[Irtalk] SUNScholar DSpace Version 1.7

Tue Dec 13 15:19:13 SAST 2011

Setting up the site map properly helped us. 

Also see: http://repositories.webometrics.info/best_practices.html 
Decalogue of good practices in institutional web positioning

Currently Webometrics ranks it according to:

Size (S). Number of pages recovered from the following large engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Visibility (V). The total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo Site Explorer.

Rich Files (R). Files in formats like Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), MS Word (doc), MS Powerpoint and PostScript (.ps) extracted from Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Scholar (Sc). Using Google Scholar database we calculate the mean of the normalised total number of papers and those (recent papers) published between 2006 and 2010.

For  University rankings (we believe the visibility of the research output of the Univ also has an impact on its ranking):

Times Higher Education World University Rankings (powered by Thompson Reuters)
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/ 

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings

Shanghai List
http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2011.html

and many others ....

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From: Hilton Gibson [hilton.gibson at gmail.com]
Sent: 13 December 2011 12:41 PM
To: Swanepoel, Barrie
Cc: Smith, Ina <ismith at sun.ac.za>; irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
Subject: Re: [Irtalk] SUNScholar DSpace Version 1.7

Hi Barrie

We basically implemented the following;
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Web_Analytics
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation/Electronic_Archives_Preservation_Policy

Cheers

hg

On 13 December 2011 12:29, Swanepoel, Barrie <barries at uj.ac.za<mailto:barries at uj.ac.za>> wrote:
It also seems that the overall university rankings are confused with that of the Repository rankings. That is what happened in our case anyway.

Thanks for that link to the citation analysis, I will forward to our IR manager. I also agree that citations is the most important factor in ranking the actual content generated by a university.

In the meantime, what strategies are you following, if at all, to ensure good webometrics rankings for your IR and university websites? Obviously one would not want to manipulate things to create a false impression?

Barrie Swanepoel
Systems Administrator
University of Johannesburg
Library and Information Centre
PO Box 524
Auckland Park
Johannesburg
Republic of South Africa
Tel: +27 11 559 2347<tel:%2B27%2011%C2%A0559%202347>

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From: Hilton Gibson [mailto:hilton.gibson at gmail.com<mailto:hilton.gibson at gmail.com>]
Sent: 13 December 2011 12:13 PM
To: Smith, Ina
Cc: Swanepoel, Barrie; irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za<mailto:irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za>
Subject: Re: [Irtalk] SUNScholar DSpace Version 1.7

As far as citation analysis is concerned, the only thing I found that was any good was this;
http://opcit.eprints.org<http://opcit.eprints.org/>

It would be great if all IR's could subscribe to a central citation server online so that citation metrics can be found and calculated openly and transparently.

On 13 December 2011 12:03, Smith, Ina <ismith at sun.ac.za<mailto:ismith at sun.ac.za>> <ismith at sun.ac.za<mailto:ismith at sun.ac.za>> wrote:
Hi Barrie

The decision to integrate the look and feel with the rest of the Library web look and feel was a decision we took, we wanted a new look for it anyway, but it was definitely not a requirement from Central IT or Marekting. I think it should be an institutional decision, and will differ .... Would love to hear what others think. Hilton is in the process of teaching himself css, and he did all the work himself. I think for us it was worth the trouble, since we will be launching the new look of the library during Jan. 2012.

My personal opinion re the webometrics ranking - I don't think it is the perfect system. One can also "cheat" the system in many ways e.g. attach each chapter in a thesis as a separate file  vs all chapters as part of one file (to keep it in context). You can then increase your ranking since it will appear as if you have "more" pdf files. In the end it should not be about the ranking (although it can help guide you to do things right), but it is about the ROI for the University - investing lots of money and making the scholarly output available, so that more can benefit from it. For me it would be more important to conduct a citation analysis of the items in the repository to track how many times each individual item has been cited. The number of "downloads" or 'hits"  I regard as not proper metrics at all.

Kind regards
Ina

PS: I like your new repository look, and it looks great! Well done!
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From: Swanepoel, Barrie [barries at uj.ac.za<mailto:barries at uj.ac.za>]
Sent: 13 December 2011 07:44 AM
To: Smith, Ina <ismith at sun.ac.za<mailto:ismith at sun.ac.za>>; irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za<mailto:irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za>
Subject: RE: SUNScholar DSpace Version 1.7

Dear Ina and list

We also upgraded at long last from 1.4.2 to 1.7.2.

Our URL now is: https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za

We are now using the Mirage theme.

With some outside help I think that we managed to get the upgrade done easily.

Could you expand on how you integrated with the look and feel of your institution? Was this a major issue? Did you get outside help? Is it worth the trouble?

Also, any thoughts from the list on the webometrics rankings and its actual value?

Regards

Barrie Swanepoel
Systems Administrator
University of Johannesburg
Library and Information Centre
PO Box 524
Auckland Park
Johannesburg
Republic of South Africa
Tel: +27 11 559 2347<tel:%2B27%2011%20559%202347>

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Sent: 12 December 2011 02:43 PM
To: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za<mailto:irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za>
Subject: [Irtalk] SUNScholar DSpace Version 1.7

Dear all

We have successfully upgraded SUNScholar to DSpace Version 1.7 at http://scholar.sun.ac.za. The look and feel is now consistent with our new Library web page to be launched soon, as well as SUNSearch (Primo federated search). Inquiries can be directed to hgibson at sun.ac.za<mailto:hgibson at sun.ac.za>.

There are many out there who have upgraded to 1.7 already. Please share with us.

Kind regards
Ina

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Cell: +27 846 464 758 | Phone: +27 21 808 4100