• Journal of Information Management
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.41-62
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• 2012

Because of the electronic commerce development, share of the internet bookstore is rising every year in the publication circulation market. Also, the book search in the internet bookstore may smarten more forward according to development trend of the electronic book, and importance of the classification system of the internet bookstore is expected that also rise continuously. The purpose of this study is to offer the classification system that can search the social science books of the internet bookstore efficiently. For this study, compared and analyzed the classification system of internal and external 10 internet bookstores. This study may be used to other subject study of the internet bookstore, and it expect to is used to basic data for the classification system of the internet bookstore in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.17-34
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• 2001

It is very important to organize materials at intemet bookstores. It is time for us to develop a subject classification scheme as a tool for increasing the effectiveness of information retrieval with ease of subject access. The purpose of this study is to examine the subject features of internet bookstores in order to suggest the effective design of the subject scheme for them. Nine internet bookstore websites are analyzed at the aspect of the subject classification of the materials. Based upon the results of this study, an effective subject classification for internet bookstores is suggested to provide a better subject access.