SUNScholar/Webometrics
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Contents
Introduction
See: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Best_Practices
All the scientific production, formal and informal, draft or definitive, published or unpublished, should be available from a unique web site. The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address:
http://repository.university.country
- It is very important to avoid changing the institutional domain as it can generate confusion and it has a devastating effect on the visibility values.
- Avoid cumbersome navigation menus based on Flash, Java or JavaScript that can block the robot access.
- For scientists it is important that the link to the full text would be easily citable.
- Therefore Very Long URLs should be avoided in all situations.
Ranking
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking
Good examples of repositories with friendly persistent URL's as per webometrics best practices
- http://scholar.sun.ac.za
- http://repository.up.ac.za
- http://repository.uwc.ac.za
- http://repository.unam.na
- http://makir.mak.ac.ug
- http://uir.unisa.ac.za
- http://ir.dut.ac.za
- http://ir.polytechnic.edu.na
- http://dar.aucegypt.edu
- http://www.ubrisa.ub.bw
- http://alair.ala.org
