과학기술 포털 사이트 Korea Science 오픈

 
 영문으로 된 한국 과학기술 포털 사이트인 Korea Science 가 오픈되었다.
글로벌 과학포털사이트인 WorldWideScience.org에도 추가되어 검색의 노출이 확대될 수 있는 교두보를 확보했다.

주요 컨텐츠를 살펴보면,

현재까지 50여개의 과학분야 학회에서 나온 66개 학회지의 5,000여건에 달하는 학술논문을 오픈 액세스 기반으로 제공하고 있다. 2008년 중반까지 80여개의 학회지로 컨텐츠를 확대 수록할 예정이라고 한다. 이외에도 과학기술 분야의 학회 및 협회 그리고 연구소들의 디렉토리를 제공한다.

About KoreaScience

 Goals 
 KoreaScience is a portal site about Korea’s scientific and technological information, which is designed to assist foreign researchers to access scientific and technological information in Korea
 
 In Order to Use 
 All that from searching to use of full-text could be used for free without log-in
After registering, you can use personalized functions, such as personal configuration setting and storage of search history and search query.

In KoreaScience
    - General users could conveniently search and use Korean scholarly articles in one place.
    - Librarians could use this site as an information source for science and technology about Korea
Book publishers and Web DB companies could use this site as a linking source for Korean scholarly articles
 
 
 Present Status 
 December. 2007 Present
Main DB is scholarly articles in the field of Korea science and technology.
KoreaScience is an open access electric journal site to offer fast and exact access to the articles published by Korean academic societies in the field of science and technology.
KoreaScience offers metadata, abstracts, electronic full texts, and external linking to electronic full texts of the references
    - 66 scientific journals from 50 of main academic societies in Korea
    - a total of 5,000 of scholarly articles and their abstract data and electronic full texts
    - DOI electronic full text linking approximately 300,000 references of scholarly articles
    - A Convenient register method and preference setting option
    - Easily-see and convenient tools
    - various convenience functions

Additional functions are as follows
This site
    - includes information source about academic societies, associations and research institutes, who are producers of scientific and technological information in       Korea
    - offers links to each academic societies, associations and research institutes,
    - offers hot news in the field of science and technology

 Future Directions 
 KoreaScience
    - Will increase service coverage until 80 scholarly journals in the first half 2008 and enlarge constantly.
    - Will ensure various types of service contents and provide systematic and well-organized service.
    - Will be a global hub for Korean scientific and technological information.