About USACO

USACO CORPORATION; ITS BASIC PHILOSOPHY
USACO Corporation contributes to the development of our society through creation, accumulation and transfer of knowledge and information. This is the basic Corporate Philosophy of USACO which has been carried over by generations since its inception.

USACO has its operating principle under their corporate philosophy, namely "the only one company " of a business in information service industry so that customers will recognize our excellence in providing quality services to research communities.

To achieve this goal, all the USACO members strive to work together with its slogan to everybody "speed, smile, and sincerity"



USACO CORPORATION; ITS HISTORY
USACO Corporation has its origin as Yamakawa & Company back in 1934. Since then, we have been serving academic and educational communities with quality contents of scientific research achievements through such media as journals, books and documents. In the years of 2000s, those contents are now provided not only by print media, but also electronic media, which help scientist and engineers acquire information in more speed, better quality and quantity too. We are well adapted to this speedy technological and environmental changes of customers needs.



USACO CORPORATION; ITS INFORMATION SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS
USACO Corporation is an information service intermediaries linking and networking science information societies and publishers with its customers of librarians and researchers for contents of journals, books, database and documents in prints and electronic forms.

Services we provide to publishers and societies are
(1) distributions and dispatch services.
(2) marketing and promotion services
(3) clerical and monetary services
(4) overall consulting services
(5) translations and advertisement services, etc.

Services we provide to librarians and researchers are
(1) acquisition services
(2) cataloguing services
(3) reference and inquiring services
(4) liaison activities and services between publishers and their patrons such as consortia negotiations
(5) training services for database users
(6) system integration services for online databases