RETRIEVAL OF JAPANESE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL-INFORMATION FROM THE JICST ONLINE INFORMATION-SYSTEM

The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST) maintains a database that provides access to Japanese publications in a broad array of scientific and technical fields. For a number of years the information contained in this database has been available on-line to users outside Japan in two ways. The first involves remote login to the JICST Online Information System (JOIS) in Japan using international communication networks. The second involves the STN service to access JICST-E, an English-language derivative of a portion of the original Japanese database. In this paper we describe our experience in accessing JOIS from the United States using hardware and software commonly available in the United States.