섬 연구의 특수성과 향후 발전방향 - 한국도서연구지의 발행과정과 관련하여-

Abstract

The aim of this study is to upgrade the academic level of the Journal of Korean Island considering the estimation basis made by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). It is known that the islands basically share special characteristics such as surrounding seas, separation, loneliness, and so on. Therefore in the case of field research on islands, accomplishment cannot be obtained without endurance or pain. The Korean Association of Island has studied many islands on various subjects since the 1989, and published the Journal of Korean Island thirty-one times up till August 31, 2010. We should endow value on the research of island in accordance with the current background of ocean-oriented development. Ocean-oriented development involves utilizing the marine material as a food, the position of maritime power in our country, the rise of new function for island in view of social, cultural, economic situations, and so forth. Particular situations for the study can be pointed out as follows: the current background of ocean-oriented development, the difficulty of approach to islands, the research under the bad condition of lodging, the specific issue for the result of island research, synthetical studies between many fields, and so forth. We will propose eight viewpoints considering the directions of development on island study in the future following; the distribution of whole country in contributions, the regional equilibrium in ratio of article publication, the expansion in volume of the Journal of Korean Island per year, the publication of journal in regular time, the improvement of regional distribution for article investigator, the accuracy & perfection on the information of reference, and the inducement of new momentum for island research.