Introduction to "naistar" (NAIST Academic Repository)

　The naistar name comes from its role as the NAIST Academic Repository. 　The NAIST Digital Library has operated "naistar" as our institutional repository to maximize exposure of NAIST’s faculty and researchers achievements globally since February 2009.

 Institutional repositories aim to collect research materials produced at their institution and to contribute to development of academic research by storing and saving the materials on a permanent basis, while providing them for public viewing via Internet free of charge.
 As of March 2024, more than 5,900 repositories in the world and more than 800 in Japan provide their research and teaching output to audiences globally.

• Repositories in Japan : http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/list/
• Repositories in the world : https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/view/repository_visualisations/1.html

 Online journals are limited to persons or institutions that have contracts with the publishers, repositories provide the materials for public viewing via Internet free of charge.

 All items in "naistar" are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved. The Copyrights remain with the authors or publishers.
 The repository users shall comply with the Copyright Act of Japan that stipulates the conditions including but not limited to, reproduction for personal purposes and citation indicating the source.
 In cases where the use of research materials extends beyond the conditions, the repository users required to obtain permission from the copyright holders.

For NAIST Faculty and Researchers...

 The NAIST Digital Library maintains and preserves your work in "naistar", so you can...

• Avoid broken links in citing your research with permanent URLs.
• Secure your data.
• Get top search results in Google
• Enjoy world wide visibility and accessibility
• Quickly distribute your research
• See your research cited more frequently

For NAIST...

Contribute to society by storing, saving and distributing materials on a permanent basis.

naistar leaflet

The following research materials are eligible for depositing.
  You can choose whether or not to register naistar from the NAIST Research Achievements Management System.
Click here for details. NAIST Research Achievements Management System -How to register naistar-

• Journal articles (Peer-reviewed scholarly articles, Pre-print, Conference papers)
• Theses
• Reports (Technical Reports, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Papers)
• Lecture videos
• Other learning materials
• Others (If you have suggestions, please contact us at )

  ※ Also please refer to the NAIST Repository Operational Guidelines [PDF].

How to deposit your work

  Though researchers should essentially control scholarly communication, each publisher has different policies concerning self-archiving. According to a self-archiving research project, most of publishers permit using the final draft post-referring version of their paper in institutional repositories. Start off by sending your article to the Library. After the Library confirms copyright policies, metadata, etc., the submitted article will be deposited to "naistar".

Self-archiving policies of publishers are available on the following sites.

• Open Archive policies of major journals
• SHELPA/RoMEO (Publishers's copyright & archiving Policies in overseas)
• SCPJ (Society Copyright policies in Japan)

Copyrights

• The copyright of research material shall remain with the copyright holder, not being transferred to the Library when it is deposited to the repository.

What is the final draft post-referring version?

• At each step of submission or revision of an article, there are different versions with author and publisher. The final draft post referring version is the final author's version which has been accepted by the publisher. This version will eventually formatted and released as "Publisher version" in online journals.
• As many publishers permit using the final draft post-referring version of papers in institutional repositories, please keep them for future archiving.

Cited from: Hokkaido University library