An Evaluation of Selected Universities’ Library Website of North-East India: A Webometric Analysis

Authors

  • Krishna Brahma Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram 796004, India.
  • Manoj Kumar Verma ssociate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram 796004, India.
  • Manoj Kumar Sinha Professor, HoD, Department of Library and Information Science & Dean, Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences,Assam University, Silchar, Assam-788011, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Webometric, National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2018, universities, North-East India, library websites, link analysis, web impact factor

Abstract

The paper studies the domain and page authority, top followed links to the site, spam score, internal  followed links and external followed links, total links, total linking domains and followed linking  domains, and the web impact factor (internal, external and simple)of top seven universities of North-East  India ranked by National Institutional Ranking Framework selected (NIRF) in 2018.The study explored  that overall, the WIF of Mizoram University Library ranked at top with highest Internal WIF of 172.73  and Simple WIF of 172.84, whereas, North-Eastern Hill University Library occupied second place with  Internal WIF of 139.45, External WIF of 4.58 and Simple WIF of 144.28 and Nagaland University  Library recorded to be on third place with Internal WIF of 77.95 and Simple WIF of 77.95. 

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Published

2019-12-20

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Vol. 39 No. 2 (2019): Library Progress (International) (Jul-Dec) 2019

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An Evaluation of Selected Universities’ Library Website of North-East India: A Webometric Analysis . (2019). Library Progress (International), 39(2), 311–321. https://doi.org/10.48165/