JST Chinese Bibliographic Database January, 2007 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Office of Science and Technology Information

JST Chinese Bibliographic Database 1. Objectives The Chinese Bibliographic Database (DB) aims to introduce the current status of China’s scientific and technical (S&T) researches to Japanese people, by collecting S&T literature generally available in China and constructing the DB with Japanese abstract. The DB will be released free to Japanese researchers and many others who need the information. 2. Features ・ Provided as one of the files of JDream Ⅱ ・ Free of Charge ・ Searchable by Japanese keywords and JST Thesaurus, title, author, author affiliation, Chinese place-names, etc. ・ Display Japanese Bibliographic Information (title, journal name), Japanese abstract, etc ・ Display Chinese Bibliographic information (title, author, author affiliation, journal name) 3. File Data ･ No. of journals indexed: About 740 ･ No. of records annually added: About 100,000 １

JST Chinese Bibliographic Database Resources to be Covered 1. S&T and Medical Journals ・ About 740 journals (shown in “List of Chinese Journals( ).xls”) - Journals selected by premier Chinese information agencies - Journals supported by NSFC - Journals covered by ISI 2. Humanities and Social Sciences Journals ・ Subject coverage and journals to be determined later 3. Non-periodicals published by: - the Chinese government - research institutes - universities - academic societies - and others ２

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JST Chinese Bibliographic Database Creating the DB 1. Metadata necessary to create the DB 1) Bibliographic information ・ Title, volume and issue numbers of journals ・ Title or heading of article ・ Author’s name ・ Author affiliation ・ Page numbers 2) Author abstract 2. Japanese Abstracts To be made by translating author abstracts written in either English or Chinese ５