The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has been conducting an annual survey of academic information infrastructure since 2005 in order to clarify the current state of university libraries and computer network environments of national, public and private universities, and to use them as basic materials for their improvement and enhancement.This time, we announced the results of the survey in 2019.
The subjects of the survey are a total of 792 national, public and private universities (national 86 / public 93 / private 613).According to the survey, the cost of materials for university libraries in 2018 is 708 billion yen. It has been on a downward trend following FY2017, and decreased by 2017 million yen (5%) compared to FY0.7.In addition, library operating expenses (including personnel expenses) were 747 billion yen, which also decreased by 2017 billion yen (19%), continuing from FY2.4.
Of the library material costs in 2018, the cost related to paper materials (total of books and magazines) was 273 billion yen. It decreased by 2017 billion yen (15%) from FY5.4.In addition, expenses related to electronic media materials (total of electronic journals and e-books) were 330 billion yen, an increase of 2017 billion yen (17%) from FY5.6.
The number of universities with institutional repositories (systems that publish educational and research results free of charge on the Internet) was 2018 universities (603%) in 76.1, an increase of 2017 universities (18%) from 3.1 universities (543%) have set up an active learning space (a learning space where multiple students gather and use various information resources to promote discussions).68.6% of national universities, 97.7% of public universities, and 49.5% of private universities.As for the breakdown of learning / research support provided in the active learning space, library use / literature search support accounts for 67.4%, followed by IT support and field-specific learning consultation.
情報セキュリティポリシー※策定済みの大学は622大学（78.5%）で、国立大学では全大学で策定されているが、公立大学では7大学（7.5%）、私立大学では163大学（26.6%）が未策定だった。課題として「セキュリティに係る経費の確保」を挙げている大学は年々増加しており、2019年度では601 大学（75.9%）で、2015度より8.6ポイント上昇している。
707 universities (89.3%) have cloud-based information systems (all or part of them are centralized and shared in on-campus information centers or off-campus facilities and operated efficiently).Of the introduced universities, 583 universities (82.5%) cited "improvement of convenience and services" and 575 universities (81.3%) cited "reduction of management and operation costs" as the effects of cloud computing. ..On the other hand, among 85 universities (10.7%) that do not operate the cloud, 47 universities (55.3%) are "uncertain about security and reliability" and 45 universities (52.9%) are "cost issues". Is mentioned.
* Information security policies generally stipulate "basic policies for information security measures," "systems for ensuring information security," "measure standards and implementation procedures," etc.Universities that manage education and research information are required to respond appropriately to cyber attacks.
