it, to whom I can direct any enquiries. I hope this
helps someone.
Talat
-Original Message-
From: Arthur Sale [mailto:a...@ozemail.com.au]
Sent: 15 February 2008 21:42
To: Talat Chaudhri [tac]
Subject: RE: Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories
The practice of academics
-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAX
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Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 6:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] New
Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories
Hi
...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] New
Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories
I agree with most of Arthur's points, especially with regard
to activity and download measures, but I'm puzzled by his
comments about link-based visibility. He may be criticising
Hi,
On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Arthur Sale wrote:
This brings me to the second point: Repositories were not set up to
provide linkage, and if they were to be in the deep web apart from
being harvestable, their utility would be only slightly weakened.
Indeed this is exactly the situation
Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] New
Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories
Dear all:
Thanks for your interest in the Ranking of repositories, part
of our larger effort for rnaking webpresence of universities
and research centers. A few comments to your messages
] On Behalf Of Isidro F. Aguillo
Sent: Monday, 11 February 2008 6:53 PM
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] New
Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories
Dear all:
Thanks for your interest
Dear all:
Thanks for your interest in the Ranking of repositories, part of our larger
effort for rnaking webpresence of universities and research centers. A few
comments to your messages:
- Currently the Ranking of repositories is a beta version. We will thank
comments, suggestions and
It looks as though the algorithm is the same as for university
websites.
Rank each repository for inward bound hyperlinks (VISIBILITY)
Rank every repository for number of pages (SIZE)
Rank every repository for number of 'interesting' documents eg .doc.
.pdf (RICH FILES)
Rank every repository
