MLIS(University of Tsukuba), Ph.D (Library and Information Science)(University of Tsukuba)
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90707168
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Sho Sato obtained Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) in 2010 from University of Tsukuba, Ph.D (Library and Information Science) in 2013 from University of Tsukuba and now is an assistant professor in Doshisha University.
He specializes in open access, academic libraries, scholarly communication, and bibliometrics.
Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge 28(3) 223-252 Sep 2018 [Refereed]
The purpose of this study is to clarify the impact of the fact that “the information source is Wikipedia” on Japanese students’ credibility judgments of articles in encyclopedias. Six entries in Wikipedia Japanese edition and ENCYCLOPEDIA NIPPONIC...
9th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML 2017) May 2017 [Refereed]
We performed an eye-tracking experiment in a public library with 11 participants, using a wearable eye-tracker to gain more understanding of user gaze behavior and factors affecting that behavior. The experiment was conducted at the Ebina City Mai...
Joho Chishiki Gakkaishi 27(1) 23-42 Mar 2017 [Refereed]
This study clarifies the availability of altmetrics for 1,080,840 articles published in Japanese society journals between 2006 and 2015 using two altmetrics services; Ceek.jp Altmetrics and Altmetric. Only about two to three percent of articles we...
Shoko Nakahata, Emiko Sakamoto, Akiho Oda, Noriko Kobata and Sho Sato
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology 53(1) 1-4 Oct 2016 [Refereed]
This study explores the effect of color of book cover and typeface of title and author name on human gaze behavior while browsing bookshelves. An eye-tracking experiment was performed with 23 participants, using a wearable eye-tracker and 96 books...
HARADA, Takashi and NAKAJIMA, Sachiko and SATO, Sho and YANO, Marimi
Proceedings of IFLA WLIC 2016 Aug 2016 [Refereed]
The purpose of the study described here is to develop an e-learning system called NDC-trainer to be used for library classification training. This system gives LIS students the ability to practice creating proper book classification numbers by con...
Sho SATO, Mao UEDA, Aya KIHARA, Shiori NARUMIYA, Sayaka HAYASHI, Mami MORITA
Journal of Information Processing and Management 58(12) 908-918 Mar 2016 [Refereed]
This study clarifies the online availability of 1,209,674 articles published in Japanese society journals between 2002 and 2013. The study consists of three sections; 1) link analysis of CiNii Articles, 2) comparing investigation with J-STAGE and ...
Haruki Ono, Ayako Tokumitsu, Kanako Shimoyama, Sho Sato
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on asia - pacific library and information education and practice 367-374 Oct 2015 [Refereed]
Library cooperation is being attempted by many school libraries in Japan. It is possible for high school libraries to cooperate with public libraries, university libraries and other school libraries. However, it is not clear ...
Proceedings of 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics 539-540 Sep 2014 [Refereed]
The purpose of this study is the development of educational software for a library classification training system in the LIS program. This system provides LIS students with support in practicing how to construct class numbers for books. They can u...
Proceedings of 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics 76-79 Sep 2014 [Refereed]
We propose a method to recommend books
through machine learning modules based on several features, including library loan records. We evaluated the most effective
method among ones using (a) a Support Vector Machine (SVM), (b) Random Forest and (c...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences(3rd International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO)) 147 478-486 Aug 2014 [Refereed]
In order to show the effectiveness of using (a) library loan records and (b) information about book contents as a basis for book recommendations, we entered various data into a support vector machine (SVM), used it to recommend books to subjects, ...
Because there is no perfect technique for automatic identification of bibliographic records, cleaning the identification results manually is indispensable. However, to recruit human resources for the task is often difficult. This paper discusses a...
Effectiveness of Using Library Loan Records and Bibliographic Information for Book Recommendation
Library and Information Science (68) 23-53 Dec 2012 [Refereed]
Purpose: This paper explores the roles of institutional repositories （IRs） for Japanese psychologists by analyzing their awareness of IRs, article deposition into and article acquisition from IR, and other possible factors that might have impacts ...
SANNAMI Chihomi; OCHIAI Yoichi; IKEYA Chinatsu; SATO Sho; ITSUMURA Hiroshi
Library, Information and Media Studies 10(1) 47-56 Sep 2012 [Refereed]
In this paper, the authors reports on science communication using ICT adopting AISAS theory on a trial basis,to verify the validity of marketing theory in science communication. The authors adopted AISAS theory because it is able to use AISAS proc...
Japanese Journal of Science Communication 11 63-73 Jun 2012 [Refereed]
In the last decade, scientists are expected to present their researches. It is symbolized as the term: "science communications" and "inter-discipline communications." We suggest and explain "Presentation Competition of Graduate Students" (PCGS). I...
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 activ...
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 ...
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...
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 performanc...
How People Use NDL search with access ppoints: Usage log analysis of NDL search
Sho SATO
TP&D Forum Series: Technical Processing & Documentation Forum Series 26 3-11 Dec 2017
This study clarifies how people use NDL search with each access points based on the usage logs of NDL search. The research period was from June to November 2015. The results showed that: (1) most users searched by title when using advanced search ...
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association 66(3) 97-140 Mar 2016 [Invited]
Although peer review is the core distinguishing feature of the modern scholarly communication, the feature has not worked today because there are too many researchers and articles for the capacity of the system. As a result, new issues such as abs...
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association 63(12) 492-498 Dec 2013 [Invited]
It has been difficult for us to gather library-related information in full detail because the number of library official blogs and librarians using Twitter has been increasing and they publish too much information. In this situation, it is importa...
Journal of Information Processing and Management 56(7) 414-424 Oct 2013 [Invited]
This article overviews the background and the history of the open access (OA) movement, and summarizes current issues of OA. It has been revealed that Gold OA is sustainable business model. Whereas Green OA with institutional repositories has not ...
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association 63(2) 51-56 Feb 2013 [Invited]
With the growth of e-resources including e-journals, the log analysis has increasingly been used as a valid research method. Although it is useful to grasp (understand) the user behaviors that analyzing the usage log data with its comprehensive re...
Open Repositories 2015 9 Jun 2015 Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and Virginia Tech University Libraries
The system can divide into two major components. One is the log repository which collects filtered access logs from Japanese IRs as data source. Unprocessed logs are filtered based on COUNTER-like processing such as robots exclusion. The filtering...
Adoption of designated administrator system in public libraries and operating policies of libraries: A survey of guidelines for applicants of designated administrator
Satoko YAMASHITA, Sho SATO
Japan Society for Information and Media Studies 29 Jun 2013 Japan Society for Information and Media Studies
Committee on Japanese Materials / North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Materials (NCC) Meetings in Tandem 21 Mar 2013
I talked about my graduate research which is about the role of institutional repositories in Japan.
After that, based on the result of the research, I tried to re-envision librarian’s role in this digital era.
We analyzed the rate of Japanese journal articles archived in institutional repositories based on the data of Society Copyright Policies in Japan (SCPJ) database and CiNii. As a result of analysis, only about 0.9% of Japanese journal articles publ...
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 inc...
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 ...
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 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-Japa...
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 ...
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 Univ...
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