiNii Books.
    In the articles page (example: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/130001006986/en/ ), author details page if a priority of "application/rdf+xml" is higher than others in the Accept field of a HTTP request header, it leads to URL of RDF.

Help in English for CiNii Books now available. (April 13, 2012)

Help in English for CiNii Books and update for CiNii Articles are available from April 13.
Thank you for waiting.

Please note that helps haven't been updated to new functions from February and April.

Notification of Changes to Conditions of Provision of Content (March 31, 2012)

The conditions of provision of content for the following journals will be change from April 1, 2012.

New Conditions of Provision List
For details about conditions of provision, see here.

New Title (Mar 12, 2012)

Full text documents for "Journal of Forest Planning" "森林計画学会誌" （Japan Society of Forest Planning) and " ブリーフサイコセラピー研究" （The Japanese Association of Brief Psychotherapy.) and "福祉のまちづくり研究" （Japanese Association for an Inclusive Society) and "ペドロジスト" （Japanese Society of Pedology) and "カリキュラム研究" （The Japanese Society for Curriculum Studies) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".

About several service stops of CiNii for about 15 minutes on Mar. 17, 2012 [JST] (Mar 6, 2012)

CiNii will be stopped several times for about 15 minutes due to network maintenance on Mar. 17 (Sat.), 2012 [JST].
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

Additional functions of CiNii Books such as exact title match search (February 28, 2012)

Upgraded features on February 16 include:

1. Exact title match search
   In Advanced search mode, the searching option exact title match is now available. If the "exact title match" checkbox is selected it will search for materials that match the whole title to search string exactly (not include sub title).
   It is possible to perform a prefix search by putting an asterisk (*) after the search terms.
   For API users: With OpenSearch, an exact title match can be specified by using the parameter "title_exact=true".
   
   
2. Additional search operators
   Now users can perform Boolean searches with additional logical operators same as CiNii Articles. AND searches can be performed by ampersand "&", OR by pipe "|" , NOT by placing a hyphen "-" before each term to negate.
   
   
3. Exporting from the book/journal details page
   It is now possible to export article information in Refer/BibIX, BibTeX, or TSV format from the book/journal details page as well as from the search results page.
   
   
4. Exporting in ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) format
   Exporting in ISBD format is also available from the book/journal details page.
   
   
5. URLs for Electronic book/journal
   URLs for Electronic books and journals have been added to the details section of the book/journal details page when the data contains a URL.
   
   
6. The display format for each library's holding information has been changed in cases where one record includes multiple volumes
   The display format when the library is holding multiple volumes has been changed. The order has changed from item-by-item to volume-by-volume. There are three items for one volume, "Volume (vol. 1, vol. 2, etc)", "Classification", and "Registration Number (each library's registration number, etc.)".
   
   Example:
   Before: v. 1, v. 2, v. 3, v. 4, v. 5, v. 6 801||1, 801||2, 801||3, 801||4, 801||5, 801||6 00111111, 00222222, 00333333, 00444444, 00555555, 00666666
   After: v. 1 801||1 00111111, v. 2 801||2 00222222, v. 3 801||3 00333333, v. 4 801||4 00444444, v. 5 801||5 00555555, v. 6 801||6 00666666
   
   If both the "Classification" and the "Registration No." fields are empty, the volume will not be displayed because it is considered as currently not being held.

System modifications to CiNii Books from its launch to now. (February 15, 2012)

Since the launch in November 9, 2011, the following modifications have been made to CiNii Books.
We continue to improve the service and appreciate your feedback.

New Title (Feb 13, 2012)

Full text documents for "母語・継承語・バイリンガル教育(MHB)研究" （Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education (MHB) Research Association) and " 森林利用研究会誌" （森林利用学会) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".

Renewal of Institutional Fixed-Price Service for 2012 (February 8, 2012)

Please take the procedures for the next fiscal year 2012 (April 2012 - March 2013)
Please renew the contract by March 31, 2012, or the service will be automatically terminated in April.
We look forward to having you as an institutional user in the next fiscal year.

1. Renewal of Institutional Fixed-price Service.
*Only for the Administrator of the institution who made contract CiNii Institutional Fixed-price Service.

[Time period]

Wednesday, February 1 - Saturday, March 31, 2012
*The renewal period is limited only during the above dates.

 

[Price (April 2012 - march 2013)]

The price have not changed from those in FY 2011 (CiNii Terms of Use (PDF))

 

[To confirm your current institutional data]

1. Login with your administrator ID and password at the Administrator login page.
2. Click "Change institution data".
3. Change institution data page (This year's registered data is shown).

 

[Renewal Procedure]

Renewal can be done through the website without any paper procedure.

1. Login with your administrator ID and password at the Administrator login page.
   *The administrator ID is not the same as a CiNii individual ID.
   *Your Administrator ID and password are stated in the notification that has been sent to the contract person when the contract started.
   * If there are any changes for the current data, it needs to be modified before the renewal procedure.
2. Click "Renewal application".
3. Read the "Usage Regulations" and click "I Agree".
4. Update your institutional data and click "Next". (Your data for 2011 will be saved separately.)
5. Confirm your renewal data and click "Next".
6. The contract renewal has been completed. Please save your application number displayed for any inquiries.

2. About the renewal of CiNii on November 2011
CiNii was renewed on November 2011(JST). The new and upgraded features are below:

1. CiNii Books  http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/
   
   CiNii Books is a service that enables searching of information on books and journals that are held in university libraries in Japan. It is possible to search for about 10 million titles held in 1200 university libraries (totaled over 100 million books), and about 1.5 million authors of these books that has been accumulated through the online cataloging system (NACSIS-CAT) which NII provides.
   The Existing article search service CiNii was renamed "CiNii Articles", and the part of design has been renewed.
   
   Features of CiNii Books
   • CiNii Books contains wide variety of books - recent books, classics, foreign books, CD, DVD,etc.
   • Users can check the list of libraries in Japan holding the books or journals they are searching for. It is possible to retrieve it by limiting specific areas and libraries.
   • Directly linking to the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) page of university libraries from book or journal page enables users to search for the details such as whether it is available now.
   • If the full text is provided by CiNii Articles, users can follow the link to the full text documents.
   • Offering Web APIs(Application Program Interface) are available from other systems and web services.
   
   Libraries connected to the online cataloging system (NACSIS-CAT) are able to set and display a link to their OPACs on CiNii Books by adding the data to information on connected library of NACSIS-CAT database, if their OPAC can receive NCID as a parameter.
   
   For details, please check the page below.
   *The following Information is Japanese only, English version of help pages about CiNii Books are in the make and will be up soon.
   http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/ja/books/service_faq_org.html#3.1
    
2. Full Text Search (beta ver.)
   
   The full text search function (beta ver.) to search within the full text document provided by CiNii Articles is now available.
   CiNii performs automatic character recognition of the full text documents of Academic Society Journals or Research Bulletins in the CiNii database so that users can search within the full text. Search results include records which do not contain search words in the title and keywords, so users will come across articles they have not found before.
   External links such as "CiNii Link" or "IR FullText" or "J-STAGE" are not included in the full text search.
   
   

3. Renewal of Site License Individual ID
*For all the Site License Individual ID Users.

[Time period]

Sunday, April 1 - Thursday, May 31, 2012.
* The renewal period is limited only during the above dates.

 

[Instruction]

A Site License Individual ID is renewable only from a computer within the institution after April 1.
We will inform about the renewal of Site License Individual ID for the users by E-mail later.
* To check whether or not your institution has renewed its contract, please see FY 2012 renewal status list of Institutions with Fixed-Price Contracts.

[Provision conditions of contents]

• Provision conditions for each publication
• Journals permitted under the institutional Fixed-price Service.

*Above page is based on current provision condition. If there are any changes for next year, we will inform about it in early April on this page

Inquiries:

[For inquiries about CiNii in general]

CiNii Desk
National Institute of Informatics
user-request@nii.ac.jp

 

[For inquiries about payment methods]

Account Team, Budget and Account Division
keiri@nii.ac.jp

Now you can see "External Link" at lists of journals and volumes (Jan 24, 2012)

From Jan. 23, "External Link"have been shown at lists of journals and volumes pages of CiNii Full Text Journal Directory if these journals which have been included to NII-ELS have links to Fulltext on external sites.
(They had been shown at only Table of Contents and Article Details pages.)

Example:
CiNii Articles - CiNii Full Text Journal Directory > National Institute of Informatics Academic Journals
CiNii Articles - SPARC Japan news letter

With CiNii Full Text Journal Directory, you can browse journals in NII-ELS (journals by Japanese academic societies and research bulletins by Japanese universities) from the list of journals/volumes/issues/table of contents by the name of the journal or the publishing organization.
For details, please see the following page.
CiNii - Browse Publications - User Guide

About several service stops of CiNii Books for about 10 minutes on Jan. 26, 2012 [JST] (Jan 24, 2012)

CiNii Books will be stopped several times due to network maintenance on Jan. 26 (Thu.), 2012 [JST].
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

About service stop of CiNii for about 10 minutes between 3:45 and 5:00 on Jan. 17, 2012 [JST] (Jan 11, 2012)

CiNii will be stopped due to network maintenance at the following time: for about 10 minutes between 3:45 AM and 5:00 AM on Jan. 17 (Tue.), 2012 [JST].
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

About the system failure of Full Text Search from January 8 to 10 (Jan 11, 2012)

Full Text Search of CiNii Articles had been unavailable because of system failure for about 37 hours from 20:44 on January 8 (Sun.) to 9:30 on January 10 (Tue.) [JST].
We apologize for the inconvenience caused by such a long failure.

New Title (Jan 4, 2012)

Full text documents for "Natural medicines" （The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".