About Us - JST Washington, D.C. Office

Information is essential to R&D and Innovation. As part of the national effort to promote Japan's R&D via STI (scientific and technical information), JST has produced numerous S&T-related databases and portals dedicated to science community and policy decision makers alike. These databases and portals offer S&T literature search and databases on failure cases, to mention a few. JST's Web-based extensive STI services are readily available.

STM literature databases with multidisciplinary coverage

50 million records from foreign and Japanese journals/proceedings/technical

papers

The most comprehensive coverage of journals and papers published in Japan

E-journal publishing platform for Japan' academic societies

Full texts of about 600 journals are available either for a fee or free of charge

About 90% of abstracts available in English

Over 700,000 archived articles as scientific heritage

Articles include papers authored by Japan's Nobel prizewinners

Archived back to 1877

Researcher profile databases with professional carrier records and achievements

Records and achievements on some 200,000 researchers in Japan are registered

for promotion of collaboration between academia-government-industry.

Job search service for researches seeking positions in domestic institutes

Job seekers can receive via E-mail the job opening information, which matches the

preferred conditions.

Web-based databases to encourage academia-government-industry collaboration

Information on technical seeds/undisclosed patent applications held by academia

to be searched

A new service to identify and connect different types of S&T information to each other

normally not available in a single search, thus encouraging development of new

ideas and insights

Based on the correlations among basic information, the linking service will offer

increased prospects for unexpected discovery and cross-disciplinary breakthroughs.