No. 178, June 2011

Third basic plan for the development of science and technology information formulated

In March 2011, the NDL formulated the "Third basic plan for the development of science and technology information," setting issues for the NDL to work on from FY2011 to FY 2015. This plan is based on the "Proposal for the basic policy on development of science and technology information," which was approved in the 52th meeting of the Council on Organization of Materials on Science and Technology and submitted to the Librarian of the NDL in January 2011.

The basic plan aims to enhance NDL's function in acquiring, preserving, and providing academic information in science and technology and also the humanities by actively building "knowledge infrastructure," and also to contribute to developing national academic information in further cooperation with other institutions. Specifically, the following eight points were set up for the NDL to deal with:

• (1) Promoting the development of the "knowledge infrastructure"
• (2) Digitizing academic publications in Japan and collecting digital information resources
• (3) Improving the environment for digitization
• (4) Preserving and managing digital information resources
• (5) Encouraging utilization of digital information resources
• (6) Collaboration between traditional collections/services and digital information resources
• (7) Analyzing and exploiting usage information
• (8) Enhancing its social function as a central organization of the " knowledge infrastructure"

The full text of the basic plan is available on the NDL website. (Japanese only)

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¹The Council on Organization of Materials on Science and Technology is an advisory body to the Librarian of the NDL, and consists of academic experts in science and technology and other field.