Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies
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Graduate Students
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MLIS
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Sho Sato obtained Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) in 2010 from University of Tsukuba and now is a graduate student. He specializes in open access, academic libraries, scholarly communication, and bibliometrics.
Library, Information and Media Studies 9(1) 51-64 Nov 2011 [Refereed]
As more papers have become open access through the institutional repositories and other ways, not only researchers and students, but also lay people have gained a greater opportunity to access those papers and use the papers for non-academic activities. In this study, we analyzed how the papers deposited in the institutional repositories were linked from external web pages to explore the curren...
Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge 21(3) 383-402 Sep 2011 [Refereed]
To evaluate how the deposition of journal articles in Institutional Repositories (IRs) affects the number of citations and e-journal usage, we placed some articles published in Zoological Science in two Japanese IRs and collected their usage data in IRs and e-journals, as well as with the number of resulting citations. The experiment was started in 2008 and we compared the number of e-journal u...
Joho Chishiki Gakkaishi 21(3) 333-349 May 2011 [Refereed]
Open access movement is a hot issue in a recent Library and Information Science. This article analyzed 'the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI),' which triggered the open access movement. First, this article introduced the foundation, 'the Open Society Institute (OSI),' which has proposed and supported BOAI, and its founder, George Soros. We also surveyed their philosophical basis, the conce...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO 2011) 4 2011 [Refereed]
To show the effectiveness or limitation of using library loan records for book recommendation, we implemented the collaborative filtering system (henceforth LLR system) which is similar to that of Harada & Masuda (2010) and compared its performance with Amazon. It was found that LLR system could not outperform Amazon. Library loan records contain users' privacy and collaborative filtering usual...
Open Access to STM Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries 157-166 2011 [Refereed]
To evaluate how the deposition of journal articles in Institutional Repositories
(IRs) affects the number of citations and e-journal usage, we placed some articles
published in Zoological Science in two IRs, and compared their use in IRs
with e-journals, as well as with the number of resulting citations between 2008
and 2009. The results reveal that deposit in IRs did not reduce e-journal usage...
The 5th SPARC Japan Seminar 2011 Feb 2012 SPARC Japan
We analyze and report the PLoS ONE articles written by Japanese authors belong to Japanese research and educational institutions by using Web of Science and comparing the results with other journal articles in the same fields. According to the increase of the number of article publications in PLoS ONE, the number of articles written by Japanese researchers has been increasing every year. Compar...
19th annual meeting of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge May 2011 Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
To reveal the validity of Wikipedia as a gateway of information seeking activities, we examined more than 1,190,000 external links embedded in Japanese Wikipedia to see if there were any dead links or access problems. As a result of analysis, the following facts have been found; 1) About 11% of external links in Japanese Wikipedia were invalid; 2) The external links with the domains such as edu...
2010 International Symposium on the Transformation and Innovation of Library and Information Science Nov 2010 Graduate Institute of Library and Infromation Studies, National Taiwan Normal University; Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan); Chinese Association of Library and Information Science Education
This paper reports the development of a platform called the pingpong platform with the aim of collecting and visualizing the information on human behavior and also the outcome of a series of design workshops held for trying out this platform. With the proliferation of new technology, it has become easier for us to obtain the data of human behavior. Making good use of such collected data, new at...
The 2010 CiSAP Colloquium on Digital Library Research Nov 2010 CiSAP
To reveal from which country or region the users accessed articles and what their access paths were, we analyzed six Japanese Institutional Repositories’ (IRs) usage logs. According to the results, articles written in English were used by non-Japanese; mainly they were from Asia, Europe and North America. The largest user group was Asian people and they tended to use STM articles than others. I...
IFLA Satellite Pre-Conference, Open Access to Science Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries Aug 2010 IFLA Sections: Science and technology Libraries, Health and Biosciences Libraries
