• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.19-31
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• 2010

The value of the university library to faculty, students, and administrators has long been assumed. In an era of decreasing resources and increasing choices, academic librarians must now find the best ways to measure and demonstrate the value of the library to all of their stakeholders, including faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students, administrators, and funders. Techniques to assess and measure value can also help library decision makers select the products and services that provide the highest return on investment (ROI) to the university community. It is important to measure and convey the value of the academic library; it is also possible to increase the value of the library to the university by carefully refocusing the academic library's products and services. In this presentation I will discuss methods and results from a recently completed study in eight countries that measured the value and ROI of e-journals to the grants process. The Return on Investment (ROI) of the e-journals collection to grant funding ranged from over 15:1 to just under 1:1 in 9 institutions. In addition, many other qualitative and quantitative measures of value are as important as derived measures like ROI. Building on that research study, I am now leading a team that includes the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and several university libraries in a project funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. We are collecting data using on the value of a wide range of library services using several methods for measuring the value of what the university library contributes to the institution and its stakeholders.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.103-126
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• 2007

Recent controversies surrounding plagiarism of research papers submitted to domestic scholarly journals and dissertations lead to scrutiny in the level of scholarly community and that of government as well. Particularly the latter is beginning to deal with the problem as a matter of establishing academic and research ethics at international level. This study looks into the notions and definitions of citation and plagiarism4 along with some basic issues around them in academic and research writings. This study is done in the perspective of library and information science through literature survey. And the following three aspects are investigated and analysed in detail as results of this study. First. the types and related problems of plagiarism are closely examined. Second, citation styles in writing academic and research papers are compared and analysed. Finally, deterring and preventing measures against plagiarism and appropriate citation practices are suggested.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.19 no.3 s.106
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• pp.54-59
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• 1980

In order to identify the trends, a hundred and seventy-six researches reported in The Journal of Nurse''s Academic Society and a hundred forty-two researches reported in The Korean Nurse were gathered for analysis according the general factors; journal re

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.77-88
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• 1990

Operational Research (OR) is little in Bangladesh in either the academic or the business areas. However, some OR studies have been carried out in Bangladesh. These studies are scattered in various journals and documents and are not all easily accessible. In this paper an attempt has been made to bring together some of them.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.27 no.2 s.145
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• pp.83-98
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• 1988

Relaxation technique is an independent nursing intervention used in various stressful situation. This study is aimed at analyzing the research trend trend and effect of relaxation technique, suggesting the direction of future researches, and contributing

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.827-839
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• 2015

Extraction of communities from a journal citation database by the citation structure is a useful tool to see closely related groups of the journals. SCI of Thomson Reuters or SCOPUS of Elsevier have had tried to grasp community structure of the journals in their indices according to citation relationships, but such a trial has not been made yet with the Korean Citation Index, KCI. Therefore, in this study, we extracted communities of the journals of the natural science area in KCI, using various clustering algorithms for a social network based on citations among the journals and compared the groups obtained with the classfication of KCI. The infomap algorithm, one of the clustering methods applied in this article, showed the best grouping result in the sense that groups obtained by it are closer to the KCI classification than by other algorithms considered and reflect well the citation structure of the journals. The classification results obtained in this study might be taken consideration when reclassification of the KCI journals will be made in the future.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.1-26
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• 2017

This study introduces research trends in Asia by analyzing the publications of scholars in major universities in Asia, which can provide Asian researchers with what topics Asian researchers have been conducting the last six years. In addition, this study provides information on who have been active in research with the list of top one hunred scholars according to their H index scores. For this analysis, we have collected academic publications of all the professors in major universities from twelve Asian countries, analyzed what topics they have been studying along with which topics are most popular by country and geographical area, evaluated scholars' academic performances in terms of their impacts on academic society, and finally selected the top one hunred scholars among them. This study makes some unique contributions to the academic societies in Asia at least in two ways. Firstly, this study provides Asian researchers with information on what Asian researchers have been studying for the last six years, which is expected to help Asian researchers to understand research trends in Asia. Secondly, this study introduces who has been active in academic research in what countries or universities in Asia, which has never been addressed in the academic societies in Asia. This study hopefully generates some positive competition among Asian scholars and acknowledges their contribution to academic societies.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.3-10
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• 2016

This study was conducted to identify Korea's TRIZ research trends and to propose implications for setting a direction for future TRIZ research by analyzing TRIZ-related research over the past 15 years, or from 1998 to 2013. The subjects in this study were 256 published studies, including 149 studies in academic journals, 97 master theses, and 10 doctorate theses. This study reached the following conclusion. First, academic journals were the most frequent form of publication of TRIZ-related studies, followed by master's degree theses, and doctorate theses. Second, two or more TRIZ tools were used to solve problems and the most frequently used topic was technical contradiction as the result of frequency analysis for TRIZ research topics. This signified that it was easier to solve problems when various TRIZ tools were used, rather than applying a single TRIZ tool while technical contradiction was considered to be actively used as it allowed the relatively easy understanding of TRIZ. Third, the use of TRIZ research topics had increased and diversified each year. This could be interpreted to be based on the increased understanding of TRIZ. Fourth, case studies and experimental research were the most frequently used methods in TRIZ-related research. This was because various TRIZ tools were applied on problem solving situations, which were directly proposed as the research result. Fifth, the use of TRIZ was increasing in the educational field. Specifically, it was noted that TRIZ was used in creativity education with the use of 40 invention principles in elementary, middle, and high schools.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.22 no.3 s.57
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• pp.307-326
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• 2005

Open access movement supports the principle that the published output of scientific research should be available to everyone without charge. The term open access is used in the broad context of the wider movement. To achieve the objectives of open access to scholarly journal literature, BOAI(Budapest Open Access Initiative) recommends using two complementary strategies: 'self-archiving' in institutional/disciplinary repositories and 'open access journals.' This study introduces the strategies of open access movements and analyzes the ways to help the cause of open access by academic stakeholders(i.e., researchers, librarians, universities, publishers, foundations, learned societies, and government) from the perspective of two BOAI strategies.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.415-425
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• 2006

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the contents and trend of smoking and smoking cessation related nursing research in Korea and to suggest the directions for future research. Method: Eight nursing professional Journals published by the Korean Academic Nursing Society and by 7 - adult, community, psychiatric, fundamental, obstetrics, pediatrics, administrative- nursing societies from beginning edition to October 2005 were selected. They were examined for the proportion of published research, participants, research designs, key words, measurement tools, and the intervention outcomes in the case of the experimental research. Result: Of the research analyzed, 87 studies were smoking and smoking cessation related research. The Journals, which had published the most number of smoking and smoking cessation research were J of Korean Academic Society, J of Korean Adult Nursing Society, J of Korean Community Nursing Society. The most popular research design was an descriptive design. The major concepts studied were related psychosocial variables. Among 87 studies, only 11 were experimental research. Conclusion: Research on smoking and smoking cessation in the nursing discipline are increasing. However more research to test the effectiveness of nursing intervention programs are needed.