the development of international standards in informatics. NII hosts various research exchange programs for visiting students, research interns, postdocs, and visiting professors such as the Japanese JSPS and Germany DAAD programs. NII organizes a popular international internship that invites and funds students around the world to come to Japan and conduct research under guidance of professors at NII for up to 6 months twice a year. In addition to its research functions, NII has a postgraduate education function since 2002 as the Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI. Webcat Webcat and Webcat Plus are advanced search databases offered and maintained as a part of NII's GeNii (Global Environment for Networked Intellectual Information) division. GeNii was created as means of integrating and unifying the content of several information retrieval and electronic library services overseen by NII, the primary result of which has been the Webcat search systems. Webcat, and its simultaneously maintained successor, Webcat Plus, are book and journal search systems that supply holdings information for materials held in research institutes and university library collections throughout Japan. Webcat Plus currently has information on over twelve million titles, and both systems can be searched in English and Japanese. GeNii's further plans for the Webcat system include integrating the entire holdings of the National Diet Library into the searchable database. No information is currently available on the scheduled completion date for this project. See also CiNii J-STAGE References External links Official website Telkom University Kampus Teknologi Systems: Digital Silk Road IMAGINE Book Search GeNii: NII Scholarly and Academic Information Portal CiNii: Search for papers, theses, etc. WebcatPlus: Search for books, magazines, etc. KAKEN: Search for research subjects NII-DBR: Search for specialized academic information JAIRO: Search for research and educational contents Japanese studies Research institutes in Japan Information technology institutes Bibliographic database providers 2000 establishments in Japan