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Abstract

Authoritative as well as objective information on ranking or dominant research areas of academic departments/schools in a certain discipline is essential for the graduate school applicants. In this study, we performed an informetric analysis to identify dominant research areas in the top 10 U.S. LIS schools. We used two different datasets of research productivity and research interests of the LIS faculty. The correspondence analysis method was employed to graphically display the association between research areas and the LIS schools. We found that the research productivity data collected from SSCI database generated a very informative map presenting which research areas were dominant in which LIS schools. We also found that for the two most productive subject areas in LIS over the past 10-year period, the proportion of research articles in information retrieval decreased to a great extent in the recent 5-year period, whereas that of information seeking behavior showed an almost same degree of increase.

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본 연구는 인쇄형 해외학술지 원문제공서비스(DDS)의 경제성을 분석하기 위해 이용자 기반의 경제적 가치 평가 방법론 및 모델을 개발하고자 하였다. 본 연구를 위해 K기관의 구독중인 해외학술지 원문제공서비스의 데이터 중 일부가 분석을 위해 사용되었고 K기관 원문제공서비스 이용자를 대상으로 웹 서베이를 실시하였다. 해외학술지 원문제공서비스의 경제적 가치는 사용가치, 비사용가치, 그리고 기대가치가 고려되었고 사용가치 산출을 위해서는 소득접근법과 시장접근법을 제안하였다. 이용자에 의한 가치 산출을 위해, 본 연구는 조건부가치평가법을 적용하였고 이를 위해 가상 시나리오를 설정하였다.

Abstract

This study is to develope a user-based economic valuation methodology and model for the economic analysis on the DDS of foreign journals. For this study, the sampling data on the annual subscribed journals by K institution was used and the online questionnaire was used to collect data. There are three aspects of the economic value of DDS journals was classified as use value, non-use value, and expectancy value. We suggested the income and market approach to measure its economic use value. To estimate the its value by individual users, this study applied a contingent valuation method and designed the imaginary scenarios.