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color:#333333'>Source: facebook <a
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Earlier this month, the CSIC (Spain) published it's <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=ce27ed8cda12ca8d8232610794a76fac&url=http%3A%2F%2Frepositories.webometrics.info%2Ftop800_rep_inst.asp"
target="_blank" title="http://repositories.webometrics.info/top800_rep_inst.asp">Top
800 Institutional Repository Ranking</a>. That's right, instead of listing 400
institutions, they now increased this to 800. This is useful and motivating for
smaller repositories, to monitor their progress, even if that means jumping
from the 500 range to the 400 range.<br>
<br>
A short introduction about the Webometrics Repository Ranking initiative:<br>
<br>
The aim of the Ranking is to support Open Access initiatives and therefore the
free access to scientific publications in an electronic form and to other
academic material. The web indicators are used here to measure the global
visibility and impact of the scientific repositories.<a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=8761904684c7f21ccbed487417a19663&url=http%3A%2F%2Frepositories.webometrics.info%2Fmethodology_rep.html"
target="_blank"
title="http://repositories.webometrics.info/methodology_rep.html">Read a full
description of the methodology</a><br>
<br>
This months ranking is strongly shaken up, compared to the January 2010
ranking. Although there is no formal or full explanation, 2 elements could
contribute:<br>
<br>
- .xls files are no longer counted as full texts ("rich files").<br>
- Because of "strange results" visibility in the Bing search engine
was excluded form the visibility parameter.<br>
<br>
Changes in the ranking algorithm always make it very tedious to compare this
ranking to previous editions, but as the author, Dr. Isidro F. Aguillo, states:<br>
<br>
<b>"Web is still evolving, I think in the future, the web will reflect
even better the reality, in the meantime I am fueling the virtuous circle. If
the ranking push people to web publish then web indicators become more
trusted."</b><br>
<br>
Thanks to some <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=89c20e6d782fe0dc3a534d89177ea27a&url=https%3A%2F%2Feldorado.tu-dortmund.de%2Fhandle%2F2003%2F26032"
target="_blank" title="https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/handle/2003/26032">fine
work of Claudia Jürgen in the past</a>, identifying repository platforms for
the listed ones, and the work I did on the July 2009 and January 2010 rankings,
we compared this new ranking to the old one.<br>
<br>
In overall, <b>DSpace's presence among the top 100 listed repositories is
fairly stable</b>, with 41 repositories listed now, compared to 45 in January
2010 and 43 in January 2009.<br>
<br>
We're very proud to see @mire clients, and their repository projects, listed
here. Click them for more information on the project.<br>
<br>
Here are DSpace repositories for which the rank improved, compared to January
2010:<br>
<br>
+4 NA Ohio State University Knowledge Bank<br>
+7 EU University of Helsinki Ethesis<br>
+8 EU Cambridge University Dspace<br>
+12 EU </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=836a1f20598efdb0eacdce370b8907b7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Flirias.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/lirias.php">Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven Lirias Repository</a></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
+21 EU Tartu University Library Dspace<br>
+23 EU </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=8d367d0c691bb96247f2780c6fad51e8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fe-archivo.uc3m.es%2F"
target="_blank" title="http://e-archivo.uc3m.es/">Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid Archivo Abierto Institucional</a></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
+24 EU Diposit de la Recerca de Catalunya<br>
+29 NA University of Kansas Scholarworks<br>
+34 CA <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=f3935ef04b883e28fc5a76550c9bf1a5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Fubc.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/ubc.php"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University
of British Columbia CIRCLE</span></a><br>
+35 EU Research in Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere and Solid Earth Fields<br>
+49 NA University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Ideals<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, there were some Instances who dropped in the ranking:<br>
<br>
-119 EU Malmo University Electronic Publishing<br>
-110 AS Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers<br>
-104 AS Ochanomizu University Web Library Institutional Repository<br>
-90 AU Flinders University Academic Commons<br>
-86 EU Universitat Dortmund Eldorado Institutionellen Repositorium<br>
-78 AS Nagasaki University Academic Output<br>
-78 NA SUNY Dspace<br>
-77 NA Rochester Institute of Technology Digital Media Library<br>
-77 EU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Academic Repository<br>
-69 AS National Tsing Hua University Repository<br>
-66 NA University of Oregon Scholars' Bank<br>
-66 AS Kanazawa University Repository for Academic Resources<br>
-64 NA University of Rochester Research<br>
-63 AU Australian National University Dspace<br>
-60 EU Aberystwyth University Cadair Repository<br>
-51 NA University of Calgary Dspace<br>
-48 EU Universidade do Minho Repositorium<br>
-44 AU University of Sydney E-Scholarship<br>
-43 NA Cornell University eCommons<br>
-43 NA Boston University Digital Research Archive<br>
-41 EU Leiden University Digital Repository<br>
-41 NA Rice University Scholarship<br>
-38 AS University of Tokyo Repository<br>
-36 NA AMNH Scientific Publications<br>
-35 IBC Biblioteca Digital Jurídica do Superior Tribunal de Justica<br>
-34 AS Waseda University Dspace<br>
-34 NA University of Wisconsin Digital Repository<br>
-32 AS Kyushu University Institutional Repository<br>
-31 NA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Beacon Espace<br>
-30 NA Caltech Authors<br>
-29 AS Indian Statistical Institute Digital Library<br>
-27 NA University of Michigan Deep Blue<br>
-22 EU National Library of Finland Dspace Services<br>
-22 AU University of Adelaide Digital Library<br>
-21 NA Université de Montreal Depot Institutionnel Numerique<br>
-19 NA University of New México Institutional Repository<br>
-18 AS Nagoya University Repository<br>
-15 NA Oregon State University Scholarsarchive<br>
-15 IBC Universidad de los Andes Repositorio Institucional<br>
-15 EU Goteborg University Open Archive<br>
-15 EU University of Bergen Open Research Archive<br>
-15 NA Simon Fraser University Institutional Repository<br>
-11 EU University of Edinburgh Research Archive<br>
-8 EU </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=e1e4d400fe66dd7fa188a9ea2edcd8bc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Futrecht.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/utrecht.php">Igitur Archive
Universiteit Utrecht</a></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
-8 EU </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=cb1575c9c1c213300e53ef57bc7994b4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Finist.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/inist.php">INIST I-Revues</a></span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
-8 NA Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository<br>
-7 NA University of Toronto T Space<br>
-5 EU Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Upcommons<br>
-3 AS Kyoto University Research Information Repository<br>
-2 EU Digital CSIC<br>
-1 NA MIT Dspace<br>
<br>
We were able to identify a few institutions who weren't in the top 100 before,
but are now. Unfortunately, we have no exact ranking for these institutions
from previous editions. (position - institution name - positions won):<br>
<br>
35 EU Université de Liège Open Repository and Bibliography<br>
59 NA ScholarSpace University of Hawai'i at Manoa <br>
73 EU Libre Acces Aux Rapports Scientifiques et Techniques<br>
74 NA University of Texas at Austin Libraries Digital Repository<br>
96 NA Smithsonian Institution Digital Repository<br>
<br>
Especially the Université de Liège's appearance on place 35 is remarkable, as
it's a very high entry for an institution not being in the top 100 before (so
it's at least 65 positions up)<br>
<br>
It would be great to hear from the top climbers, if they made certain
customizations or improved their repository in a certain way, to explain the
improvement in rank. At this point it's very hard to identify whether the
change in the algorithm is fully responsible for the changes, or whether best
practices at institutions could explain the changes.<br>
<br>
To make a further analysis for your institution, it could be useful to compare
the 4 different metrics between July & January:<br>
<br>
<b>Size (S)</b>. Number of pages recovered from the four largest engines:
Google, Yahoo, and Exalead.<br>
<b>Visibility (V)</b>. The total number of unique external links received
(inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo Search and
Exalead.<br>
<b>Rich Files (R)</b>. Only the number of text files in Acrobat format (.pdf)
files extracted from Google and Yahoo are considered.<br>
<b>Scholar (Sc)</b>. Using Google Scholar database we calculate the mean of the
normalised total number of papers and those (recent papers) published between
2001 and 2008.<br>
<br>
After the ranking in January 2010, we identified following institutions that
kept winning positions, despite the change in algortihms:<br>
<br>
(position January 2009 - position July 2009 - position January 2010 - region -
repo name)<br>
85 83 38 NA Cornell University eCommons<br>
53 36 17 EU INIST I-Revues<br>
122 82 64 AS Nagasaki University Academic Output<br>
79 49 36 IBC Biblioteca Digital Jurídica do Superior Tribunal de Justica<br>
140 99 87 NA Rice University Scholarship<br>
63 54 43 EU Digital CSIC<br>
135 122 113 EU <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=836a1f20598efdb0eacdce370b8907b7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Flirias.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/lirias.php">Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven Lirias Repository</a><br>
31 27 26 NA Ohio State University Knowledge Bank<br>
<br>
>From these, only <b>Ohio State University Knowledge Bank</b> and <b><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=836a1f20598efdb0eacdce370b8907b7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Flirias.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/lirias.php">Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven Lirias Repository</a></b> kept up with the trend with +4 and +12
positions gained.<br>
<br>
To conclude ... all DSpace instances that we could identify in the ranking
(especially under 200, there are probably a lot more, but we didn't have the
time to verify the full list of 800 repositories).<br>
<br>
(Current Ranking - Difference between Jan 2010 and July 2010 - Region -
Repository name)<br>
<br>
7 -1 NA MIT Dspace<br>
19 -8 EU </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=e1e4d400fe66dd7fa188a9ea2edcd8bc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Futrecht.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/utrecht.php">Igitur Archive
Universiteit Utrecht</a></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
22 +4 NA Ohio State University Knowledge Bank<br>
25 -8 EU </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=cb1575c9c1c213300e53ef57bc7994b4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Finist.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/inist.php">INIST I-Revues</a></span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
28 -3 AS Kyoto University Research Information Repository<br>
29 -5 EU Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Upcommons<br>
30 -7 NA University of Toronto T Space<br>
31 -15 NA Oregon State University Scholarsarchive<br>
34 -27 NA University of Michigan Deep Blue<br>
35 EU Université de Liège Open Repository and Bibliography<br>
36 -8 NA Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository<br>
38 +7 EU University of Helsinki Ethesis<br>
43 +34 CA <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=410508203767&h=f3935ef04b883e28fc5a76550c9bf1a5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatmire.com%2Fubc.php"
target="_blank" title="http://atmire.com/ubc.php"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University
of British Columbia CIRCLE</span></a><br>
45 -2 EU Digital CSIC<br>
47 -15 IBC Universidad de los Andes Repositorio Institucional<br>
50 -15 EU Goteborg University Open Archive<br>
51 +2 AS National Taiwan University Repository<br>
55 -22 EU National Library of Finland Dspace Services<br>
59 AS ScholarSpace University of Hawai'i at Manoa <br>
61 +24 EU Diposit de la Recerca de Catalunya<br>
62 +29 NA University of Kansas Scholarworks<br>
66 -48 EU Universidade do Minho Repositorium<br>
71 -35 IBC Biblioteca Digital Jurídica do Superior Tribunal de Justica<br>
72 +21 EU Tartu University Library Dspace<br>
73 EU Libre Acces Aux Rapports Scientifiques et Techniques<br>
74 NA University of Texas at Austin Libraries Digital Repository<br>
75 -41 EU Leiden University Digital Repository<br>
76 -32 AS Kyushu University Institutional Repository<br>
78 -30 NA Caltech Authors<br>
81 -43 NA Cornell University eCommons<br>
82 +35 EU Research in Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere and Solid Earth
Fields<br>
86 -31 NA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Beacon Espace<br>
88 -34 AS Waseda University Dspace<br>
90 -22 AU University of Adelaide Digital Library<br>
91 -18 AS Nagoya University Repository<br>
93 -15 EU University of Bergen Open Research Archive<br>
94 -15 NA Simon Fraser University Institutional Repository<br>
95 -66 NA University of Oregon Scholars' Bank<br>
96 NA Smithsonian Institution Digital Repository<br>
98 -38 AS University of Tokyo Repository<br>
99 +49 NA University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Ideals<br>
101 +12 EU Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Lirias Repository<br>
113 EU Universidad de Alicante Repositorio Institucional<br>
115 -63 AU Australian National University Dspace<br>
117 -21 NA Université de Montreal Depot Institutionnel Numerique<br>
118 -44 AU University of Sydney E-Scholarship<br>
124 NA Texas A&M University Digital Repository<br>
125 -66 AS Kanazawa University Repository for Academic Resources<br>
128 -41 NA Rice University Scholarship<br>
131 -11 EU University of Edinburgh Research Archive<br>
132 +8 EU Cambridge University Dspace<br>
137 AU University of Technology Sydney Press Institutional Repository<br>
138 -19 NA University of New México Institutional Repository<br>
139 -34 NA University of Wisconsin Digital Repository<br>
142 -78 AS Nagasaki University Academic Output<br>
147 SA Repositorio de la Escuela Superior Politécnica del Ecuador<br>
148 -78 NA SUNY Dspace<br>
149 -69 AS National Tsing Hua University Repository<br>
153 +23 EU Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Archivo Abierto Institucional<br>
155 NA University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository<br>
159 NA University of Manitoba Mspace<br>
162 -36 NA AMNH Scientific Publications<br>
163 -77 NA Rochester Institute of Technology Digital Media Library<br>
167 -104 AS Ochanomizu University Web Library Institutional Repository<br>
167 EU Università di Trieste Openstarts<br>
169 -51 NA University of Calgary Dspace<br>
170 -43 NA Boston University Digital Research Archive<br>
175 NA New York University Faculty Digital Archive<br>
178 AS Indian Institute of Astrophysics Dspace<br>
181 AS Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Institutional Repository<br>
189 EU Cranfield University CERES<br>
192 AS National Chengchi University Repository<br>
193 EU Jyväskylä University Digital Archive<br>
194 NA University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy<br>
196 -29 AS Indian Statistical Institute Digital Library<br>
197 EU University of Helsinki HELDA<br>
207 AS Griffith University Research Online<br>
209 -110 AS Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers<br>
212 IBC Universidad de Chile Repositorio Académico<br>
215 NA University of Washington Researchworks<br>
216 AS Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Repository<br>
218 AS University of Hong Kong Scholars Hub<br>
219 AS Tokyo Gakugei University Repository System<br>
223 NA Kansas State University Research Exchange<br>
226 NA National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Repository<br>
234 NA Indiana University Scholarworks<br>
236 NA Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community<br>
239 -64 NA University of Rochester Research<br>
240 EU University of Leicester Research Archive<br>
245 AF Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Space<br>
247 EU Brunel University Research Archive<br>
249 IBC Universidade Federal do Parana Biblioteca Digital de Teses e
Dissertações<br>
250 EU Trinity College University of Dublin Research Archive<br>
251 -77 EU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Academic Repository<br>
253 EU European University Institute Institutional Repository<br>
256 -86 EU Universitat Dortmund Eldorado Institutionellen Repositorium<br>
257 -60 EU Aberystwyth University Cadair Repository<br>
259 NA Queen's University Qspace<br>
261 -90 AU Flinders University Academic Commons<br>
264 AU University of Canterbury Research Repository<br>
269 AS Kumamoto University Repository<br>
271 AS Mie University Scholarly E-Collections<br>
274 -119 EU Malmo University Electronic Publishing<br>
277 AS Yokohama National University Repository<br>
279 NA Youngstown State University Repository<br>
284 AS National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository<br>
285 EU School of Advanced Study University of London Space E-Repository<br>
287 AU Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization Repository<br>
305 NA Drexel University e-Repository and Archive<br>
315 EU Universita degli Studi di Milano Institutional Archive of Research<br>
326 AS Kagoshima University Repository<br>
329 NA Indiana and Purdue University Indianapolis Digital Archive<br>
338 EU Loughborough University Institutional Repository<br>
347 AS Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Academic
Repository<br>
353 EU Roskilde University Digital Archive<br>
365 NA University of Waterloo UWSpace<br>
369 EU Universita degli Studi della Tuscia Dspace<br>
376 AS Xiamen University Institutional Repository<br>
390 EU University College of Boras Academic Digital Archive<br>
414 EU University of Hertfordshire Research Archive<br>
418 EU Universitat Kassel Dspace<br>
418 EU Open University Netherlands Dspace<br>
441 EU University of Bristol Repository of Scholarly ePrints<br>
446 NA George Mason University Archival Repository Service<br>
461 EU University of Macedonia Digital Library & Institutional Repository<br>
482 AS Raman Research Institute Digital Repository<br>
516 AS Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Prometheus Academic Collections<br>
641 EU Technical University Ostrava Repository<br>
729 AU University of Auckland Researchspace<br>
765 EU Halmstad University Scholarly Archive <br>
<br>
If you think we made a mistake, or if you want to discuss this ranking, please
do, this could be interesting.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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