While the number of universities with "institutional repositories" that publish research results free of charge to national, public and private university libraries increased by 2016 in 46, more than 3% of private universities have not formulated a security policy for computer networks. It was found in the academic information infrastructure fact-finding survey of the Ministry of Science.
The survey was conducted on the Internet at 778 national, public and private universities nationwide.The base date is the end of 2015 for libraries and May 2016 for computer networks.
According to the report, the cost of library materials in 2015 was 746 billion yen for all schools, 16 billion yen higher than the previous year.Of this amount, the amount related to electronic journals was 295 billion yen, an increase of 19 billion yen from the previous year due to the effects of exchange fluctuations and the consumption tax hike.
The number of universities with institutional repositories was 486, an increase of 46 from the previous year, reaching 58.2% of the total.Active learning spaces, which provide students with a place for independent learning, have been set up by 453 schools and have increased 5 times over the past five years.
All 86 national universities have formulated security policies, but 13 public universities (14.8%) and 197 private universities (32.6%) have not yet formulated them.
There are 26 supercomputers installed in 79 schools, and a total of XNUMX supercomputers are in operation.
627 schools are promoting the conversion of information systems to the cloud, and 76 schools are considering operation.More than 8% of the universities introduced as the effect of cloud computing cited "reduction of management and operation costs", and more than 7% cited "improvement of convenience and services".
