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DSpace and the Webometrics Institutional Repository Ranking, July 2012

From Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/)

Madrid, Spain  The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain, Cybermetrics lab recently presented the July edition of the popular web-exposure ranking for Institutional Repositories together with a major overhaul of the webometrics website.

DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repositories Ranking"

Ithaca, NY @tmire has published an analysis of the recent CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) Top Institutional Repositories Ranking on @mire's just-released, redesigned web site (http://atmire.com/). Author Bram Luyten, Head of Sales and Marketing, @mire, points out that ongoing changes to the ranking algorithm and internal search engine algorithms can cause changes in a repository's rank from one edition of the report to the next.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting, "Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating," Feb. 13-15

Boulder, CO Early registration ends on January 17 for the ELI Annual Meeting, "Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating," where a matrix of themes that capture the key opportunities and challenges facing the teaching and learning community will be explored. The meeting will be held February 13–15, 2012 
at the Hilton Austin in Austin, TX, and Online

Get Ready for Webometrics Repository Ranking Data Collection

By Bram Luyten, @mire

Leuven, Belgium Early in 2011, the CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) will harvest, analyze and publish data about online visibility of IRs in its Top 800 Institutional Repository Ranking. The January ranking will reflect the visibility of repositories in different online search engines. A limited time window is being used to get a snapshot of data. Here is the ranking production schedule:

DURASPACE WEB SEMINAR Sept 8: DSpace 1.6 Usage Statistics: How Does it Work?

Ithaca, NY Join Ben Bosman, CTO @mire for a free one-hour web seminar on September 8, 2010 at 11:00 EDT. He will explain how @mire’s open-source version of the “Content and Usage Analysis” DSpace module  released with DSpace 1.6 can work for you. The DSpace 1.6 statistics solution offers logging of usage data including bitstream downloads, item display page visits, and collection and community homepage visits.

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