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All the scientific production, formal and informal, draft or definitive, published or unpublished, should be available from a unique web site.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

Robots

See below for an example robots.txt file.

User-agent: *
# Disable access to Discovery search and filters
Disallow: /discover
Disallow: /search-filter
 
# This should be the FULL URL to your HTML Sitemap. 
# Make sure to replace "[dspace.url]" with the value of your 'dspace.url' setting in your dspace.cfg file.
Sitemap: http://[dspace.url]/htmlmap
 
# If you have configured DSpace (Solr-based) Statistics to be publicly accessible,
# then you likely do not want this content to be indexed
# Disallow: /displaystats
 
# Uncomment the following line ONLY if sitemaps.org or HTML sitemaps are used
# and you have verified that your site is being indexed correctly.
# Disallow: /browse
 
# You also may wish to disallow access to the following paths, in order
# to stop web spiders from accessing user-based content:
# Disallow: /advanced-search
# Disallow: /contact
# Disallow: /feedback
# Disallow: /forgot
# Disallow: /login
# Disallow: /register
# Disallow: /search

HTML Metadata

If you have heavily customized your metadata fields away from Dublin Core, you can modify the crosswalk that generates these elements by modifying:

[dspace]/config/crosswalks/xhtml-head-item.properties.

If you have heavily customized your metadata fields, or wish to change the default "mappings" to these Highwire Press tags, they are configurable in:

[dspace]/config/crosswalks/google-metadata.properties

Directories

• http://repositories.webometrics.info
• http://roar.eprints.org
• http://www.opendoar.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

References

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=34642415
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC18/Configuration#Configuration-SitemapSettings
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC17/Configuration#Configuration-SitemapSettings
• http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/ch05.html#N142ED
• http://www.dspace.org/1_5_2Documentation/ch03.html#N10B41

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