KAKEN is the database which is established and provided by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) with support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

It is a part of "GeNii, the National Institute of Informatics academic content portal", established by NII.

Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research contains the "Project Selected" documents and the research report summaries (incl. annual and final). The Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research is granted whole field of science, and this database provides the latest information of the research projects in Japan exhaustively.

Notice:

Not all projects have the complete set of "selected" and "annual / final report" documents because of the difference in the archiving coverage of each document type. The project information could be modified after selection has been done for some reason, such as declination.

The Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research has its own categories of research. Those categories have been modified in several years.
Here is the list of categories.

The Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research has "List of Categories, Areas, Disciplines and Research Fields". Those fields have been modified in several years.
Here is the tables of fields filed in the KAKEN database.

• FY1972
• FY1973-FY1975
• FY1976-FY1983
• FY1984-FY2002
• FY2003-

Notice

Research projects in some categories have no field distinction.
Here is the list of categories in which research projects have field information.

• Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)(B)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(B)(C)
• Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Scientists (A)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(B)(C)(S)
• Grant-in-Aid for Overseas Scientific Survey

And Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Scientists (B) has its unique field information.

There are two information sources.

1. Annual Report
   Most of annual reports are not archived at libraries in principle.
2. Final Report
   Final reports must be archived at the National Diet Library, and most institutions filed them of those researchers who were their principal investigators.
   There are missing reports in some categories.
   It means the existence of the final report that there is the "final research report summary" information in KAKEN.
   ■ Categories with final research reports. (On-going)
   
   • Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Grant-in-Aid for Special Purposes
   • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
   • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research
   【How to access】
   1. Kansai Annex of the National Diet Library
      Search system NDL-OPAC and NDL-Search are provided. Everyone can read and copy the reports.
   2. Institution (or its library) of the principal investigator.
   3. Other libraries.
   You can use Webcat Plus for searching available libraries, though some reports are not indexed.

Publications shown in KAKEN are included in academic journals.
【How to access】

1. CiNii the NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator
   Some domestic academic journals are available online.
2. Libraries
   You can use Webcat Plus for searching available libraries, and may read and copy.

KAKEN Sect., Scholarly and Academic Information Div., Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Dept., National Institution of Informatics.

kaken_fdbk@nii.ac.jp