SUNScholar/Repository Website Metrics

Suggestions from the webometrics ranking editors

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All the scientific production, formal and informal, draft or definitive, published or unpublished, should be available from a unique web site.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

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://uir.unisa.ac.za
• http://ir.dut.ac.za
• http://ir.polytechnic.edu.na
• http://dar.aucegypt.edu
• http://www.ubrisa.ub.bw

DSpace Google Setup

Google Scholar

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Ensuring+your+instance+is+indexed
• http://roar.eprints.org/help/google_scholar.html
• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC18/Google+Scholar+Metadata+Mappings
• http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/dspace/docs/1.7.2/Google%20Scholar%20Metadata%20Mappings.html

Google Analytics

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

Rebuild the DSpace webapps using the custom rebuild script.

Google Sitemap

First, 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

Directories

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