| Abstract: | 電子期刊(Electronic Journals)拜電腦科技與網際網路之賜，自1970年代出現，在1990年代興起，愈來愈受到使用者喜愛，帶給出版社、代理商與資料庫供應商無限商機。另一方面，電子期刊大量引進學術圖書館並發生莫大的衝擊，以美國Drexel University Library為例，該館發展電子館藏，自2002年開始減少訂購紙本期刊，而大量增訂電子期刊。鑑於電子期刊受到使用者喜愛，Peter Boyce等人研究電子期刊使用與閱讀行為，發現科學家大量閱讀紙本期刊、電子期刊、預印本網站、全文資料庫，並且期刊閱讀使用行為逐年改變。電子期刊在我國近年也受到學者專家重視，相關研究也開始活躍，但多著重在電子期刊學術傳播與電子出版、或是電子期刊館藏發展與使用評鑑，較缺乏從學者專家的資訊需求與使用閱讀行為探討。本研究旨在以學術電子傳播角度探討社會科學家使用與閱讀電子期刊行為。電子期刊隨著網際網路興起，已形成學術電子傳播新模式，並吸引科學家逐漸使用電子期刊現象。電子期刊對學者的資訊尋求使用行為、寫作與引用文獻，出版社與資料庫彙集代理商的出版與資料庫製作，以及圖書館館藏建設均發生重大影響。電子期刊的使用研究將有助於建構學術電子傳播新模式，支持電子期刊評鑑；協助出版社與代理商的出版與產製資料庫系統，以及幫助圖書館館藏發展。目前歐美對於科技醫學學者使用電子期刊的研究已有豐富成果，但缺乏對社會科學家電子期刊使用的研究。我國尤其缺乏學者電子期刊使用研究，在電子期刊系統大量開發之際，更需要長期研究。因此，本研究將從學術電子傳播角度探討我國社會科學家使用與閱讀電子期刊行為，並希望建立長期研究模式。探討學術電子傳播是否影響我國社會科學學者期刊使用行為？以及其電子期刊使用閱讀型態與科學家及外國研究有無差異？本計劃研究目的如次：(1)探討我國社會科學家學術電子傳播模式。(2)研究電子期刊對我國社會科學學者工作任務的重要性。(3)研究我國社會科學學者電子期刊查詢與閱讀使用行為。(4)研究我國社會科學學者論文寫作與資訊需求。(5)研究圖書館支援社會科學學者電子期刊使用程度。(6)比較我國社會科學學者電子期刊使用與閱讀型態與科學家及他國研究之差異。研究方法包括文獻探討法、問卷調查法、深度訪談與關鍵事件法。
As information and communication technologies make progress, there are many e-journals provided by academic libraries. It also brings a lot of business opportunities to publishers, subscription agents, aggregators and e-journals management system vendors. Scholars, faculties and students are very much like e-journals because it is convenient to access full-text articles of e-journals from web. The new model of e-journals has been gradually developed. As the Drexel University Library studied e-journals, they found there were much difference between e-journals and paper journals, including information infrastructure, administration, technical services, public services, reserves, document delivery and information services. Since 2002, the Library had cancelled print journals and had changed to buy electronic journals. As electronic journals are heavily used by scientists, Peter Boyce studied on electronic journals use, they found scientists read many print journals, electronic journals, e-prints, full-text databases, and usage patterns of journals changed dramatically. In Taiwan, there were some studies on electronic journals publishing and evaluation. However, studies on electronic journals use of social scientists are seldom made. The research is a two-year project, and mainly studies on electronic journals use by social scientists from the viewpoints of scholarly communication. It has six goals as follows: A. To study scholarly electronic communication of social scientists model. B. To study the importance of electronic journals on tasks of social scientists in Taiwan. C. To study information seeking and reading of electronic journals of social scientists in Taiwan. D. To study academic writing and information needs of social scientists in Taiwan. E. To study how library collection support electronic journals usage of social scientists in Taiwan. F. To analyze and compare electronic journals usage and reading pattern of social scientists in Taiwan with those studies of scientists and of other nations. |
