News - News of 2011

 

New Title (Dec 26, 2011)

Full text documents for "ボランティア学研究" (The International Society of Volunteer Studies in Japan) "design research" (Design Research Association) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".

 

About the inquiries desk during New Year holiday (December 27, 2011)

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

 

New Title (Nov 28, 2011)

Full text documents for "体育・スポーツ・レクリエーション" (Japanese Association of University Physical Education and Sports) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".

 

CiNii Books and Full Text Search are now available (Nov 9, 2011)

We are pleased to announce that CiNii was renewed.
Following two new functions are now available.

  1. "CiNii Books" was launched

    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.

    For details about CiNii Books, please check the page below.
    Help of CiNii Books (Japanese)  
  2. Full Text Search (beta ver.) was launched

    The full text search function (beta ver.) to search within the full text document provided by CiNii Articles is now available.
    For details about Full Text Search, please check the page below.
    Help of full text search (Japanese)

English version of help pages about new functions are in the make and will be up soon.

 

About service stop of CiNii from 15:00 on Nov. 5 to 9:00 on Nov. 7, 2011 [JST] (Oct 19, 2011)

CiNii will be stopped due to power outage for checking electronic equipment at the following time: from 15:00 on Nov. 5 (Sat.) to 9:00 on Nov. 7 (Mon.), 2011 [JST].
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

 

About service stop of NDL-OPAC (From Oct. 8 to 10) (Oct 7, 2011)

NDL-OPAC in cooperation with CiNii will not be available during the hours below due to legal inspection of electric facilities.

Oct. 8 (Sat), 18:30 to Oct. 10 (Mon), 12:30 (JST)

For additional information, please visit NDL-OPAC website.

 

Links from CiNii to The Japan Society of Applied Physics and Nikkei BP are now available (Trial) (Aug 8, 2011)

Links from CiNii to Electronic Journals (Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Express) of The Japan Society of Applied Physics and Nikkei BP Magazine Archive Campus Edition had been added.
If you see the button such as JSAP link banner or Nikkei BP link banner on the search result window or Article details window of CiNii, they lead you to fulltext of Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Express and Nikkei BP Magazine Archive Campus Edition

Please note following points.

 

New Title (Jun 20, 2011)

Full text documents for "Language laboratory" (Language Education and Technology) are now available. Please view the journal's page at "CiNii Journal with full text Directory".

 

About the system failure on May 28 (May 30, 2011)

The following functions of CiNii had been unavailable because of system failure for about 5 hours from around 18 to around 22 on May 28 (Sat.) (JST).

  • Viewing CiNii PDF full text
  • Sign up for CiNii User ID
We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by this failure.

 

Two new functions are available. (May 23, 2011)

Following two new functions are available now.

  1. Author page redirect function.

    We have been made inconvenience that the original Author Details Page (ex. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/nrid/1000080143551 ) was deleted when the author was identified to another, so you couldn't access.
    To resolve this access error, we set this redirect function. (Article details page has already this redirect function.)
    As CiNii has feedback system, when you find failure information you can feedback immediately on our website.
    We have been given so many feedbacks mainly about author identification, so we really appreciate your corporation.

  2. Adds and changes of data items.

    1. Change of NDL Japanese Periodicals Index ID.
      CiNii incorporated data from Japanese Periodicals Index of National Diet Library. We had been displayed "Japanese Periodicals Index ID" (9 or 10 digits) for those data's ID on the Article Details Page. But we have changed it to "Article ID" ("NDL Article ID" in CiNii, 7 or 8 digits) that is more permanent.

      Please refer to the page below for more details about IDs of NDL.
      National Diet Library : NDL-OPAC User Guide (Japanese)

    2. We add more items for output content of the RDF of article details information.(For API Users)
      Here are the additional items.
      • NAID (Article ID number of CiNii)
      • NCID (NACSIS-CAT bibliography ID of the journal)
      • Article Language code
      • Original database code
      • Full Text Condition
      • Original database code
      • Links to other resources
      • URL of article's thumbnail
      Please refer to the page "API(2) of CiNii - About RDF of Article Details Page"or more details.

 

For Site License Individual ID users who have difficulty with renewal due to the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Apr 15, 2011)

Since all Site License Individual IDs have expired on March 31, users who wants to use it in new fiscal year should renewal from a computer within the institution after April 1.

But now some users have difficulty going to their institution or connecting the institution's network due to the Great East Japan Earthquake.
These users can renewal by sending email to us as follows.

[Coverage]
  • Users who had used Site License Individual ID in last fiscal year. and
  • Users who have difficulty on renewal from institution's network due to the Great East Japan Earthquake.

[Application]
  • Please send an email to user-request@nii.ac.jp from the mail address registered to CiNii.
  • Please set the subject of the email as [Apply for the renewal of Site License Individual ID]
  • In the body of the email, please write your ID (ex. "SPxxxxxxxxxx"), name and the institution affiliate.

[Deadline]
  • May 25, 2011

[For inquiries]

* It takes up to 8 business days from application to renewal.

 

Now you can check your User ID by yourself. (Apr 13, 2011)

If you forgot your Use ID (Individual ID and License Individual, you have been needed to inquire by email.
But now you can refer it on the web.The email would be sent you.
Please proceed from the link "Forgot your CiNii User ID?" on the login window.

 

1.2 millions of records from NDL Japanese Periodicals Index is now available. (Apr 11, 2011)

1.2 millions of records from NDL Japanese Periodicals Index's "Science and Technology" and "Natural Science" published from 1950 to 1974 which has been not incorporated, is now available in CiNii. Japanese Periodicals Index is one of the databases incorporated. It's made by National Diet Library. The code at the CiNii window is "NDL".
This will enable you to search the same range as NDL-OPAC (by National Diet Library) via CiNii.

You can see the list of databases incorporated in CiNii at the following page.
Databases Incorporated

 

Our Services from April. (Apr. 5, 2011)

We apologize for the inconveniences caused by the NII services which have been restricted since March 14 due to the rolling blackouts by TEPCO after the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake.
However, we expect to supply stable and nearly normal services from April.
For the time being, NII services will be steadily available without being affected by the rolling blackouts.

We would appreciate your continued use of NII services.

We will do our best to ensure the consistent and stable operation of our services.
Please be aware that we will announce any changes to our service provision due to various reasons on the page follows or other media such as Twitter.

"Information on availability of NII Content Services"

 

Notification of Changes to Conditions of Provision of Content (April 1, 2011)

The conditions of provision of content for the following journals will be change from April 1, 2011.

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

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

The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers

テレビジョン学会雑誌 For up to 6 month(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 6 month(s) or more
Open Access
Subscription

0

1102

1575
The Journal of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan (テレビジョン) For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 2 year(s) or more
Open Access
Subscription

0

1102

1575
The Journal of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan (テレビジョン学会誌) For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 2 year(s) or more
Open Access
Subscription

0

1102

1575

International Association of Project and Program Management

Journal of International Association of Project & Program Management All
Open Access
Paid

0

1102

1575
国際P2M学会記念論文集 All
Open Access
Paid

0

1102

1575
研究発表大会予稿集 All
Open Access
Paid

0

1102

1575

日本植物分類学会

APG : Acta phytotaxonomica et geobotanica For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 2 year(s) or more
Open Access      
Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 2 year(s) or more
Open Access      
bunrui For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 2 year(s) or more
Open Access      
 
[Change to partly Open Access]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers

The journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers For up to 3 month(s) after issue
For up to 6 month(s) after issue
Limited      
For up to 2 year(s) after 3 month(s)
For up to 6 month(s) or more
Subscription 0 1102 1575
For up to 2 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)

Japan Society of Library and Information Science

Annals of the Society of Library Science For up to 3 year(s) after issue Paid 0
367
840
For up to 5 year(s) after issue 3 year(s) Subscription
After 3 year(s) or more
After 5 year(s) or more
Open Access      
Journal of Japan Society of Library and Information Science For up to 3 year(s) after issue Paid 0
367
840
For up to 5 year(s) after issue 3 year(s) Subscription
After 3 year(s) or more
After 5 year(s) or more
Open Access      

日本物理教育学会

 

日本物理教育学会誌 For up to 1 year(s) after issue Limited      
For up to 2 year(s) after issue
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription 0 367 840
After 2 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
物理教育 For up to 1 year(s) after issue Limited      
For up to 2 year(s) after issue
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription 0 367 840
After 2 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
物理教育学会年会物理教育研究大会予稿集 For up to 2 year(s) after issue
All
Subscription 0 262 735
After 2 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
物理教育研究大会発表予稿集集 For up to 2 year(s) after issue
All
Subscription 0 262 735
After 2 year(s) or more Open Access
(new)
 
[Change to Fully Subscription]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

Japanese Society for Adapted Physical Education and Exercise

Japanese journal of adapted sport science All Subscription
Paid
367 367 840
 
[Change to Partly Subscription]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Society for Biotechnology, Japan

醸造學雜誌 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
All
Paid 0 273 745
After 3 month(s) or more Subscription 0 273 745
醗酵工學雑誌 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
All
Paid 0 273 745
After 3 month(s) or more Subscription 0 273 745
hakkokogaku kaishi For up to 3 month(s) after issue
All
Paid 0 273 745
After 3 month(s) or more Subscription 0 273 745
Seibutsu-kogaku Kaishi For up to 3 month(s) after issue
All
Paid 0 273 745
After 3 month(s) or more Subscription 0 273 745
日本醗酵工学会大会講演要旨集 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
All
Paid 0 262
83
735
556
After 3 month(s) or more Subscription 0 262
83
735
556
日本生物工学会大会講演要旨集 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
All
Paid 0 262
83
735
556
After 3 month(s) or more Subscription 0 262
83
735
556

Reliability Engineering Association of Japan (REAJ)

The journal of Reliability Engineering Association of Japan For up to 6 month(s) after issue
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
Limited
     
After 6 month(s) or more
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription
Open Access
0 1102 1575
[Eliminate embargo]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers

ITEJ Technical Report For up to 3 month(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 3 month(s) or more

Subscription


577

577

1050
National Convention Record of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan For up to 3 month(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 3 month(s) or more

Subscription


577

577

1050
テレビジョン学会年次大会講演予稿集 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 3 month(s) or more

Subscription


577

577

1050
テレビジョン学会映像メディア部門
冬季大会講演予稿集
For up to 3 month(s) after issue
Limited
     
All
After 3 month(s) or more
Subscription


577

577

1050

The Operations Research Society of Japan

 

Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan For up to 3 month(s) after issue
Limited      
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
After 3 month(s) or more
1 year(s) after issue
Paid 0 1102 1575
After 1 year(s) or more Open Access      
Transactions of the Operations Research Society of Japan For up to 1 year(s) after issue
For up to 3 month(s) after issue
Paid
Limited
0 1102 1575
After 1 year(s) or more
After 3 month(s) or more
Open Access 0
577
0
577
0
1050
[Embargo is shorten]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

The Japan Institute of Energy

石炭科学会議発表論文集

For up to 3 month(s) after issue
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
Limited      
After 3 month(s) or more
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription 94 157 630
日本エネルギー学会大会講演要旨集 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
Limited      
After 3 month(s) or more
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription 94 157 630
Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy For up to 3 month(s) after issue
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
Limited      
After 3 month(s) or more
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription 262 682 1155
燃料協會誌 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
Limited      
After 3 month(s) or more
After 1 year(s) or more
Open Access      
バイオマス科学会議発表論文集 For up to 3 month(s) after issue
For up to 1 year(s) after issue
Limited      
After 3 month(s) or more
After 1 year(s) or more
Subscription 94 157 630
 
 
[Embargo is added]
Organization Journal Title Range Provision conditions Charges per article (JPY)
Members of the organization Non-members PPV

THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY OF HOKKAIDO

北海道農業経済研究 For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
(new)
After 2 year(s) or more
All
Open Access
フロンティア農業経済研究 For up to 2 year(s) after issue
Limited
(new)
After 2 year(s) or more
All
Open Access
 
[Other changes of price and provision conditions]
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 Theoretical Physics

For up to 2 year(s) after issue
For up to 2 year(s) and 3 month(s) after issue
Subscription 367 367 840
After 2 year(s) or more
After 2 year(s)3 month(s) or more
Paid 1102 1102 1575
119(1) -120(6) Paid 367 367 840

Japan Academic Association of Socio-education and Service Leraning

日本福祉教育・ボランティア学習学会研究紀要

All Subscription 0 420
437
892
936
福祉教育・ボランティア学習研究年報 All Subscription 0 420
437
892
936
 
 
 

Login with User ID could be unavailable. (Apr. 1, 2011)

Login with Use ID could be unavailable for a short time from the service restart on April 1.
You can not login if the domain in URL on your web browser is an IP address (numbers) .

 

Login with User ID became available. (Mar 29, 2011)

Login with User ID is available from March 29 to March 31.

You can login if the URL on your web browser is "ci.nii.ac.jp".

If there is IP address (numbers) in URL intead of ci.nii.ac.jp, old settings should be remaining in your PC.
Please try one of the following options.

  • A. Restarting your PC

  • B. Flushing DNS on your PC
    • Windows: Please enter following command at "command prompt"
      ipconfig /flushdns
    • Mac OSX: Please enter following command at "Terminal"
      dscacheutil -flushcache
 

Author search has been restarted. (Mar 28, 2011)

Author search, Author Links from Article Details pages and Author Search API which have been restarted because the maintenance has finished.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may caused you.

 

CiNii Renewal of Institutional Fixed-price Service for 2011. (Mar 25, 2011)

We had sent email on March 25 about the renewal to Institutional users who had not renewal yet.
The following is the information not included in the first email to Institutional users for renewal.

As you may already know, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had scheduled to conduct the rolling blackout from March 14 to help prevent an unexpected large scale power outage after the earthquake.
Due to this rolling black out, CiNii are available only for a short time each day.
This situation will continue for a while.

We would appreciate if you could find a time and do the renewal procedure while CiNii are available.

If you see a difficulty to renewal but wish to continue the contract, please let us know about it by E-mail with your intitution's information of next fiscal year by March 29, Tue (JST). We will modify the information and do renewal for you.

If you do NOT take the following renewal procedure by March 31, noon (JST), 2011, or we have no contact from you, your contract for fiscal year 2010 will be automatically terminated in April.

 

About the limited open of CiNii. (Mar 18, 2011)

CiNii is temporary available during limited hours in response to the rolling blackout.
We would announce the information about service providing hours at the following page.

"Information on availability of NII Content Services"

The functions below are now unavailable.

 

Author Search is stopped for a while because of maintenance. (Mar 9, 2011)

Author Search, Author links from Article Details pages and Author Search API are stopped for a while because of maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

 

CiNii will be stopped for about 10 minutes from 21:00 to 21:30 [JST] on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2011. (Mar 8, 2011)

CiNii will be temporarily stopped for about 10 minutes due to urgent network maintenance at the following time: From 21:00 to 21:30 [JST] on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2011.
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause you.

 

Renewal of Institutional Fixed-Price Service for 2011 (February 2, 2011)

Please take the procedures for the next fiscal year 2011 (April 2011 - March 2012)
Please renew the contract by March 31, 2011, 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]
Tuesday, February 1 - Thursday, March 31, 2011
*The renewal period is limited only during the above dates.
 
[Price (April 2011 - march 2012)]
The price have not changed from those in FY 2010 (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 2010 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]
Friday, April 1 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
* 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 seeFY 2011 renewal status list of Institutions with Fixed-Price Contracts.
3. Others
[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 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
 

About service stop of J-STAGE, Jouranl@rchive (Jan 27, 2011)

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

Feb. 26 (Sat), 15:30 to Feb. 28 (Mon), 2:00 (JST)

For additional information, please visit J-STAGE website.

 

About the system failure on January 9 (Jan 10, 2011)

CiNii had been unavailable because of network outage for about 4 hours from 23:32 on January 8 (Sat.) to 3:40 on January 9 (Sun.) (JST).
We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by such a long failure.
SINET (Network) outage information (Japanese)