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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can now access the IR ranking by Webometrics: <a href="http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Africa">
http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Africa</a> (for Africa only)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Indicators used for this ranking:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Size (S)</span></strong>. Number of web pages extracted from
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Visibility (V).</span></strong> The total number of external links received (backlinks) by the number of regerring domains for such links obtained from
<a href="http://www.majesticseo.com">MajesticSEO</a> and <a href="http://ahrefs.com">
ahrefs</a> databases.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Rich Files (R)</span></strong>. Files in formats like Adobe Acrobat (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.pdf</span></em>), MS Word (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">doc,
docx</span></em>), MS Powerpoint (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ppt, pptx</span></em>) and PostScript (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.ps & .eps</span></em>) extracted from Google.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Scholar (Sc)</span></strong>. Using
<a href="http://scholar.google.com">Google Scholar</a> database we calculate the normalised number of papers between 2007 and 2011.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Previous rankings for African Universities are available from:
<a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking/National">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking/National</a> (please notify me if any of the information is incorrect, and I will gladly correct it).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With kind regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ina</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="">Ina Smith<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">E-Research Repository Manager (SUNScholar) |
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">Stellenbosch University | Private Bag X5036, 7599 | South Africa</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za/"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUNScholar</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">
| </span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://library.sun.ac.za/English/services/az/oa/Pages/sunjournals.aspx"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUNJournals</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">| </span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://library.sun.ac.za/Afrikaans/services/az/oa/Pages/sunconferences.aspx"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUNConferences</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">
| </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">E-mail: </span>
<b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:ismith@sun.ac.za"><span style="color:#1F497D">ismith@sun.ac.za</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">
</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">|<b> </b>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">Tel: +27 21 808 9139 |
</span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D">Skype: smith.ina</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">Office hours: Mo-Fr: 08h00-16h30</span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="AF" style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">E-Navorsingsbewaarplekbestuurder (SUNScholar) | Universiteit Stellenbosch | Privaatsak X5036, 7599 | Suid-Afrika</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za/"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUNScholar</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">
| </span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://library.sun.ac.za/English/services/az/oa/Pages/sunjournals.aspx"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUNJournals</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">| </span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://library.sun.ac.za/Afrikaans/services/az/oa/Pages/sunconferences.aspx"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUNConferences</span></a>
| </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">E-pos:
</span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:ismith@sun.ac.za"><span style="color:#1F497D">ismith@sun.ac.za</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">
</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#002060">| T</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%; color:black">el: +27 21 808 9139 |
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