Research Project to Develop an English Educational Research Database

在这一发展研究中，我们试图建立一个英文数据库，收录了1977年至1987年间在日本发表的教育研究论文，这些论文发表在日本的国立高校和教育研究学术协会中。希望本研究能有助于满足世界对日本教育信息的需求。这种关于注释书目的数据库以前从未有过。之前的大部分作品都局限于书籍。即使是最近的关于教育研究数据库的系统工作（使用日语）也是在大约十年前完成的。因此，这是目前在教育领域可获得的同类报告中最新的一份。为了使此数据库与世界研究界相媲美，ERIC描述符在此数据库中尽可能多地使用，因为ERIC似乎已经达到了世界范围的标准地位。当很难从ERIC同义词典中找到合适的关键字时，我们添加了自己的关键字。本研究数据库收录的论文共计2680篇，主要来源于全国高校和学术团体发表的研究公报。总共包括35所大学。建立数据库的大部分工作是为每篇研究论文寻找合适的关键词。为了完成这项任务，聘请了两位美国学者。他们阅读了所有的论文并提出了关键词。然而，最终的选择是由作者做出的。为了对关键词做出最终的判断，我们查阅了ERIC同义词典，并尽可能地使用与ERIC相同的关键词表达。当难以用ERIC描述符表达论文内容时，我们使用其他词语。

In this is developmental research we have tried to establish an English database for educational research papers published in Japan during the past ten years from 1977 to 1987 in national colleges and universities and academic associations of educational research. It is expected that this research will contribute to the worldwide demands for information about education in Japan. This kind of database on annotated bibliography has never been available before. Most of the preceding works have been restricted to books. Even the most recent systematic work regarding educational research database (using Japanese) was made about a decade ago. Therefore, this is the most current report available of its kind in the field of education.In an attempt to make this comparable to the research community of the world, the ERIC descriptors are used in this database as much as possible for the ERIC seem to have achieved a worldwide standard status. When it was difficult to find a proper key word from the ERIC Thesaurus, we added our own. The papers collected in this research database amounts to 2,680 which are collected from the research bulletins published by national universities and academic associations. In total thirty-five universities are included.The largest part of the work for constructing a database was occupied by the endeavor of finding proper key words for each research paper. For this task, two American scholars were employed. They read all of the papers and suggested key words. However, the final selection was made by the author. In order to reach the final judgment with regard to key words we consulted the ERIC Thesaurus and tried to employ, as much as possible, the same key word expressions as the ERIC. When it was difficult to express the contents of the paper with the ERIC descriptors we used other words.