Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 51, Issue 9
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  • Is the electronic journal consortium effective for the journal price control? Electronic journal consortium activity of Japan Pharmaceutical Library Association
    Isao HOROTA, Tomoko NAGANAWA
    2008 Volume 51 Issue 9 Pages 631-641
    Published: 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.51.631
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    In this manuscript, we described about the electronic journal consortium activity doing by Japan Pharmaceutical Library Association and The Japan Medical Library Association. There are two feature point in this consortium. First, the member of tow associations can select the contract which they perticipate. Second, corporate library can perticipate to some of the contract. How the consortium was established and have acted, and the problem at present and the view in the future of the consortium is also described.
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  • "Thesaurus for Medical and Health Related Terms" and it's application for indexing
    Masami HAMADA, Setsuko SAKUMA, Kazunari MISAWA
    2008 Volume 51 Issue 9 Pages 642-652
    Published: 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.51.642
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    "Ichu-Shi Web" is the database that contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 2,500 biomedical journals and other serial publications published in Japan. It was started in 2000. The number of citations is more than 300,000 per year and now exceeds 6.5 million. Trained indexers attach descriptors (controlled keywords) that are relevant to the subject contents of each article, based on the "Thesaurus for Medical and Health-Related Terms (Ichu-Shi Thesaurus)". We have edited and published the thesaurus as a tool for indexing and searching since 1983. The 6th edition based on the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) 2005 has been published in January 2007. It contains 25,317 descriptors and more than 300,000 synonyms that are connected with each other (mapping) in the thesaurus management system. Using the system, indexers can easily find descriptors suitable to the article. Furthermore "Ichu-Shi Web" automatically performs descriptors search using a mapping feature, without referencing the thesaurus in advance. Here we described the current indexing rules of the Ichu-Shi Thesaurus and the indexing support function, a part of the total Ichu-Shi database processing system, which has been newly developed.
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  • A pinpoint search system for a specialized research area in physics and engineering : "Defect dat@base" for defects in semiconductors and semiconductor devices
    Takahide UMEDA, Shigeru HAGIWARA, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Junichi ISOYA
    2008 Volume 51 Issue 9 Pages 653-666
    Published: 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.51.653
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    Similar to the Internet, scientific and technological communications are rapidly accelerating in the 21st century. Among many papers in scientific journals, researchers must find out proper ones by using search engines of journal databases as well as other techniques that enables "pinpoint" search. We developed such a pinpoint search system based on the social bookmark technology, entitled "Defect dat@base" (http://www.kc.tsukuba.ac.jp/div-media/defect/). This database covers the specialized research area of "Defects in Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices", and is collecting and precisely classifying important papers in this area in cooperation with specialist members. To extend and maintain the collection by not only human specialists but also computers, we studied statistical and morphological algorithms. As a result, we could learn how to choose important papers as accurate as human specialists do. Using over 16,000 papers of physics and engineering and over 77,000 e-mail texts, we carried out a large-scale comparative studies about differences between human and computer, and reached the following conclusion: Scientific papers are not as easily selectable as we can do for other types of texts, and for the better selection, we should focus on technical terms of the relevant area as well as abstracts and title words of the relevant papers.
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  • Past, present and future of information education : From a macroscopic standpoint
    Makoto TOHMA
    2008 Volume 51 Issue 9 Pages 667-683
    Published: 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.51.667
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    We outline information education in elementary and secondary education in Japan with a subject named "Information Studies". First, we outline how the government researched information education when introducing it into the previous curriculum guidelines. Next, we outline how the government introduced the subject named "Information Studies" into the current curriculum. Next, we describe the syllabus of information education, the location of the subject "Information Studies" in information education, the contents of the subject "Information Studies", and the current status of the subject "Information Studies". Finally, we make a prediction about the next curriculum guidelines and outline the problems of information education in elementary and secondary education in relation to the subject "Information Studies".
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