SPARC Japan (The Committee for the Promotion of the Scholarly Communication) Annual Report FY2017

Table of Contents Foreword [p.1] 1 Overview [p.3] 1.1 Overview of Phase 5 Activities [p.3] 1.1.1 Basic policy for phase 5 [p.3] 1.1.2 Project plans for phase 5 [p.3] 1.2 Trends in Fiscal 2017 [p.4] 1.2.1 SPARC Japan Seminar [p.4] 1.2.2 Surveys of overseas trends [p.6] 1.2.3 Support for arXiv.org [p.7] 1.2.4 Support for SCOAP3 [p.8] 1.2.5 Support for CLOCKSS [p.9] 1.2.6 Responses to international collaboration agreement on information services in the high energy physics field [p.9] 1.2.7 Publication of Fiscal 2016 SPARC Japan Annual Report [p.9] 1.2.8 Study on OA Publishing and APC Spend in Japan[p.10] 2 Record of Meeting [p.11] 2.1 SPARC Japan Governing Board [p.11] 2.2 Planning Working Group for SPARC Japan Seminar [p.11] 3 List of Members [p.11] 3.1 SPARC Japan Governing Board [p.11] 3.2 Planning Working Group for SPARC Japan Seminar 2017 [p.12] 4 History [p.13] 5 Publication [p.26] 5.1 SPARC Japan Annual Report [p.26] 5.2 SPARC Japan NewsLetter [p.26] 5.3 Reference for SPARC Japan Seminar 2017 [p.26] 6 NewsLetter [p.28]