Complete Overhaul of Kyobo Bookstore's Skolla Academic Paper Site

[Asia Economy Reporter Seomideum] Kyobo Book Centre announced on the 8th that the academic resource service ‘Schola,’ operated in collaboration with Hakjisa, has been completely revamped.

As part of the Digital Transformation strategy, the revamped Schola improved UI/UX focusing on user convenience by analyzing the experiences, usage methods, and patterns of paper users. The popular papers, previously displayed in 6 rows and 2 columns, have been changed to a card format with 2 rows and 4 columns, and keyword searches can now be checked on the main page without moving to another page.

The newly introduced feature, ‘Find Academic Societies Related to My Major,’ allows university students using the paper service for the first time to easily find and use papers in related fields. The site has been redesigned as a responsive web, and by adopting the MSA (MicroService Architecture) method, service stability has been improved. Search speed and paper search functions have also been enhanced through the advancement of search algorithms and engines.

Academic societies providing papers can check the usage history of the papers they provided, making it easy to analyze usage increase trends and view the status of copyright fees generated. A mail sending template sent to society members when publications are released is also provided as a convenience feature.

As of June 2022, Schola holds exclusive usage rights for 600,000 domestic papers from 882 institutions and 1,430 publications, with 60% being KCI-registered and candidate journals. In 2019, it was the first domestic academic paper service selected for the ‘KERIS University License Project,’ supported by the Ministry of Education and conducted by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), and has been providing the service since then.

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