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Journal of Korean Medical Library Association
The Korean Medical Library Association

J Korean Med Libr Assoc 2014; 41(1):1-11

pISSN: 2383-8809

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69528/jkmla.2014.41.1.1

Article

국내 의학 정보원 현황

김나원1,*, 이인숙1
Report on the Characteristics of Korean Medical Databases
Na Won Kim1,*, In Sook Lee1
1연세대학교 의학도서관
1Yonsei University Medical Library, Seoul, Korea
*Corresponding author : Na Won Kim, Yonsei University Medical Library, 50-1, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea, Tel: 82-2-2228-2915, Fax: 82-2-365-3093, E-mail: nwkim@yuhs.ac

ⓒ Copyright 2014 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.

Received: Oct 15, 2014; Revised: Nov 20, 2014; Accepted: Dec 16, 2014

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Abatract

Purpose:

Medical science researchers use various electronic resources to search the information for resear ch and clinical treatment purposes. However, they often are faced with challenges including difficulties in selecting appropriate e-resources and limited accessibility to certain databases, especially in using Korea n medical electronic resources.

Methods:

Thus we conducted with the investigation and evaluation of Korean medical electronic resources (10 sites).

Results:

As the results we resolved these difficulties and supported to service for medical scientists. Sugges tions were proposed for service enhancement. At first, we investigated ten electronic resources that are serviced Korean medical articles. And then we evaluated the usability and search efficiency of five major sites among them. Only the contents of KMbase and KoreaMed provided specialized databases in the medic al subject. Differences were not significant in evaluation results including interface functions and services. Search efficiency was tested by searching 17 words selected from foreign medical resources (National Guid eline Clearinghouse, Medline-Plus, PubMed). So, differences in search results were not significant.

Conclusion:

It is necessary to build and share the controlled author index and add the auto mapping search function like PubMed. Furthermore, it should be linked and shared the full-text of academic associations sites and institutional repositories holdings.

Keywords: Medical database; Electronic resources; Medical resources; Korean medical databases