Japan Link Center (JaLC)

Abstract

Japan Link Center (JaLC) is the only DOI registration agency authorized by the Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) Foundation in Japan. It provides a system for assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to various digital content, including scholarly papers, books, research data, and e-learning materials. In addition, JaLC is working to assign identifiers to research data and equipment. JaLC assigns DOIs to a wide range of scholarly materials, including: Journal articles, Books and monographs, Research datasets, Conference proceedings.

JaLC actively promotes the adoption of DOIs within Japan's academic and research institutions, but does not mandate their adoption (which typically comes from funding agencies, institutions, or publishers). It works with universities, research institutions, and publishers to integrate DOIs into their workflows. It encourages the use of ORCID iDs for researchers to uniquely identify and attribute individual contributions.

Overview

Country	Japan
Start date	2012
Annual Budget	n/a
Responsible organisation(s)	Academic cooperation
Target group(s)	Researchers, academic institutions, and the broader scientific community
Policy instrument type	DOI Registration Agency (infrastructure for managing scholarly resources)

Background

JaLC is jointly administered by several major academic institutions in Japan, including the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), the National Institute of Informatics (NII), and the National Diet Library (NDL)

Objective(s)

Set policies in registering DOIs for research data

Establish operation flows to register DOIs for research data with JaLC system.

Test Data DOI registrations

Public access URL

https://japanlinkcenter.org/top/english.html

All tags

• Incentives & Rewards
• Japan
• 2012
• Academic cooperation
• Civil society
• Established researchers
• Higher education institutes
• National government
• Public research institutes
• Teachers
• Students
• Standards and certification for technology development and adoption
• Unique digital identifiers for citation and credit

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