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Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities

An institutional repository (IR) is one of the resources available in most university libraries that have attracted external publishers, search engines and social media to link, share and index IR content. The traditional citation-based indicators of a publication may not reflect the IR quality and...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Nor Azman, Ramzi, Nurina Izzati, Mohamed, Su Elya Namira, Razak, Mohd. Sharul Hafiz
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Language:English
Published: Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Centre 2021
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95842/1/NurinaIzzati2021_WebometricAnalysisofInstitutionalRepositories.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95842/
http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.41.02.15649
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spelling my.utm.958422022-06-20T08:44:40Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95842/ Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities Ismail, Nor Azman Ramzi, Nurina Izzati Mohamed, Su Elya Namira Razak, Mohd. Sharul Hafiz QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science An institutional repository (IR) is one of the resources available in most university libraries that have attracted external publishers, search engines and social media to link, share and index IR content. The traditional citation-based indicators of a publication may not reflect the IR quality and have led to the creation of new indicators such as webometrics or web metrics. This study aims to analyse and explore Malaysia’s public university IR visibility, the numbers of an external link, page count, PDF count and URL web mention. We utilised backlinks web crawler and web search engine to collect raw data. A visualisation was created using the force-directed graphing method to interpret the IR network in the webspace. This study revealed that two research universities, Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), dominate web visibility based on webometrics indicators. All non-research universities are at the bottom of the rankings. This study shows institutional repositories from research universities are more visible in academic social networks and digital library sites. In contrast, non-research universities need to improve their visibility by mapping the universities’ IRs websites through hyperlink exchange and collaboration activities between each university and promoting the university publication to the academic social network sites. Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Centre 2021-03-15 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95842/1/NurinaIzzati2021_WebometricAnalysisofInstitutionalRepositories.pdf Ismail, Nor Azman and Ramzi, Nurina Izzati and Mohamed, Su Elya Namira and Razak, Mohd. Sharul Hafiz (2021) Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, 41 (2). pp. 130-139. ISSN 0974-0643 http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.41.02.15649 DOI:10.14429/djlit.41.02.15649
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
building UTM Library
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continent Asia
country Malaysia
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Ismail, Nor Azman
Ramzi, Nurina Izzati
Mohamed, Su Elya Namira
Razak, Mohd. Sharul Hafiz
Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities
description An institutional repository (IR) is one of the resources available in most university libraries that have attracted external publishers, search engines and social media to link, share and index IR content. The traditional citation-based indicators of a publication may not reflect the IR quality and have led to the creation of new indicators such as webometrics or web metrics. This study aims to analyse and explore Malaysia’s public university IR visibility, the numbers of an external link, page count, PDF count and URL web mention. We utilised backlinks web crawler and web search engine to collect raw data. A visualisation was created using the force-directed graphing method to interpret the IR network in the webspace. This study revealed that two research universities, Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), dominate web visibility based on webometrics indicators. All non-research universities are at the bottom of the rankings. This study shows institutional repositories from research universities are more visible in academic social networks and digital library sites. In contrast, non-research universities need to improve their visibility by mapping the universities’ IRs websites through hyperlink exchange and collaboration activities between each university and promoting the university publication to the academic social network sites.
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author Ismail, Nor Azman
Ramzi, Nurina Izzati
Mohamed, Su Elya Namira
Razak, Mohd. Sharul Hafiz
author_facet Ismail, Nor Azman
Ramzi, Nurina Izzati
Mohamed, Su Elya Namira
Razak, Mohd. Sharul Hafiz
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title Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities
title_short Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities
title_full Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities
title_fullStr Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities
title_full_unstemmed Webometric analysis of institutional repositories of Malaysian public universities
title_sort webometric analysis of institutional repositories of malaysian public universities
publisher Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
publishDate 2021
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95842/1/NurinaIzzati2021_WebometricAnalysisofInstitutionalRepositories.pdf
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