Webometric Ranking of Webometric Ranking of Institutional Repositories Institutional Repositories in India in India By Mr. Samir Kumar Jalal Asst. Librarian Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi
Jan 03, 2016
Webometric Ranking of Webometric Ranking of Institutional Repositories in Institutional Repositories in
IndiaIndia
By
Mr. Samir Kumar Jalal Asst. Librarian
Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi
Points to be DiscussedPoints to be Discussed
Institutional Repository (IR)Need of IRResearch QuestionsMethodologyResultsConclusion
Need of IRNeed of IR
To support Open Access Initiatives;
To encourage the web publication;
To archive institutional knowledge and make it available through intranet;
Need for Webometric Need for Webometric RankingRanking
To measure the global visibility and impact of scientific repositories;
To know the relative position of a particular IR;
To evaluate the present status of IR at the state level, national level and at the global level;
Research QuestionsResearch Questions
How does global visibility for institution’s scholarship measure?
Is it possible to find out the web presence of Indian institutional repositories?
How to develop the ranking system for Indian institutional repositories?
Is it possible to know highly used software in Indian institutional repositories?
MethodologyMethodology
Selection of Institutional Repositories
Collection of URLsSelection of Search EnginesCollection of DataChoice of Indicators for Ranking IR
Normalization of Data Calculation of Rank Index
Selection of Selection of IRsIRs
OpenDOAR: an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. There are 52 IRs . http://www.opendoar.org/
ROAR: 73 institutional repositories in India are listed under Registry of Open Access Repository. http://roar.eprints.org
Choice of IndicatorsChoice of IndicatorsIndicator SSymbol Descriptions Weights
Size S Total number of webpages 20%
Visibility V Number of inlinks 40%
Rich Files R Number of rich files as measured through (.pdf,.doc,.ps,.ppt,)
15%
Scholar Sc Google scholar during 2006-2010 i.e. last 5 years
15%
Number of
Records
Ri Total number of records till September 2011
5%
Duration D It is calculated on the basis of its existence on the web
5%
Normalization of Data
Based on each indicator, all the selected IRs are arranged in descending order of magnitude and assigned a rank for them.
Calculation of Rank Calculation of Rank IndexIndex
Index Value may be calculated as:
20%.S + 40%.V + 15%.R + 15%.Sc + 5%.Ri + 5%.D
Where, S= Size, V= Visibility, Sc= Google Scholar, Ri= Rich Files & D= Duration
ResultsResults
Web presence of IRs in IndiaTop Ten Indian IRs based on
WISER RankingTop Ten Indian IRs based on
Modified WISERTop five software used in
institutional repositories in IndiaChoice of Content
WISER= Web Indicators for Science Technology & Innovation (www.wiserweb.org)
Top Ten IRs in Top Ten IRs in IndiaIndia
Host Institute Domain Rank
IISc, Bangalore eprints.iisc.ernet.in 1
University of Mysore dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in 2
IGNOU egyankosh.ac.in 3
NISCAIR nopr.niscair.res.in 4
National Institute of Oceanography drs.nio.org 5
Indian Institute of Astrophysics prints.iiap.res.in 6
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute eprints.cmfri.org.in7
NIT, Rourkela dspace.nitrkl.ac.in 8
Bibliographic Informatics Division, NIC openmed.nic.in9
Thapar University dspace.thapar.edu 10
Top Five IR SoftwareTop Five IR Software
Rank Software Frequency %1 Dspace 789 46.942 E-Print 326 19.39
3Digital Commons
86 5.12
4 dLibra 56 3.335 OPUS 55 3.276 Others* 369 21.95
Total 1681
ConclusionConclusionTo maximize the visibility of
institution’s research outputs.
The authors’ visibility increases if their research outputs are available through open access institutional repositories.
Institutional visibility increases resulting into an increase in world rank of the institutes.
IR may be at global level, institutional level and departmental level.