Contribution to the improvement of dissemination of grey literature; JAEA Library's efforts for collecting, organizing and disseminating information on nuclear accidents

Ikeda, Kiyoshi; Oshima, Takeshi; Gonda, Mayuki ; Nagaya, Shun; Hayakawa, Misa  ; Mineo, Yukinobu; Yonezawa, Minoru  ; Itabashi, Keizo

In March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident occurred in Japan. After the accident, parts of information on the accident has been distributed as grey literature and they cause some issues in terms of permanent accessibility to the information. This paper introduces the activity of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency Library as an example of efforts to improve access of Internet information using the DSpace. Consequently, we contributed to the improvement of the dissemination of grey literature at the following three points; (1)to ensure permanent access to Internet information by cooperating with the National Diet Library's Web archiving project, (2) to develop standardized metadata schema and classification system, (3)to develop prototype system using DSpace and compile about 36,000 metadata.