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Domain Analysis on the Field of Open Access by Co-Word Analysis: Based on Published Journals of Library and Information Science during 2013 to 2018 (동시출현단어 분석을 활용한 오픈액세스 분야의 지적구조 분석: 2013년부터 2018년까지 출판된 문헌정보학 저널을 기반으로)

  • Kim, Sun-Kyum;Kim, Wan-Jong;Seo, Tae-Sul;Choi, Hyun-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.333-356
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    • 2019
  • Open access has emerged as an alternative to overcome the crisis brought by scholarly communication on commercial publishers. The purpose of this study is to suggest the intellectual structure that reflects the newest research trend in the field of open access, to identify how the subject area is structured by using co-word analysis, and compare and analyze with the existing study. In order to do this, the total number of dataset was 761 papers collected from Web of Science during the period from January 2012 to November 2018 using information science and 2,321 keywords as a noun phase are extracted from titles and abstracts. To analyze the intellectual structure of open access, 13 topic clusters are extracted by network analysis and the keywords with higher centrallity are drawn by visualizing the intellectual relationship. In addition, after clustering analysis, the relationship was analyzed by plotting the result on the multidimensional scaling map. As a result, it is expected that our research helps the research direction of open access for the future.

The Dispersion Phenomenon of Journal Citations in a Digital Environment (디지털 환경에서 학술지 인용의 분산화 현상에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Eun-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.211-222
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    • 2009
  • Electronic publishing has influenced, and in some ways changed, information seeking, reading patterns and citation behaviours. This study collected the Cited Half-Lives, the indicator implies the life-span of scholarly journals, from JCR Social Science edition the before and after of the prevalence of electronic journals, and observed if there are some changes in these two periods. The analysis results of eight disciplines show that the average Cited Half-Lives increased in 2007 than in 1994 for seven disciplines except the demography. Especially in the four disciplines of economics, education, finance and sociology, the average Cited Half-Lives increased significantly. This results show that the concentration, researchers cite more recent articles and concentrate their citations on fewer ones, is lightening and the dispersion of citations is actually increasing. With the online availability of articles and journals the old online materials can be often accessed, used and cited more frequently, the more growth potential of Cited Half-Lives are made in a digital environment. Further research needs to investigate if the phenomenon will become more obvious in various disciplines after a few years.

Decision Making for Train Maintenance Facility using Simulation and Entropy measurement (시뮬레이션과 엔트로피 척도를 이용한 철도 차량기지 대안 선정)

  • Kim, Kyung-Rok;Chun, Hyun-Jae;Lee, Hong-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.8
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    • pp.2809-2817
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    • 2010
  • The scholarly concern of train industry has been improved, since country focuses on this field. Especially, train maintenance facility has been studied for construction, because the facility is important to inspect the train that transports passenger and cargo. Various operation plans and criteria are considered to build train maintenance facility. In this paper, the decision making of train maintenance facility for construction is studied and analyzed with simulation, because mathematical theory is restricted to consider various operation plans and criteria. Through simulation, we analyze warm-up after selecting dependent factors, and extract data. The data is used to select a alternative in this problem, Multiple Attribute Decision Making(MADM). Previous study is difficult, complex and subjective for decision making. However, entropy measurement we used help decision maker for decision making, easily, simply, and objectively. This method can have decision maker choose the best alternative in case the train maintenance facility construction is fast revitalized.

Seeking Alternative Models and Research Trends for Big Deals in the Electronic Journal Consortium (전자저널 빅딜 계약의 연구 동향과 대안 탐색)

  • Kim, Sang-Jun;Kim, Jeong-Hwan
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.85-111
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to seek a workable alternative to replace a big deal related to the journal budget for the maintenance of academic libraries with the largest issue on the E-journal consortium. The contents of this study was to present it. It had examined the current situation, strengths, weaknesses and corresponding to replace the big deal contract. After reviewing the literature, we looked into the alternative activities for the big deal such as open access-based, usage-based, consortium improvement-based, publishers lead, and other models. As a result, the 'consortium cost reapportion model' was an alternative for the KESLI. The alternative was in the short term for cost division format, but long-term oriented for a consortium single(bloc) payment type or national licence model. The model was based on the data from the last year. It had evaluated download the PDF and HTML documents, but the three times weighting more than others, and the rest of 14 factors of 0.5 to 5 out of 100 total score. The total amount negotiated by national units 10, 20 and 30 grades for the final step was allocated to the participating library on the KESLI consortium.

Strategies for Improving the Collection and Use of Research Data in the Humanities (인문학 분야 연구데이터의 수집 및 활용성 증진을 위한 전략 연구 - 기초학문자료센터를 중심으로 -)

  • Shim, Wonsik;Ahn, Hye-yeon;Byun, Jeayeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.155-183
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    • 2015
  • The rapid growth of information technologies and data networks has increased the volume of data generated from scholarly research and the possibilities of re-using and sharing such data. However, there is a serious problem of management and sharing of research data due to the lack of facilitating policies and supporting infrastructure. In particular, few data repositories exist that support systematic collection and sharing of research data in the humanities. In this regard, the Korea Research Memory (KRM) established by the Korea Research Foundation is a rare exception. The purpose of this research is to present specific processes and strategies that can facilitate the data collection, reuse and preservation through the KRM using task analysis and source document gathering as main focal points. In addition, in order for the effective collection and sharing of research data, the following recommendations are proposed: 1) the need for the adoption of data management plan related policies that govern the collection and sharing of research data generated from publicly funded research projects, 2) the need for training and support services for individual researchers and research institutes, 3) the need for training data specialists, and 4) the citation scheme and structure designed for research data.

An Investigation on Characteristics and Intellectual Structure of Sociology by Analyzing Cited Data (사회학 분야의 연구데이터 특성과 지적구조 규명에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Hyung Wook;Chung, EunKyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.109-124
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    • 2017
  • Through a wide variety of disciplines, practices on data access and re-use have been increased recently. In fact, there has been an emerging phenomenon that researchers tend to use the data sets produced by other researchers and give scholarly credit as citation. With respect to this practice, in 2012, Thomson Reuters launched Data Citation Index (DCI). With the DCI, citation to research data published by researchers are collected and analyzed in a similar way for citation to journal articles. The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics and intellectual structure of sociology field based on research data, which is one of actively data-citing fields. To accomplish this purpose, two data sets were collected and analyzed. First, from DCI, a total of 8,365 data were collected in the field of sociology. Second, a total of 12,132 data were collected from Web of Science with a topic search with 'Sociology'. As a result of the co-word analysis of author provided-keywords for both data sets, the intellectual structure of research data-based sociology was composed of two areas and 15 clusters and that of article-based sociology was composed with three areas and 17 clusters. More importantly, medical science area was found to be actively studied in research data-based sociology and public health and psychology are identified to be central areas from data citation.

A Study on the Characteristics of Open Access in Korean Scholarly Journals: Focused on KCI Journals (국내 학술지의 오픈액세스 특성에 관한 연구: KCI 등재지를 대상으로)

  • Kim, Gyuhwan;Joung, Kyoung Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.251-267
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    • 2017
  • This study aimed to analyze open access features of 1,890 Korean scientific journals registered in the Korea Citation Index (KCI). To this end, this study classified open access features of the target scientific journals into two main aspects, free access and free redistribution. The analysis results indicated that the target scientific journals had strong free access aspects. Based on websites, 67% of the target scientific journals allowed for free access without a login process and based on free database, 48% provided free access. On the other hand, the target scientific journals had weaker free redistribution aspects compared to their free access aspects. Only 14% of them offered the CC (creative commons) license. Another finding was that there were clear differences in open access aspects by academic field. Medicine, pharmacy, natural science, agriculture, fisheries, oceanography, and engineering had stronger open access aspects than humanities, sociology, arts, physical education, and interdisciplinary science. It appears that the difference was caused by the presence or absence of organizations supporting distribution of scientific journals of the fields concerned. To narrow the gap, it is recommended that the open access governance system is established to set up open access policies for Korean scientific journals regardless of academic fields and to support them.

Building Hierarchical Knowledge Base of Research Interests and Learning Topics for Social Computing Support (소셜 컴퓨팅을 위한 연구·학습 주제의 계층적 지식기반 구축)

  • Kim, Seonho;Kim, Kang-Hoe;Yeo, Woondong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.489-498
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    • 2012
  • This paper consists of two parts: In the first part, we describe our work to build hierarchical knowledge base of digital library patron's research interests and learning topics in various scholarly areas through analyzing well classified Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) of NDLTD Union catalog. Journal articles from ACM Transactions and conference web sites of computing areas also are added in the analysis to specialize computing fields. This hierarchical knowledge base would be a useful tool for many social computing and information service applications, such as personalization, recommender system, text mining, technology opportunity mining, information visualization, and so on. In the second part, we compare four grouping algorithms to select best one for our data mining researches by testing each one with the hierarchical knowledge base we described in the first part. From these two studies, we intent to show traditional verification methods for social community miming researches, based on interviewing and answering questionnaires, which are expensive, slow, and privacy threatening, can be replaced with systematic, consistent, fast, and privacy protecting methods by using our suggested hierarchical knowledge base.

Love : A Concept Analysis for Nursing Theory Development (간호이론 개발을 위한 개념분석 : 사랑)

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    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.369-376
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    • 1993
  • Since nursing has come of age both as a profession and as a scholarly discipline, there has been increasing concern with delineating its theory base. In 1978 Chinn and Jacobs asserted that “the development of theory is the most crucial task facing nursing today.” The basic building blocks of theories are concepts. Concept formation begins in infancy, for concepts help us to categorize and organize our environmental stimuli. Concepts help us to identify how our experiences are similar or equivalent by categorizing all the things that are alike about them. concepts can be primitive, concrete, or abstract. Concept Analysis is a strategy that examines the attributes or characteristics of a concept. It is a formal, linguistic exercise to determine those defining attributes. It encourages communication. Its basic purpose is to distinguish between the defining and irrelevant attributes of a concept similarities. It is a process of determining the differences between concepts and it is useful for several reasons. It is an excellent way to begin examining information in preparation for research or theory construction and results in an operational definition and a list of defining attributes and antecedents. It provides the scientist with an excellent beginning for a new tool, is an excellent way of evaluating an old one and is useful in evaluating existing instruments. The steps of concept analysis are : 1. Select a concept, 2. Determine the aims or purposes of the analysis, 3. Identify all uses of the concept that you can discover, 4. Determine the defining attributes, 5. Construct a model case, 6. Construct borderline, re-lated, contrary, invented, and illegitimate cases, 7. Identify antecedents and consequences, 8. Define empirical referents. In this paper, the concept selected for analysis was Love. The concept of love is of great interest to nursing because loving care is considered vital to the nursing care of patients. The aims of the concept analysis of love were to clarify the meaning of love, to develop an operational definition for it and to contribute to existing nursing theory. Love influences the quality of life which is the goal of nursing according to Parse in her Human Becoming Theory. Lived experiences are the entities for study in Parse's Research Methodology. Human caring, human understanding, and human becoming are the most important issues in lived experiences. In this research, dictionaries and literature from nursing philosophy and other human disciplines were used to identify the concept of love. As many different instances of the concept as could be found were examinned. The model case was a real life example of the use of the concept. Next borderline, related, invented, and contrary cases were constructed for the purpose of providing examples of “not the concept” and for promoting further understanding of the concept being discussed. The defining attributes of the concept of love were concern, responsibility, respect, understanding and dedication. Love was defined as showing concern and understanding. relating with mutual respect and dedicating oneself responsibly to others. Concept analysis is a highly creative activity and may add significant new information to a given area of interest. It is a strategy for developing a concept based on observation or other forms of empirical evidence. The purpose of concept analysis is to generate new ideas. It provides a method of examining data for new insights that contribute to theoretical development. This concept analysis suggests that a nurse’s love for patients is shown in the process of giving oneself in mutual relationships of responsibility and respect and in continuously providing understanding and quality human care for them.

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A Study on Users' Perception towards the Utility of Publication Formats between Printed Books and Electronic Books of Korean Classics Collations and Translations (고전적(古典籍) 정리·번역서의 종이책과 전자책 이용에 대한 이용자 인식 연구)

  • Ko, Young Man;Shim, Wonsik;Song, Min-Sun;Yoon, Hyun Joung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.259-283
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    • 2018
  • This research aims at understanding the differences between expert and general users' perceptions regarding publication preferences for Korean classics collations and translations in order to formulate future directions for these materials. For this purpose, an overview of changes in publishing in general as well as current status of collation/translation of Korean classics in particular are being identified. An online questionnaire was carried out in order to collect data regarding perceptions and preferences of expert users and general users of Korean classics. The results are based on the analyses of more than 1,000 responses. The analyses show that electronic books will not completely replace printed books and publishing both electronic and printed books in tandem for the time being is most preferable in order to satisfy varying user needs. Statistical analysis shows differences in terms of use value, value from possession, and readability of electronic and printed books in the two groups of users. However, as for the value of preservation by relevant institutions, there was a statistical difference between two groups towards printed books unlike their electronic equivalents. The research shows strong preference towards printed forms of classics collations and translations for the purpose of scholarly research and translation. Actual usage statistics reveal much heavy use of online database of classics translations compared to the use of available electronic books. For future publishing decisions for classics collations and translations will need to take into consideration of their special characteristics and symbolic nature. Proper representation of these materials into electronic format would require a standardized platform that enable various uses in different environments.