Journal of Korean Medical Library Association
The Korean Medical Library Association
Article

Development of Medical Journal Publication in Korea

LeeChoon Shil1
1Graduate Library School, University of Chicago

ⓒ Copyright 1993 The Korean Medical Library Association. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jun 30, 1993

Abatract

In the first part of the present paper, medical journals which had been or are published in Korea were examined by period in order to show the development of medical journal publication in Korea and to capture the characteristics that might have influenced medical journals currently published in Korea. In the second part, the characteristics of the scholarly medical journals currently published in Korea, based on 125 journals listed in the Appendix, are analyzed and discussed.