@misc{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004597, author = {Itoh, Yoshito and 伊藤, 義人}, month = {Aug}, note = {The establishment of the electronic journal task force of the Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) was dealt with in the paper. There were a lot of issues to be solved when subscribing to electronic journals in the national universities in Japan. The activities of the task force to build the consortia with large publishers were discussed in detail. The task force has now maintained the consortia having more than 12,000 full-text electronic journals with about US$ 100 million in total. Most of the national universities have joined the consortia. The issues remained were also discussed in the paper. In order to maintain the consortia and build new ones the sustainability of the electronic task force of JANUL should be considered. Furthermore, the new method of the scholarly information distribution should be also established in near future., IADLC 2005 : The International Advanced Digital Library Conference in Nagoya, Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, Japan, August 25-26, 2005, Session 5}, title = {Present situation and issues of the consortia of electronic journals in Japan [slide]}, year = {2005} }