A Study of How Journal Collections Support Faculty Research at the College of Life and Resource Sciences of National Taiwan Ocean University

• Main Author: 李淑娟
• Other Authors: Chao-chen Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18884661149991681267

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 93 === The study describes how the journal collections support faculty research at the College of Life and Resource Sciences of National Taiwan Ocean University through the methods of citation analysis and interviews. The four objectives of this study are : 1. To identify the features of journal citations used by faculty at the College of Life and Resource Sciences of NTOU. 2. To investigate how the library journal collections support faculty research at the College of Life and Resource Sciences of NTOU. 3. To come up the core journal lists through citation analysis. And, the journal list will be an important reference to build NTOU library collection. 4. To study the journal information needs and information seeking behavior of the faculty at the College of Life and Resource Sciences of NTOU. 340 articles, published from year 2002 to 2004, are analyzed; this does not include articles without references. An E-Resource Access & Management federated system licensed by the NTOU is used to retrieve e-journals that support faculty research; for the printed collection, the NTOU Library’s WEBOPAC is used. Journals that are within the library collection, be it in printed or electronic version, but cannot be retrieved via the above two channels are not considered as the library collection. The result of the study reveals that: 1.) In average, the number of cited references of each journal article is 31.56; 2) The majority of citations is from periodicals (84.75%); 3) Most of the cited periodicals were published after 1998.; 4) Total of the journal citations are from 1,851 periodicals, among those, 73 are core periodicals that are cited 2,996 times in total.; 5) The overall results indicate that 60.72 percent of the journal articles are available in the NTOU Library under exact match and 83.41% under partial match. Besides, on the top 10 basis, library can provide 85.73% of the required materials under exact match and 99.19% of the required materials under partial match.;6) The majority of results by two research methods are matched.