SUNScholar/Webometrics

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All the scientific production, formal and informal, draft or definitive, published or unpublished, should be available from a unique web site.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

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

Domain Name Help

• http://mashable.com/2013/11/17/domain-name-research-tools

Ranking

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking

Blogs

• http://openuct.uct.ac.za/blog/university-rankings-repositories-visibility-and-openness