NACSIS initiated an Internet-based document delivery service called NACSIS-ELS (NACSIS Electronic Library Service) in April 1997. As of August 1998, 55 Japanese academic societies are participating in this project, and nearly 170 academic journals are captured and made available on NACSIS-ELS. The history of the development of NACSIS-ELS is described after explaining general activities of NACSIS, Japan. Then a copyright charging strategy in this new service is discussed. Other issues related to online journals are also mentioned such as security protection measures, academic society activities over the Internet.

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Name:              Jun ADACHI
Date of birth:     November 12, 1952  
Present position:  Professor, Systems Research,
                   Research and Development Department  

Education: 
 
 1976  BE (Electrical Engineering), University of Tokyo, Japan
 1978  ME (Electronics), University of Tokyo, Japan
 1981  Doctor of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan

Research Area:   Information Systems

Research and professional experience: 
 
    1981--1983   Research associate at the Computer Centre, University of 
		 Tokyo, Japan
    1983--1986   Lecturer and associate professor at the Center for 
                 Bibliographic Information, University of Tokyo
    1986--1994   Associate professor at NACSIS 
    1987--1994   Associate professor at Graduate School of
                 Engineering, University of Tokyo
    1987--1990   Senior specialist for Scientific Research,
		 the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
    1994--       Professor at NACSIS 
    1994--       Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, 
                 University of Tokyo

Educational Activities:

    1987--       Adjunct professor at the Faculty of Engineering, 
                 University of Tokyo
    1987-- 1993  Adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering,
                 Yokohama National University
    1994--       Adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, 
                 Tokyo Metropolitan University

Affiliations: 
   Member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and
     Communication  Engineers of Japan (IEICE)
   Member of the Information Processing Society of Japan
   Member of IEEE
   Member of ACM


Selected Papers:
 
[1] Ohta, M., Takasu, A. and Adachi, J., Retrieval Methods for
English-Text with Missrecognized OCR Characters, Proceedings of the
4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR'97), pp. 950 -- 956 (Ulm, Germany), August 18--20, 1997.

[2] M. Negishi, J. Adachi, and H. Inoue, Update on NACSIS Activities
in the Age of Digital Information: Inauguration of NACSIS-ELS, an
electronic library service of scholarly journals, Proceedings of the
5th Internaltional Conference on Japanese Information in Science,
Technology and Commerce, pp. 75 -- 80 (Washington,D.C.), July 30 --
August 1, 1997.

[3] Adachi, Jun, Dissemination of Japanese Academic Journals over the
Internet, Proceedings of International Sysmposium on Research,
Development and Practice in Digital Libraries 1997, pp.32--35
(Tsukuba, Japan), November 19--21, 1997.

[4] Jun Adachi, ``NACSIS Electronic Library Project for Networked
Dissemination of Japanese Scientific Journals'', The Proceedings of
the International Conference on Digital Libraries and Information
Services for the 21st Century (KOLISS DL'96), pp.168--175,(Sep. 10-13,
1996).

[5] Itaru Nishizawa, Atsuhiro Takasu, and Jun Adachi, "A Query
Processing Method for Integrated Access to Multiple Databases", 7th
Conference on DEXA 96, pp.385--399, (Sep. 1996).

[6] Noriko SAKAI, Atsuhiro TAKASU, Jun ADACHI: ``Logical Structure
Transformation between SGML Documents,'' The Proceedings of IPIC'96
(Internation Working Conference on Information and Process Integration
in Enterprises), pp.201-215, November 14-15, 1996 Cambridge, MA, USA.

[7] Jun Adachi and Hiromichi Hashizume, ``NACSIS Electronic Library
System: Its Design and Implementation'', Proceedings of International
Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995, pp.36 -- 41 (August 1995).

[8] Noriko Sakai, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, ``Full-text Database 
of Scientific Documents with Various Structures,'' The 47th FID
Conference and Congress, Omiya Japan, October 1994 [A-82-05-11].

[9] Norio Katayama, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi, ``A Database with
an Explicit Semantic Representation, '' the 7th International
Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems, May 1994 at Austin, Texas, pp.323 --
332, 1994.

[10] Jun Adachi, ``NACSIS: Its activities and services,'' The NTIS
Conference on How to Acquire Japanese Scientific and Technical
Information, pp.81--85, 1992.

[11] Masamitsu Negishi and Jun Adachi, `` Overseas Acceptance of
Japanese Scientific Papers as seen in a Citation Analysis,'' The 3rd
International Conference on Japanese Information in Science,
Technology and Commerce, Nancy, France, May 1991.

 
Books:

- Chapter 4 of ``The Fundamentals of Systems Programming'' 
edited by H. Hagiwara and M. Ariyama, Ohmu-sha, 
(ISBN4-274-07185-5) 1984. 

- A chapter of ``Strengthening the U.S.-JAPAN Library Partnership in
the Global Information Flow'' edited by T. E. Welch et al., American
Library Association, (ISBN0-8389-3378-5), 1990.

- Chapter 11 of ``Information and Process Integration in Enterprises
--- Rethinking Documents'' edited by T. Wakayama et al., Kluwer
Academic Publishers, (ISBN 0-7923-8059-2), 1998.