The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association 60(4) 144-150 Apr 2010
Institutional Repositories (IR) and Open Access Journals (OAJ) have been developed with the idea of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). This paper reviews IR and OAJ in terms of BOAI’s ideal and their sustainability. Many IR and OAJ are missing the view of “legal” or “technical” barriers in BOAI. It is important for IR to understand the research process. OAJ have to publish many articles wi...
Library, Information and Media Studies 7(1) 53-65 Oct 2009 [Refereed]
In this research we focus attention on number of citations as one of features of articles. We reveal the relationship between number of citations and number of downloads of contents in institutional repositories and discuss whether we can predict papers which will be highly-used on the basis of number of citations.
Our samples are journal articles which are included in Web of Science and thr...
I introduced some recent studies on indices for research assessment including Impact Factor, five-year Impact Factor, h-index and other h-indices, Eigenfactor and Article Influence, Usage Factor and other usage-based indices. In addition, to reveal the importance of the new indices, I examined relations between Impact Factor, Total Cites and indices which were introduced in Journal Citation Rep...
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
DRFIC2009 Dec 2009 Digital Repository Federation, SPARC Japan
The authors analyzed usage logs of WPs in Hitotsubashi University Repository and Academic Research Repository at the Institute of Developing Economies to reveal RePEc’s impact on the use of WPs in institutional repositories. The analysis revealed that the use of WPs which were added to RePEc was double that of not added. In particular, the use of papers written in English increased significantl...
DRFIC2009 Dec 2009 Digital Repository Federation, SPARC Japan
To better understand the current status of institutional repository usage, the authors analyzed relationships between the use of content and user domains, types of referrals, and content attributes in four institutional repositories: Hokkaido University collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP); Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI); University of Tsukuba Reposit...
