The PDF presentations from our recent webinar, 'Landscape of #OpenAccess Transition in Asian Countries' (https://mastodon.social/@hannaSH/113032522942276520), on OA in #Korea and #Japan can be downloaded here:
https://www.kesli.or.kr/web/popSelectEventDetailView.do?eventno=490#

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Only 29.45% of #Korean academic #journals apply #creativecommons licenses, primarily from the Medicine and Pharmacy fields. Among these, the NonCommercial (NC) licenses – CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND – are the most frequently used.

Source: Proceedings of the 31st Conference of Korean Society for Information Management (https://kosim.jams.or.kr/) 2024, presentation by Hyun Ji #KISTI

#Korea #OpenAccess

As of 14 February 2024, 45% of all Korean academic journals indexed in the #KCI #Korea Journal Database are #OpenAccess #journals. However, publications of these OA journals are generally not accompanied by open licenses like #creativecommons

Source: #KISTI

New #KISTI report analysed papers published in 2018-2021 by researchers from the 35 largest #Korean institutions in hybrid journals of the 9 largest global publishers.

Average annual share of #OpenAccess papers (funded via individual #APC) was 4.8%, 95.2% remained closed. Average annual APC costs were about $2.7 million, subscription costs - around $46.8 million annually.

The report concluded that the most cost-effective solution would be a Read and Publish agreement
https://shorturl.at/QkB1v

Interview with members of #Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (#KISTI)'s Research Data Sharing Centre https://blog.naver.com/withkisti/223459589590

In March 2024, KISTI's DataON, a national #researchdata platform that supports the entire research data cycle and serves as a national data repository, obtained the #CoreTrustSeal certification, a first in Korea. The interview discusses the challenging experience of the certification procedure and the implications of this certification.

The #AI Research Group at the #Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (#KISTI) plans to release its generative LLM ‘KONI’, which specialises in #scienceandtechnology (S&T) data, as #opensource in July.

Efforts are underway to jointly develop the model with various public organisations that collect and disseminate S&T information, such as the Korea Patent Information Institute, KAOS Foundation, National Assembly Library.

https://www.kisti.re.kr/media/detailList/43?keyword=Interview

English backgrounds of 41 #NorthKorea's academic #journals (https://www.38north.org/resources/2023/03/journals/dprk-st-journals/) provide insights into the country’s S&T trends and peculiar features of domestic journals/papers. For ex., research papers show author names but often lack affiliation, regime messages appear throughout the journal.

Full-text digitized papers of these journals are available in the #SouthKorean NK TECH database operated by #KISTI http://203.250.213.162/nk_tech/journal/journal_more.jsp.

As part of the UN #STI Forum Event to be held on 10 May 2024, #UNESCO will present a report featuring tools helping to strengthen STI policy implementation https://shorturl.at/bdsyJ

The report covers the #Korea’s NTIS platform https://www.ntis.go.kr/ThMain.do, an #OpenScience #infrastructure operated by #KISTI. It offers integrated access to open knowledge & information related to national R&D projects. All project-related information and outputs are interconnected by the project number as a local #PID.

Following a signing ceremony at #APAN55, the Asiapacific-Europe Ring (#AER) is delighted to welcome the 🇰🇷 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information #KISTI as a new member 🤝

KISTI's entrance in the #AER alongside AARNet, GÉANT, HARNET, KAUST, NICT, NII, NORDUnet, SingAREN, SURF, and TEIN*CC, marks a milestone in building a more resilient, high-speed #network services delivery system to benefit researchers globally

🔗 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/15/expansion-of-the-asiapacific-europe-ring-aer-with-new-member-korea-institute-of-science-and-technology-information-kisti