Examples of ReaD being Useful

We would like you to read the following "Examples of ReaD being Useful", which contains the answers in the user questionnaire and comments the ReaD Office has received.
* Bold letters are used for the additional answers/comments.

[Joint research, sponsored research]

Details		Position
I realize that ReaD has functioned successfully as a source of information provision because I heard the comment “we collected your research information on ReaD in advance” from many enterprises which, offered joint research to us.		University – Professor
Researcher information on research employment history was very helpful for conducting joint research.		University – Lecturer, Research assistant
After my registered information in the ReaD English site caught the eyes of an overseas researcher, joint research started.		Private university – Professor
When I was in a graduate school, an unknown enterprise, which had found my registered information in ReaD asked me to conduct a sponsored research. Therefore, I feel ReaD is useful as a researcher information search site.		Public organization – Researcher
When our researchers hope joint development with other researchers in a specific category, I always use ReaD. After searching information in ReaD, I also use JDream II, etc. Important information for me includes whether the researcher has conducted joint research with other companies, whether there are other researchers in the same category, major projects and academic societies the researcher has participated in. The researcher information may be the starting point for joint research. Researcher information in ReaD is basic reference data for planning joint development.		Company – Employee
I use ReaD daily, because I can gain detailed information of my partner's research prior to starting a joint research.		Public university – Professor
ReaD was useful for gaining researcher information in advance such as his research domain and the details of his past research, when I wanted to ask him to conduct joint research. In addition, after searching the background information of the joint research members, I succeeded in asking them to conduct an evolutionary research.		Private university – Lecturer
I always use ReaD when I have to gain co-researcher's information such as his research domain and the details of his recent research through a method other than direct acquisition before attending an important meeting.		Private university – Professor
When asking an outside research institution for research collaboration, I always attach or recommend to read my research information in ReaD and in the website of the organization I belong to as a part of my personal introduction.		Private university – Professor

[Personnel selection (faculty, assessment committee member, review board member, instructor, etc.) / application]

Details		Position
When the university I worked at established a new course, I was in charge of recruiting new teachers. As it was a private university, I could not leak the information about the new course establishment to competitive universities at an early stage. Therefore, I was secretly searching for appropriate candidates for the teachers without open recruitment. At that time, I found candidate teachers who had the appropriate research achievements and academic background among the researchers in the appropriate category, using the ReaD search engine. Then, I had direct contact with the persons who were suitable for the faculty positions.		Private university – Professor
I am a member of the human resources planning committee. ReaD is very useful for collecting personal information about the candidates who apply for our open recruitment.		Private university – Professor
ReaD was useful for searching researchers in the most appropriate research domain when asking review of an academic society magazine.		Public organization – Researcher
I had the good fortune of getting the position of university faculty after I registered my information in ReaD.		National university corporation – Assistant professor University – Lecturer, Research assistant
With ReaD, I gained reference information before asking a researcher to write journal articles.		University – Lecturer, Research assistant
I carry out the selection of experts, using ReaD.		Public organization – Planning staff member
ReaD is very useful because I can immediately gain detailed information about faculties in other universities or applicants for new faculty recruitment without directly contacting them.		Public university – Professor
I use ReaD when searching for candidates of the assessment committee members for interim and post assessments of a basic research. The keyword search function based on project names is very useful. In addition, I can sometimes find co-authors, etc. successively while reading major papers in ReaD.		Company – Executive
The information center (library) receives many requests for searching instructors and committee members. I use ReaD every day to gain researcher information including his research domain and work record.		Public organization – Staff member
When applying for an open recruitment of university faculties, ReaD was useful for searching the information on the research institution, which had open recruitment and the details of the laboratory teachers' research.		National university corporation – Assistant professor
When I applied for a job opening in different field of mine, even though I had no experience in their research theme, the present superior of mine has found my potentiality and motivation through my career information in ReaD and I finally was employed.		Public organization – Postdoctoral fellow
Because I had just changed my research theme, I did not have a chance to release my research at any academic conferences and to present my research paper. However, through ReaD, I got an offer of new theme journal as a referee.		Public organization – Postdoctoral fellow

[Achievement search, PR, and others]

Details		Position
I received a sudden E-mail from an unknown student of another university saying that he would like to receive guidance from me on my research domain. As I had given the name of his advisory professor (I have not met the professor before), I gained the professor's information including his achievements and work record using ReaD, and I gave the student advice on the categories in which only I specialize so as to save the professor's honor. (I said to the student, "Your advisory professor has been specializing in this category.")		Private university – Professor
I was asked to assess papers of an academic society. Since I wanted to gain detailed information about the authors of the papers, I used the ReaD search function to check their achievements. In addition, I could read their representative papers and used them as reference materials for the assessment.		Private university – Professor
With ReaD, I can search researchers using the research subjects and then find the research result using the researcher's name. ReaD is very useful because a system only with a keyword search function is not enough for finding papers, etc.		Public university – Professor
The bibliographic data functioned successfully when I was searching details of present and past researches of individual researchers.		Company – Planning staff member
When I become interested in a researcher after reading his research paper, I can find his information including his other papers and research fields.		National university corporation – Associate professor
With ReaD, I often search for researchers and, using the bibliography information of the papers, gain the details of their research in the paper database.		Private university – Student
I received an inquiry about the details of my research from an overseas media company. Since the company wanted to know my profile, I gave the URL of the ReaD English site to the company and ask them to view my page for more information on my profile.		Private university – Professor
For conducting a survey, I used the ReaD data.		Public organization – Researcher
After finding Japanese researchers' names through the overseas paper database search engine, I could identify their Japanese names and the organizations they belong to. ReaD was useful for finding information on their recent research and for directly contacting those researchers.		National university corporation – Professor
I used the information in ReaD when I recommended an instructor for a lecture meeting.		Public organization – Researcher
ReaD was useful for gaining background information of the details of the lecture when I was asked to be a master of ceremonies for an academic society and a lecture meeting of a research domain in which I do not specialize.		National university corporation – Assistant professor
Since I am a contract researcher, my information is not introduced on the website of the laboratory I belong to. Therefore, ReaD is an important PR channel for me. I never forget to update my registered data once a month.		Public organization – Researcher
My research theme was entomology, but my reprinted article was requested by a medical institution. I got a chance to raise people’s interest in different field.		Public organization – Postdoctoral fellow
I have been checking the research results of my senior staff. The number of his research results leaps upward, so it makes me feel that I need to work harder than him.		Public organization – Postdoctoral fellow

[Advice to people who want to go to a university /graduate school]

Details		Position
Among the students whom I gave advice on their diploma projects, there was one who wanted to go to a graduate from a school of another university. After searching for a researcher in the research domain in which the student was interested in and studying the details of his achievements, I recommended the student to read the researcher's papers and gave advice on the graduate school, which seemed suitable for the student.		Private university – Professor
When a student whom I am in charge of tells me that he wants to go to a graduate school of another university, I have to accurately know the research domain of the university researcher in advance. For that purpose, ReaD is very useful.		Private university – Professor
When counseling on the choice of universities to a high school student, I used ReaD to search for researchers in the research domain in which the student was interested and gave advice on the university, which was suitable for the student.		High school – School librarian

 

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