Webometric analysis of Library Websites of Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) of India: A study

Abstract

Library websites plays an important role in dissemination of information of the institution and library resources. It acts as a trustworthy mirror of the institute. To evaluate the library website performance webometric tools and indicators are required. The present study calculated web impact factor (WIF) and R-WIF (Revised WIF) of top ten library websites of HEIs (Higher Educational Institutes) of India and further correlated both the formulas with Spearman's Rank Correlation. It was found that WIF and R-WIF are correlated and associated which depicts that there is very less difference between the two ranking methods. The position of library websites of half HEIs of India is same while evaluating through both the formulas. After a pilot survey, the list of top ten HEIs of India is extracted from ranking web of Universities. Google search engine was chosen for the study.

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“…Furthermore, in this study, they implemented an automated ranking and recommendation system for Lebanon university websites. Chakravarty and Wasan (2015) calculated the WIF and RWIF of top 10 library websites of higher education institutes in India by desiring Google search engine and correlated these two formulas. Their results shown that the positive and strong relationship between WIF and RWIF were very less difference between the two ranking methods.…”

“…Furthermore, it should be enormous, cover more hyperlinks with advanced search facilities to count links possessed by the websites (Chakravarty & Wasan, 2015). The WIF studies conducted by Ingwersen (1998), Thomas and Willett (2000), Smith and Thelwall (2002) Jalal, Biswas and Mukhopadhyay (2010) and Parrish (2016) mentioned that AltaVista was once the most popular search engine, and for a while ranked closely behind Google and Yahoo but from 2004, AltaVista was owned by Yahoo and AltaVista's home page was redirected to Yahoo's main page with powered from the Yahoo search index.…”