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Webometrics Ranking of Digital Libraries of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences

  • Dastani, Meisam (Knowledge and Information Science, Payame noor University) ;
  • Atarodi, Alireza (Knowledge and Information Science, Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences) ;
  • Panahi, Somayeh (Knowledge and Information Science, University of Qom)
  • Received : 2018.04.28
  • Accepted : 2018.08.28
  • Published : 2018.09.30
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Abstract

Digital 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 webometrics tools and indicators are required. The aim of the present research is study the webometrics of Digital Libraries of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences on the Web to determine the amount of the visibility a website and web pages. The URL and link of 42 digital library website is obtained directly by visiting the university's website. To extract the number of indexed web pages (size), rich files have used the Google search engine Also, to extract the number of scientific resources retrieved have used the Google Scholar search engine. To calculate and obtain the number of links received have used the MOZ search engine. Generally, the results indicated that the website of Iranian digital libraries did not have a good performance in term of webometric indexes, and none of them were not rated at all indexes, only some of the websites mentioned in one or two indicators.

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