Abstract
This document analyzes literature demands based
on data from ILL requests at the Nagasaki University Medical
Library from FY 2004 to FY 2012. The Division of Nursing,
School of Health Sciences, issued the most requests, followed
by the Department of Dermatology and the First Department
of Internal Medicine.Requests from laboratories in Clinical
Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, accounted for about
40 percent of all requests. Frequently appearing words in
the text data of journal titles were totaled using MeCab
and Python. As a result, “surgery” and “nursing” appeared
frequently. The requested years were also compared with the
article publication dates. Articles from the last three years
accounted for about 40 percent of all the articles, while articles
from the last ten years accounted for about 70 percent. Thus,
the demand for recent literature is relatively high. Among
the requests with canceled applications, many articles were
possessed by the Sakamoto campus (medical campus) or were
articles appearing in e-journals.
