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Global Service of Korean Schol-arly Journals

2011. 8. 30Tae-sul SEO

tsseo@kisti.re.kr

Principal Researcher, Dept. of Information ServiceKorea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI)

The First Congress ofAsia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME)

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Agenda

• Backgrounds

• Current State

• Challenges

• A Success Story

• KISTI’s Approches– KISTI Model

– DOI Approach

– Open Access Approach

• Concluding Remark

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Backgrounds

Global ServiceOf

KoreanScholarlyJournals

Korean Government wants to maximize the impact of national R&D projects.

Foreign re-searchers look for Ko-rean journals.

Journal pub-lishers want to interna-tionalize their journals.

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Current State

Language Barrier No. of Journal in English: less than 200

Few Journals indexed in Int’l DBs

WoS: 72 SCOPUS: 114

Low Impact Factor The highest: 3.15 No. of Journal with over 2.0: 5

Country Ranks of Holding WoS JournalCountry Ranks of Holding WoS Journal

Korean Journals with Over 2 in IF

Korean Journals with Over 2 in IF

Problems of Korean Scholarly Journals

Rank Country Name

No. of Journal

1 USA 3,704

2 UK 2,017

3 Netherland 783

4 German 602

5 Japan 208

6 France 202

7 Swiss 183

8 Australia 158

9 Russia 129

10 China 122

11 Canada 122

12 Italy 112

13 Poland 107

14 Spain 91

15 Brazil 75

16 Korea 72

16 India 72

Rank

Journal Name IF

1 TISSUE ENGINEERING AND RE-GENERATIVE MEDICINE

3.15

2 MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH 2.369

3 EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

2.304

4 BMB REPORTS 2.276

5 JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

2.021

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Challenges

To increase global recognition through reference linking.

DOI(Digital Object Identifier)

To increase convenience of citation through open access.

OA(Open Access)

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A Success Story

From Dec. 1997 with 14 journals. Increased to 168 journals as of 2010. Raped increase of SCIE journals : 5 journals (2005) → 24 journals (2010)

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16815

DOI

OA

Korea Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE)

※ Source: KAMJE 2010

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Landing Page

DOI:URL

⑤ URL

③ DOI

④ DOI:URL

② DOI:URL deposit

UserPublisher

① DOI numbering

KISTI’s Approaches

DOI service model

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Open AccessRepository

CCL Free Access

PaymentGovernment

Library

Others

Support

Publisher User

Author

Open access service model

KISTI’s Approaches

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Landing Page

DOI:URL

⑤ URL

③ DOI

④ DOI:URL User

② DOI:URL deposit

Publisher

① DOI numbering

DOI and Open Access hybrid model

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Landing pageOA repository

DOI:URL

CCL

KOFST

Support

KISTI

Open Access

UserPublisher

KISTI’s Approaches

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OAProject

Global Ser-vice of S&T

Journals

DOIProject

DOI and Open Access Projects

KISTI’s Approaches

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Dec. 2007 The first DOI assignment was performed as a sponsoring member representing scholarly societies in Korea.

Jan. 2008 KoreaScience was opened to be a DOI response page for Korean S&T journals.

March, 2008 The first deposition of DOI XML was successfully per-formed.

June, 2009 Cited-by-linking sign-up & Multiple resolution services were started.

Dec. 2009 42 S&T journals from 30 academic societies are applied to be DOI journals.

May 2010 Sign-up of CrossCheck, a plagiarism screening system

Dec. 2010 92 S&T journals from 68 academic societies are applied to be DOI journals.

Brief History of KISTI’s DOI Service

KISTI’s Approaches

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http://koreascience.kr

KoreaScience, the DOI landing page

KISTI’s Approaches

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• No. of DOI Journals: 92• No. of DOI XML deposition: 46,696

Year Society Journal Assigned DOIs Deposited DOIs

2007 8 14 106 0

2008 5 7 2,920 1,480

2009 15 21 3,556 4,537

2010 41 50 44,478 40,679

Total 68 92 51,060 46,696

Results of KISTI’s DOI Service

KISTI’s Approaches

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November 2009- Total cited papers: 257- Max. citation per paper: 6

January 2010- Total cited papers: 471- Max. citation per paper: 8

Results of KISTI’s DOI Service

KISTI’s Approaches

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OAK

OAK Gover-nance

Development and Spread of Repositories

XML Implementation of Open Access Jour-nals

Open Access Contents Ser-vice

Cooperation and Promo-tion

Overview of Open Access Korea Project

KISTI’s Approaches

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1 2XML 워크벤치 3Journal Pub. 3.0 DTDJournal Pub. 3.0 DTD XML WorkbenchXML Workbench XML Creation/ValidationXML Creation/Validation

XML Implementation of OA Journals

KISTI’s Approaches

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Concluding Remarks

• DOI and open access give an opportunity for internationalizing Korean scholarly journals.

• KISTI will keep continue to activate the DOI service and open access journals in Korea.

• The cooperation of Korean journal publishers is critical to DOI and open access projects of KISTI.

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Thanks.