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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.I(X)/7-15/2
AUTHOR: Beerappa
TITLE : WEBOMETRIC STUDY ON LIBRARY WEBSITES OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGIES (NITS) IN INDIA: A LINK ANALYSIS APPROACH
ABSTRACT: Now a days obtaining the web portal has become an obligatory to every organizations and individuals as well to execute their tasks in real time basis where the libraries are also not except from the same. It would be tough to imagine without the touch of the e-world. Here, an attempt has been made to analyze the NITs Libraries web portals of India by applying the webometric indicators to check their existence and performance in the virtual glob and ranked them according to the data availability in WIF and R-WIF basis. Further correlated both the ranking formulas with Spearman’s Rank Correlation which was found that WIF and R-WIF are correlated and associated where there is very less difference between the two ranking methods.
KEYWORDS: NITs, Webometric, Link analysis, Library websites