SUNScholar/Repository Website Metrics

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All the scientific production, formal and informal, draft or definitive, published or unpublished, should be available from a unique web site.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

[[SUNScholar/Google|Google Settings

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

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