The Library Network promotes open access to both research results and rare materials through “Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI)” and “Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive” respectively.
Open access is not limited to making academic papers, which are the results of research, freely available to everyone, but also refers to a broad concept that includes the publication of research data and the digitization of rare materials.
This website provides information on support for open access, such as making papers, works, and bulletins by researchers at Kyoto University open access, and sharing research data as evidence of such research achievements, and digitizing rare materials held by Kyoto University.
Making research results open access will be a great force to promote collaboration between researchers and open the way to the creation of new knowledge that transcends research fields.
Any researcher at Kyoto University can disseminate not only journal articles but also all kinds of research and educational results such as books, conference presentation materials, and teaching materials to the world.
There are basically two options to make your articles open access.
To assure open access to published products of Kyoto University faculty research to further research and public accountability.
Kyoto University is responsible for guaranteeing permanent storage and access.
We asked the researchers who shared the paper about its appeal.
You can get discounts on the Article Processing Charge (APC).
There are predatory journals that are published solely to profit from the Article Processing Charge (APC) collected from authors and are not properly peer-reviewed.
Kyoto University formulated “Kyoto University Policy on Research Data Management and Sharing” on March 19, 2020. This policy serves as a general guideline in managing, preserving, and sharing research data at Kyoto University.
When sharing research data, you should select an appropriate data repository.
If you belong to Kyoto University, you can share your research data via the Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI).
We provide information on the status of research data, the obligations of researchers, and the types of support offered by Kyoto University.
In addition to the Library Network's efforts to manage and share research data, we will highlight some of the trends in Japan.
We retain and increase the value of research data.
Bulletins can be shared as open access electronic journals on KURENAI. You will be able to search the articles of the bulletins on CiNii Articles, Google Scholar, etc., and the visibility of articles will be improved. You can also assign DOIs (international standard identifiers that allow permanent access and interoperability of articles, etc.).
KURENAI can convert your first bulletins and your bulletins being published (including back numbers) into digital journals.
We asked the researcher in charge of publishing about the merits of sharing a bulletins from KURENAI.
Efforts have begun to increase the discoverability of citation data and abstract data.
By restoring and digitizing our rare materials and making the data available on the Internet, we aim to ensure the long-term preservation of the original materials for future generations and the availability to anyone of the digital data.
Several steps are required, such as checking the physical state of rare materials, restoring them if necessary, taking digital shots and making digital images, until they have become open access.
This is an open access platform for the digital images of rare materials held by Kyoto University.
Here are some examples of research projects having utilized digital images of Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.
We support researchers who have digitized Kyoto University’s rare materials and want to make the data open access.
As many rare materials in the library need restoring and digitizing, your kind support would be highly appreciated.
Received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2020!
Promotion of open access is stipulated as one of the “Kyoto University Priority Strategic Action Plans (2016-2021)”, and the Library Network is in charge of this.
