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This study aimed to analyze the problems of the current School Library Promotion Act, focusing on the works of school libraries and the staffing, allocation criteria, and scope of duties of librarian teachers, and to propose revision plans of School Library Promotion Act. To this end, relevant laws and literature were analyzed, and directions for legal amendments and specific amendment proposals were presented. The main research results are as follows: First, school libraries were redefined based on the library service in the Library Act and the teaching-learning in the School Library Promotion Act. Second, overlapping content among the school library duties stipulated in the Library Act was deleted, and matters concerning the development and provision of education, culture, information, and leisure programs were added. Third, in addition to the common duties of librarians and librarian teachers, matters corresponding to the instructional role of librarian teachers were additionally presented.

For unverified papers deposited as preprints, users must independently judge the reliability and accuracy of the research content. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether the influence of the officially published version of the paper can be predicted in advance using various usage indicators of preprints. In addition, we analyzed whether, despite being an unverified, unpublished preprint, it was being spread socially through media reports and cited in academic papers. Total of 460 papers were collected and analyzed, including 288 papers initially archived as preprints in the medRxiv health informatics field and 172 post-publication versions of the papers. As a result, first, it was confirmed that the initial interest in research results published as a preprint was related to the number of citations in the post-publication version. It was analyzed that using the usage indicators accumulated over the first six months could predict the influence that may appear in future post-publication versions at around 40%(β = 0.409 p < 0.01), helping users to select research results. Second, it was analyzed that unpublished preprints were also spreading socially and being cited in academic papers. In addition, it was analyzed that it is being actively cited not only in other preprints but also in excellent academic journals with a high impact factor.

This study aimed to investigate promising research areas in the field of social science by exploring the possibility of employing altmetrics to serve the purpose. To facilitate the research, five analytical methods were conducted: 1) topic modeling to derive research topics, 2) PCA to extract common features of bibliometric indicators and altmetrics indicators, 3) cross-correlation analysis and 4) regression analysis to identify time differences between bibliometric and altmetrics indicators, and define their relation, and 5) correlation analysis to finalize emerging research topics. The findings of the study revealed that the captures, among the altmetrics indicators, can be used as a leading indicator of the number of articles, authors, usages, and it can contribute to identifying emerging research topics two to three years earlier. This study has significance as it identified the applicability of altmetrics in overcoming the limitation of time lag that occurs in citation and keyword-based indicators used in previous studies, and proved it to be an indicator to ensure immediacy in the detection of emerging research topics. It also demonstrates the methodological extensibility for predicting emerging research topics by using PCA and provides the foundation for designing detection models for emerging research topics in the future.