KISTI held the Seminar on Information Dissemination and Technology Transfer and experts from JST Japan(Japan Science and Technology Agency) were invited to talk at the seminar, which was held in association with KISTI's benchmarking on advanced institutes, between August 31 and September 1 at its head office in Daejeon.

The seminar sought to promote executive understanding of each other, as well as benchmark advanced other institutes effectively. And the topics discussed during the seminar were as follows; △A-STEP △J-STAGE △Journal at rchive △Metadata Exchange △J-Global. This seminar was attended by a number of KISTI researchers who were interested in the subject.