1. Webometric Ranking of Institutional Repositories in India By Mr. Samir Kumar Jalal Asst. Librarian Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi

2. Points to be Discussed Institutional Repository (IR) Need of IR Research Questions Methodology Results Conclusion

3. Need of IR To support Open Access Initiatives; To encourage the web publication; To archive institutional knowledge and make it available through intranet;

4. Need for Webometric Ranking To measure the global visibility and impact of scientific repositories; To know the relative position of a particular IR; To evaluate the present status of IR at the state level, national level and at the global level;

5. Research Questions How does global visibility for institution’s scholarship measure? Is it possible to find out the web presence of Indian institutional repositories? How to develop the ranking system for Indian institutional repositories? Is it possible to know highly used software in Indian institutional repositories?

6. Methodology Selection of Institutional Repositories Collection of URLs Selection of Search Engines Collection of Data Choice of Indicators for Ranking IR Normalization of Data Calculation of Rank Index

7. Selection of IRs OpenDOAR: an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. There are 52 IRs. http://www.opendoar.org/ ROAR: 73 institutional repositories in India are listed under Registry of Open Access Repository. http://roar.eprints.org

8. Choice of Indicators IndicatorSSymbolDescriptionsWeights SizeSTotal number of webpages20% VisibilityVNumber of inlinks40% Rich FilesRNumber of rich files as measured through (.pdf,.doc,.ps,.ppt,) 15% ScholarScGoogle scholar during 2006- 2010 i.e. last 5 years 15% Number of Records RiTotal number of records till September 2011 5% DurationDIt is calculated on the basis of its existence on the web 5%

9. Normalization of Data Based on each indicator, all the selected IRs are arranged in descending order of magnitude and assigned a rank for them.

10. Calculation of Rank Index Index Value may be calculated as: 20%.S + 40%.V + 15%.R + 15%.Sc + 5%.Ri + 5%.D Where, S= Size, V= Visibility, Sc= Google Scholar, Ri= Rich Files & D= Duration

11. Results Web presence of IRs in India Top Ten Indian IRs based on WISER Ranking Top Ten Indian IRs based on Modified WISER Top five software used in institutional repositories in India Choice of Content WISER= Web Indicators for Science Technology & Innovation (www.wiserweb.org)

12. Top Ten IRs in India Host InstituteDomain Rank IISc, Bangaloreeprints.iisc.ernet.in 1 University of Mysoredspace.vidyanidhi.org.in 2 IGNOUegyankosh.ac.in 3 NISCAIRnopr.niscair.res.in 4 National Institute of Oceanographydrs.nio.org 5 Indian Institute of Astrophysicsprints.iiap.res.in 6 Central Marine Fisheries Research Instituteeprints.cmfri.org.in 7 NIT, Rourkeladspace.nitrkl.ac.in 8 Bibliographic Informatics Division, NICopenmed.nic.in 9 Thapar Universitydspace.thapar.edu 10

13. Top Five IR Software RankSoftwareFrequency% 1Dspace78946.94 2E-Print32619.39 3 Digital Commons 865.12 4dLibra563.33 5OPUS553.27 6Others*36921.95 Total1681

14. Conclusion To maximize the visibility of institution’s research outputs. The authors’ visibility increases if their research outputs are available through open access institutional repositories. Institutional visibility increases resulting into an increase in world rank of the institutes. IR may be at global level, institutional level and departmental level.

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