SUNScholar/Web Analytics

This procedure assumes that you have used the three step process to install DSpace.

First, please read the draft digital preservation policy regarding electronic citation management.

DSpace Google Setup

• http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/dspace/docs/1.7.2/Google%20Scholar%20Metadata%20Mappings.html
• http://roar.eprints.org/help/google_scholar.html
• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Ensuring+your+instance+is+indexed

Analytics

Open your main Dspace config file and look for the xmlui.google.analytics.key setting. Enter your google analytics key. Then rebuild Dspace.

Sitemap

Frist, edit the DSpace config file and setup sitemaps as follows.

#### Sitemap settings #####
# the directory where the generated sitemaps are stored
sitemap.dir = ${dspace.dir}/sitemaps

#
# Comma-separated list of search engine URLs to 'ping' when a new Sitemap has
# been created.  Include everything except the Sitemap URL itself (which will
# be URL-encoded and appended to form the actual URL 'pinged').
#
#sitemap.engineurls = http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://scholar.sun.ac.za/htmlmap

# Add this to the above parameter if you have an application ID with Yahoo
# (Replace REPLACE_ME with your application ID)
# http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=REPLACE_ME&url=
#
# No known Sitemap 'ping' URL for MSN/Live search

Second, go to the Google Webmasters page and create an account. When asked to submit a sitemap use htmlmap as the sitemap URL. After the correct setup, you can view your own sitemaps by pointing your browser to:

http://%my-repository-hostname%/htmlmap

For example you can view SUNScholar sitemaps by clicking on the link below.

http://scholar.sun.ac.za/htmlmap

Help

• http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/ch05.html#N142ED
• http://www.dspace.org/1_5_2Documentation/ch03.html#N10B41

Suggestions from the webometrics ranking editors

All the scientific production, formal and informal, draft or definitive, published or unpublished, should be available from a unique web site.

See: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Best_Practices

Each institution should choose a unique institutional domain that can be used by all the websites of the institution.

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.

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

Repositories consist of full text papers, not bibliographic records. That means that the link to the full text file should be clearly marked in the web page of each record. Some repository designs make it difficult to locate such links.

For scientists it is important that the link to the full text would be easily citable. Therefore the following should be avoided in all situations:

Very long URLs

The Web is a hypertextual corpus with links connecting pages. If your contents are not known (bad design, limited information, or minority language), the size is scarce or they have low quality, the site probably will receive few links from other sites.

Measuring and classifying the links from others can be insightful. You should expect links from your “natural” partners: Institutions from your locality or region, web directories from similar organisations, portals covering your topics, colleagues or partners personal pages. Your pages should make an impact in your common language community.

Search engine friendly designs

Avoid cumbersome navigation menus based on Flash, Java or JavaScript that can block the robot access. Deep nested directories or complex interlinking can block robots too.

Databases and even highly dynamic pages can be invisible for some search engines, so use directories or static pages instead or as an option.

Rankings

Check the academic rankings

• http://www.arwu.org
• http://www.webometrics.info
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings
• http://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings

OAI-PMH

1. Register your site here: http://www.openarchives.org/Register/ValidateSite
2. Check first here: http://re.cs.uct.ac.za

The OAI BASE URL's for Stellenbosch University are:

• http://scholar.sun.ac.za/oai/request
• http://etd.sun.ac.za/oai/request

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