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Inquires about New Year holiday (December 27, 2010)

  • Last day: Dec. 28 (Tue) close at 5:00 PM (JST)
  • Holiday: Dec. 29 (Wed) to Jan. 3 (Mon) 2011
  • Starting: Jan. 4 (Tue) at 9:00 AM (JST)
We appreciate for your understanding.

Prizewinners of the 2nd contest of CiNii Web API. (Dec 06, 2010)

There were 33 entries for the 2nd contest of CiNii Web API.
Five works were chosen for the grand prizes, and 10 works were given the honorable mentions.
Please check these great works.

Prizewinners of the 2nd contest of CiNii Web API. (Japanese)

4 million of CiNii articles became searchable at Yahoo! JAPAN's Article Search. (Nov 10, 2010)

4 million of CiNii articles from NII-ELS (Academic Society Journals and Research Bulletins of Universities) became searchable at "Article Search" <http://ronbun.search.yahoo.co.jp/> Yahoo! JAPAN has newly started.
"Article Search" of Yahoo! JAPAN searches 4 million articles of CiNii.
You can see basic information such as titles, authors and abstracts at search result page of Yahoo!.
Article information links to Article Details Page of CiNii.

For details, please see the News page of National Institute of Informatics (Japanese).

RDF format specification has been changed. (Nov 2, 2010)

RDF of Article Details Page specification has been changed from October 18th.
Delimiter between author's family name and given name has been changed from comma (,) to space ( ).

Example
BeforeAfter
John, SmithJohn Smith

Papers associated with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry are available on CiNii (Oct 26, 2010)

Two papers written by Dr. SUZUKI Akira who is a Emeritus Professor of Hokkaido University have been available on CiNii.
These papers are registered to HUSCAP, the Institutional Repository of Hokkaido University with permission from the publisher. Anyone can see these fulltexts for free.

Paper for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling Review paper for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling

You can see more papers and related information at the special page on HUSCAP. (Japanese)
鈴木章名誉教授ノーベル化学賞受賞関連論文をHUSCAPから読むことができます! : HUSCAP

Papers in Institutional Repositories in Japan can search on CiNii.
The button IR Fulltext(Free) on the Article Details Page and IR on the Article Search Results link to Institutional Repositories. You can see the fulltexts at the page linked.

Word for Conditions (provision conditions) of CiNii Journal with full text Directory has changed. (Oct 20, 2010)

With the Conditions preview of CiNii fulltext on Oct. 18, the word for conditions (provision conditions) on CiNii Journal with full text Directory and list of journals incorporated in NII-ELS(Academic Society Journals / Research Bulletins) and available on CiNii has changed.

BeforeAfter
Open AccessOpen Access
Fixed-price OKSubscription
Fee-basedPaid
Not availableLimited

Conditions preview of CiNii fulltext is now available. (Oct 18, 2010)

Now you can check the condition of CiNii Fulltext (for free or not) on Search Results and Article Details pages.

MessageConditions
Open AccessFree of charge for everyone.
SubscriptionMembers under institutional contract can see it for free.
Other users can purchase the fulltext.
Clicking the button take subscribed users to the fulltext. Other users will proceed to the log in/pay-per-view selection screen.
If there is a "Subscription" button on upper right of your screen, you can use as subscripted user.
PaidYou can purchase the fulltext.
Clicking the button take you to selection window. You can pay by pay-per-view or login with your ID.
If you had login, charge confirmation window will be displayed.
LimitedNot available for a certain period after issue by the Academic Society's policy.

Note:
The preview of condition might have lag behind actual condition of the fulltext.
Because the conditions is updated each day, but the previews' updates is weekly.

Users can use as members under institutional contract by the following way.

  1. Access from IP addresses which registered as the addresses of contracted institution.
  2. Login with Site License Individual IDs. (Please sign up the ID from the institution in advance.)
  3. Login with institutions' IDs (Shibboleth login with GakuNin or UK-fed.)*
    * Setup by institutions is required.
For details about user categories see "About User Categories"of Help.

About service stop of CiNii from 0:00 to 22:00 [JST] on Sunday, Sep. 12, 2010 (Aug 30, 2010)

CiNii will be stopped due to power outage at the following time: From 0:00 to 22:00 [JST] on Sunday, Sep. 12, 2009.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

System maintenance at August 28, 2010 (Aug 25, 2010)

CiNii will be unstable between 10:00 A.M.-12:30 A.M. (JST) at August 28, 2010 for system maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

New Title (July 26, 2010)

Full text documents for "沿岸海洋研究" (The Oceanographic Society of Japan (OSJ)) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".

CiNii Open Workshop on Ustream (June 2, 2010)

CiNii Open Workshop on June 4 (Fri.), 15:30 - 17:00 (JST), will be broadcasted on Ustream.


Please check the following.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/videoplanning
Hashtag: #ciniiapi
For details, please check the news in Japanese.

CiNii Open Workshop on Ustream (June 2, 2010)

CiNii Open Workshop on June 4 (Fri.), 15:30 - 17:00 (JST), will be broadcasted on Ustream.


Please check the following.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/videoplanning
Hashtag: #ciniiapi
For details, please check the news in Japanese.

CiNii Open Workshop on June 4, 2010 (May 19, 2010)

CiNii Open Workshop "Anytime CiNii, Anywhere CiNii - The 2nd Web API developer contest -"
Date and time: June 4 (Fri.), 15:30 - 17:00 (JST)
Venue: Special Conference Room at the 1st floor of National Center for Sciences
How to apply: Please register from the page of NII 2010 Open House.

CiNii entered its sixth year in April. Although the number of accesses to CiNii is steadily increasing thanks to many cooperators, we will keep working persistently to make CiNii ubiquitous. We have exciting and stimulating plans, such as talk sessions and an announcement of the start of the second API developer contest. Seats are limited, so apply now through our Web site!

We will broadcast this workshop on Ustream.

Notification of Changes to Conditions of Provision of Content (April 1, 2010)

The conditions of provision of content for the following journals will be change from April 1, 2009.

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

[Change to Open Access]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

Information Science and Technology Association (INFOSTA)

UDC information All Open Access      
The journal of Information Science and Technology Association All Open Access
     
[Eliminate embargo]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

Japan Industrial Management Association

Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association All Open Access      
Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association All Open Access      

Japanese Society of Stomatognathic Function

The Journal of Japanese Society of Stomatognathic Function All Open Access
 
 
 
 
[Open Access is added]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

Species diversity For up to 3 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 0 262 735
After 3 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
タクサ : 日本動物分類学会誌 For up to 3 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 0 262 735
After 3 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
動物分類学会会報 For up to 3 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 0 262 735
After 3 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
動物分類學會會務報告 For up to 3 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 0 262 735
After 3 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
動物分類学会誌 For up to 3 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 0 262 735
After 3 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
【Not available is added】
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Japanese Association for Crystal Growth (JACG)

Journal of the Japanese Association of Crystal Growth For up to 1 year(s) after issue Not available
(new)
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access

Japanische Gesellschaft fur Germanistik (JGG)

Neue Beitraege zur Germanistik For up to 2 year(s) after issue Not available
(new)
After 2 year(s) or more Fixed-price OK
[Open Access is added , Eliminate embargo]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Japan Society of Cookery Science

Journal of cookery science of Japan For up to 1 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 577 577 1050
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access
Science of Cookery For up to 1 year(s) after issue Fixed-price OK 577 577 1050
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access
[Change to Open Access]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Japan Association of Collage English Teachers (JACET)

JACET bulletin For up to 1 year(s) after issue Not available      
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access
JACET journal For up to 1 year(s) after issue Not available      
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access
JACET bulletin For up to 1 year(s) after issue Not available
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access
[Change to Fixed-price OK]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

Information Science and Technology Association (INFOSTA)

The journal of Information Science and Technology Association For up to 1 month(s) after issue Not available
For up to 6 month(s) after 1 month(s) Fixed-price OK 0 577 1050
After 6 month(s) or more Open Access
[Charges per article (JPY) is Change]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Physical Society of Japan (JPS)

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan For up to 1 month(s) after issue Not available
After 1 month(s) or more Paid 2100 2100 2572
 
 
[Change Range of provision]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

Publication Office, Progress of Theoretical Physics

Progress of heoretical physics Vol.1,No.1(1946)-
Vol.118,No.16(2007)
Paid 1102 1102 1575
Vol.119,No.1(2008) or more Fixed-price OK

Soryushiron Kenkyu

Soryushiron Kenkyu For up to 2 year(s) after issue Paid 0 367 840
After 2 year(s) or more Open Access

Bussei Kenkyu

Bussei Kenkyu For up to 2 year(s) after issue Paid 0 367 840
After 2 year(s) or more Open Access

CiNii Author Search (beta ver.) was launched (Apr. 1, 2010)

CiNii Author Search (beta ver.) was launched. Please cooperate for quality increase of search result. For more information, log on to Help page.

Fulltext PDF will be unable to be displayed from 20:00 to 21:00 [JST] on Sunday, Mar. 14

Fulltext PDF will be unable to be displayed from 20:00 to 21:00 [JST] on Sunday, Mar. 14 for system maintenance. Searching and displaying detail pages will be able to be done normally. But references and citing works will be unable to be displayed.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

About service stop of CiNii from 13:00 [JST] on Wednesday, Mar. 31 to 3:00 [JST] on Thursday, Apr. 1

CiNii will be stopped due to system maintenance from 13:00 [JST] on Wednesday, Mar. 31 to 3:00 [JST] on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

CiNii will be stopped for 5 minutes from 19:00 to 19:45 [JST] on Monday, Mar. 22.

CiNii will be stopped for 5 minutes due to network maintenance from 19:00 to 19:45 [JST] on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

CiNii will be sometimes stopped for about few seconds from 16:00 to 17:00 [JST] on Monday, Mar. 1

CiNii will be sometimes stopped for about few seconds from 16:00 to 17:00 [JST] on Monday, Mar. 1 due to network maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

About service stop of J-STAGE, Jouranl@rchive (Feb 1, 2010)

J-STAGE, Journal@rchive in cooperation with CiNii will not be available during the hours below due to legal inspection of electric facilities.

Feb. 20(Sat),15:30 to Feb. 22(Mon),2:00(JST)

For additional information, please visit J-STAGE website.

Renewal of Institutional Fixed-Price Service for 2010 (February 1, 2010)

Please take the procedures for the next fiscal year 2010 (April 2010 - March 2011)
Please renew the contract by March 31, 2010, 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]
Monday, February 1 - Wednesday, March 31, 2010
*The renewal period is limited only during the above dates.
 
[Price (April 2010 - march 2011)]
The price have not changed from those in FY 2009 (CiNii Terms of Use (PDF))
 
[Provision conditions of contents]
※Above page is based on current provision condition. If there are any changes for next year, we will inform about it in early March on this page
 
[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 2009 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. Renewal of Site License Individual ID
*For all the Site License Individual ID Users.

[Time period]
Thursday, April 1 - Monday, May 31, 2010.
* 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 2010 renewal status list of Institutions with Fixed-Price Contracts.
 
[Payment method for Site License Individual ID]
We consolidated the payment methods to credit card payment only for Site License Individual ID.
Thank you for your understanding.

[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

Fulltext PDF will be unable to be displayed from 8:00 to 9:30 [JST] on Tuesday, Feb. 2

Fulltext PDF will be unable to be displayed from 8:00 to 9:30 [JST] on Tuesday, Feb. 2 for system maintenance. Searching and displaying detail pages will be able to be done normally. But references and citing works will be unable to be displayed.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

CiNii will be stopped for about 10 minutes from 3:00 AM to 5:00 AM [JST] on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010.

CiNii will be temporarily stopped for about 10 minutes due to network maintenance at the following time: From 3:00 AM to 5:00 AM [JST] on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

CiNii will be stopped for about 10 minutes from 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM [JST] on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010.

CiNii will be temporarily stopped for about 10 minutes due to network maintenance at the following time: From 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM [JST] on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.