1. Research Information Service System (RISS)
June 2005
Korea Education & Research Information Service

2. Table of Contents I. Background: RISS II. Chronology III. Statistics
IV. Major Services
V. KERIS-dCollection

3. RISS Homepage

4. I. Background Nation’s Competitiveness depends on
Competitiveness in R&D Competitive Power of Universities,
Libraries & Information Centers
※ SCI World Ranking in 2003 : 14 (2002) ⇒ 14(2003 / 17,785 articles)
Need to Share resources that Universities hold
Differences in research capabilities among universities
Gaps in information availability among universities and libraries

5. I. Background – Cont.
Provide various web-based research information services for researchers, professors, students, and other academic user groups
Develop a centralized information retrieval system embracing information on books, journal articles, dissertations, and overseas research information service
Provide ILL(Inter-Library Loan) Service
Cooperative efforts to facilitate resource sharing among libraries (shared cataloging)

6. II. Chronology Dec.1996: Korea Research Information Center established
May. 1998: RISS (Research Information Service System) was launched and Cooperative Cataloging Service began with 7 Lib members university libraries.
Jan. 1999: KMEC & KRIC were consolidated into KERIS by “Korea Education & Research Information Service Act”
Mar. 2001: KERIS was assigned as ‘National Education and Research Information Center’ by the Ministry of Information and Communication

7. II. Chronology – Cont.
Nov. 2002: Sharing bibliographic data of NII (National Institute for Informatics, Japan) and KERIS
Jan. 2003: Sharing bibliographic data of National Library of Korea – Union Catalog of 384 public libraries and KERIS
Jun. 2003: Partnership with Korea Medical Library Association to build Medical Library Information System (MEDLIS)
Nov. 2003: Membership extended to all 4-year universities in Korea (Total of 200 universities)

8. Under-graduate Students
III. Statistics
Individual Membership (As of Apr. 2005)
Individual Members
Member Status
(in 1,000s of number)
Year
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005.4
Total No. 44
102
200
280
460
567
667
705
(in 1,000s of number)
User Group
Faculty
Graduate Students
Under-graduate Students
Researchers
Proportion 42
183
268 21

9. III. Statistics – Cont. Institutional Members (As of Apr. 2005)
※ 100% of 4-year universities registered (2003.8)
Year
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005.4
No. of Libraries
148
157
204
306
366
425
460
467
Library Types
Special/Research Libraries (20%)
Type
Total No.
Univ. Libraries
377
Special/
Research Libraries 90
Total
467
University Libraries (80%)

10. III. Statistics – Cont. Bibliographic data added : 40,000/month
(As of Apr. 2005)
Bibliographic data added : 40,000/month
Fulltext Downloaded : 418,000/month
Search & Retrieve: 973,000/month

11. IV. Major Services 1. Union Catalog 2. Inter Library Loan Service
3. Fulltext Service
4. Foreign Databases
5. Training & Other Supports

12. IV. Major Services Services Statistics Additional Info.
(As of Apr. 2005)
Services
Statistics
Additional Info.
Union Catalog Service
7 million bibliographic data
32 million holdings
Total No. of Member Libraries: 467
Inter-Library Loan
- 6,670 requests/month
Total No. of Member Libraries: 399
Full-text Service
850,000 articles published in Korea
Participating Inst.: 812
300,000 Theses & dissertations
Participating Lib.: 127
eBook 26,100 volumes
NetLibrary, Safari
Commercial Databases
12 DB services (OCLC FS etc.)
National Academic Licenses
76 DB consortia (SciFinder etc.)
Co-purchasing Consortia

13. 1. Union Catalog System Configuration External KERIS Web Search
Lib. System
Client Program
(External)
(KERIS)
Z Client
Z Client
Z Gateway
Z39.50 Server
Union Databases
Bibliography
Holdings
Reference DB

14. 1. Union Catalog – Cont. Statistics by Data Types Data Format
KORMARC for Korean Materials (43% out of total Record)
MARC21 for Western Resources (mainly from LC)
(As of Apr. 2005)
Books
5,800,000
Serials
130,000
Theses & Dissertations
850,000
Non-traditional Materials
250,000
Total
7,030,000

15. 1. Union Catalog – Cont. Code System Cataloging Rules
Unicode by Dec. 2005
Cataloging Rules
KCR for KORMARC, AACR2 for MARC21
Chinese Materials: Wades-Giles system
Usage Statistics of Shared Cataloging System
# of institutions accessed
323/mon
Simultaneous User (Institution)
130
Search Hit
531,800/mon
Download Record
72,532/mon
Upload Record
206,305/mon

16. 2. Inter Library Loan (ILL) Service
Institutional Membership
(As of Apr. 2005)
Year
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
Number
109
243
316
359
392
399
Statistics
(As of Apr. 2005)
Period
Request
Delivery Method (days)
Charge per page
2005
Jan – Apr
6,670/month
Reg. Postal Service
(5 days)
70 won
Express Mail (4 days)
Fax (1.5 days)
400 won
(2 days)
200 won

17. 2. ILL Service - Cont. Types of ILL (DDS) System
Domestic Materials: KERIS ILL(DDS)
Foreign Materials: Infotrieve Service & OCLC ILL
b/w KERIS & NII: mediated by an Agent (KERIS)

18. 2. ILL Service - Workflow KERIS Library A Library B (request)
Message Flow
Document
9. Photocopied Document
Researcher
Union Cat DB
1. Search/Request
2. Request for Approval
Library A
(request)
KERIS
Library B
(provide)
3. Approval
Exchange of Message
4. Request
5. Response (Yes)
Arrival
7. Shipping Report
Shipping
8. Arrival Report
Invoice
Invoice
6. Document Shipping(Post/FAX/Ariel)

19. 2. ILL Process b/w NII and KERIS

20. Performing Federated Search

21. E-Learning
Typing Search Term

22. Search Results

23. Detailed Biblio. Information

24. Request for Fulltext

25. 3. FullText Service - Articles
Provide meta search capability & fulltext service
(As of Apr. 2005)
Ownership
Type
No. of data
KERIS Own
Funded by the Ministry of Information and Communication
350,000
Commercial Vendors (Korean)
Contract between KERIS and external database vendors
500,000
Total
850,000

26. Performing Article Search

27. Typing Search Term

28. Search Results

29. Viewing Fulltext

30. 3. FullText Service – Theses & Dissertations
(As of Apr. 2005)
Type
No. of data
Thesis & Dissertation (Korea)
280,000
Dissertations produced by Korean Students Abroad
22,000
Foreign Dissertations
57,000
Total
359,000

31. Performing Search of Dissertations

32. Typing Search Term
education competency

33. Search Results

34. Ordering Fulltext

35. Viewing Fulltext

36. 4. Foreign Databases
National Academic Licenses
Facilitate and Support R&D Practices in universities
Total of 12 databases purchased with Academic Licenses
Organizing Consortia to purchase databases
Participating libraries: 147 (as of 2005)
Organizing 76 databases Consortia
Building a buying power

37. 4. Foreign Databases – Cont.
Co-Purchasing Consortia
National Academic Licenses
International Resources
International Resources
Web DB
Online
journals
eBook
Web DB
Online
journals
eBook
Not Available
Service Available
Service Available
KERIS
Non-Participating Lib
Service Available …
Universities in Korea …
Participating Lib.
KERIS
Non-participating Lib.
KERIS
Participating Lib.
Expected Benefit
Expected Benefit
Participating
Participating
90 (22%)
Non-Participating
142 (36%)
Non-Participating
237 (64%)
Lib.: 310 (78%)
Availability: only Participating Libraries
Availability: All universities

38. 5. Training & Other Activities
Webboard & Online Discussion Groups
Participants: 80% of university librarians
Subjects: Collection Development & Serials, Cataloging, ILL, Reference & Circulation Services, Technical Services
Annual Workshops for each subjects
Training Sessions for librarianship: 6 ~8/yr
Annual Conference for University Libraries
Participants: All Public & Private University libraries
※ more than 50% of all 4-year university libraries attend
2005 Conference will be held in June, 2005.

39. 5. Training & Other Activities
Online Syllabus Service
Archiving online syllabi from universities worldwide
Research Activities
Standardization Effort on Resource Sharing
Research on the National Library Policy
Research on the development of e-Learning Policies in Higher Education
Research Support for Resource Sharing issues such as Copyright, Intellectual Freedom, etc
Support for Educational Policy Initiatives
Built a system called “KERIC” to provide meta search of research outputs of 5 major Educational Institutions and foreign resources of WorldBank, OECD, and The Chronicle

40. KERIC

41. Performing Search of Educational Materials

42. Typing Search Term
Lifelong Learning

43. Search Results

44. Viewing Fulltext

45. V. KERIS - dCollection dCollection Current Status
stands for Digital Collection of Scholarly output
that enables Institutional Repository and Inter-IR resource sharing
Current Status
(As of Apr. 2005)
Year
2003
2004
2005
# of Institutions 4 16 20
Total 40

46. V. KERIS-dCollection – Cont.
(Research Information Service System)
Duplication Check
RISS Service
RISS Union DB
renewal
series
report
Book
Thesis
transfer
RISS Converter
User
Integrated Search
Management System
statistics
dCollection
Central DB
Harvest Analyzer
Full-text
Harvest
Internal Search
Scheduler
Service Provider
Local Search
OAI-PMH
Digital object
Repository
System Diagram
Online Submission
system
Data Provider
dCollection Central System
Local Metadata DB
Management System
OAI-PMH : Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
PDF Converter
dCollection Local System

47. Discussion Points Union Catalog ILL (DDS) Contents Sharing
Journals & Articles, Theses & Dissertations
Collaborative Activities

48. Discussion Points Union Catalog ILL (DDS) Statistics: Chinese & Korean
Data Format and Code System
Resource Sharing Methods: Search and Retrieve
Systematic interconnectivity of Resources with ILL service
ILL (DDS)
General Statistics
Standard Protocols
Possible workflow of ILL between members of CALIS and KERIS

49. Discussion Points Contents Sharing: Journals & Articles
General Statistic and usage information of Journals and Articles
Contents Sharing : Theses & Dissertations
Statistics including the total annual amount of theses & dissertations produced
Status and the future plans of ETD in both countries
Collaborative Activities
International Seminars or conference
Organizing and run committees to facilitate CALIS-KERIS resource sharing activities

50. Future Plans Establishing a Stable Cooperation Next Meeting Schedules
Agreement between CALIS & KERIS
Arrange meetings of both CALIS and KERIS in a regular basis
Next Meeting Schedules
Possible date and place
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