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...
Library and Information Science 60 1-27 Dec 2008 [Refereed]
Purpose: In recent years, university management has been required to be more efficient and outsourcing has been increasingly used in academic libraries in Japan. However, since surveys have not been done to date on the current state of outsourcing in academic libraries in this country, the authors conducted a survey to provide an overview of the situation.
Methods: The survey was conducted ...
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...
近年，図書館情報学における大きな潮流にオープンアクセス運動がある．この運動を積極的に支援している財団がOpen Society Institute（開かれた社会財団）である．本稿では，OSIおよび彼らが中心となり宣言したBudapest Open Access Initiative（BOAI）の思想的背景を概観し，その思想が現在のオープンアクセス運動に如何に受容されているかを分析した．
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