Japan Information Center of Science and

CAS/STlS[Interna.tiona.1. CAS/STN offers stmcture searchable files such as Registry, Beilstein, MARPAT, CASREACT, and Gmelin a variety of learning files, eg, LRegistry, LBeHstein, LMARPAT, and LCASREACT and software products such as STN Express for on-line stmcture and substmcture searching. Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society, has pubHshed Chemical Abstracts since 1907 and joindy operates STN International with EIZ Kadsmhe and the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology. 

JICST-E is a bibliographic database with English citations and abstracts covering the literature published in Japan on all fields of science, technology, and medicine. It is produced by the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology and covers 1985 to date. 

JICST-Eplus—Japanese Science Technology. Tokyo Japan Information Center of Science and Technology. This database... 

CAS cooperates with Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik, Mathematik (FIZ-Karlsruhe) in Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, and the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST) in Tokyo, Japan, to form STN International, the scientific and technical information network. The CAS-developed Messenger software is used to support STN International and is running on... 

In other parts of the world, reference journals were also founded In 1927, the first issue of the journal Nippon Kagaku Soran was published in Japanese. This journal has abstracted the Imown chemical literature in Japan since 1877. The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST), which was founded 1957, took over the reference journal in 1958 for financial reasons and continued publishing it with the new title Domestic Chemistry Series of JICST Current Awareness. The rest of the world did not take very much notice of Japanese publications, now and then an article was cited in Chemisches Zen-tralblatt or Chemical Abstracts although this Japanese reference journal was essential for Japanese chemists. The number of publications, which were cited in Chemical Abstracts increased steadily (34 abstracts in 1907 109,800 in 1991), the systematic access to the Japanese chemical literature was organized after the Second World War Since 1977, the Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI), a department of JICST, has cooperated with Chemical Abstracts Service and since 1980, all CA abstracts of Japanese publications have been written by JAICI. 

The most important host in chemical information is STN - Scientific Technical Network International. The nature of this host is most specific, as three institutionalized computer centers are backing it, the Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio, the Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe, and the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST), Tokyo. These three are permanently interrelated by use of satellite lines (Fig. 78). The... 

STN International Scientific Technical Network, computer system which is jointly offered by three database producers the American Chemical Society, -y FIZ Karlsruhe and the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST). The three service centers at CAS in Columbus (USA), in Karlsruhe (Germany) and in Tokyo are linked via satellite and submarine cable. STN currently offers about 160 databases in a variety of scientific and technical subject areas. 

JICST/JOIS. The Japan Information Center for Science and Technology (fICST) Mass Spectral Database is accessible to users in Japan through the JICST Eactual Database System (fOlS-E). The database uses the NIST/EPA/ MSCD data collection supplemented by spectra from the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (84). 

Technology Corporation, Information Center for Science and Technology (JICST). The STN Centers in Karlsruhe, Columbus, and Tokyo have many years of experience in the field of scientific information. With these three scientific organizations in Europe, Japan, and the USA, STN provides an international service for the scientific community and has, since it began in 1986, become the leading information network for science and technology. 

Parts of this work were supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Research on Priority Areas Genome Information Science, and Control of Molecules in Intense Laser Fields of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan, Sumitomo Foundation of Science, Inoue Foundation of Science, Hyogo Science Foundation and 21st century COE (Center of Excellence) of Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems (Kobe University), MEXT. 

Akihiro Ametani earned his PhD from the University of Manchester (UMIST), Manchester, UK, in 1973. He was with the UMIST from 1971 to 1974, and with Bonneville Power Administration for summers from 1976 to 1981, and developed the EMTP (Electro-Magnetic Transients Program). Since 1985, he has been a professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. In 1988, he was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. From April 1996 to March 1998, he was the director of the Science and Engineering Institute, Doshisha University, and dean of the Library and Computer/Information Center from April 1998 to March 2001. He was chairperson of the Doshisha Council until March 2014. 

Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Prof. Hiromi Naked and Dr. Takeshi Yoshikawa (Waseda University) for their valuable comments. Some of the present calculations were performed using the computer facilities at Research Center for Computational Science, Okazaki, and at Research Institute for Information Technology, Kyushu University, Japan. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 25810011. 

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