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University of North Bengal
Abstract
The primary objective of this study is to assess the quality and performance of South and East Asian Open Access Library and Information Science Repositories. The study is segmented into four parts, the first of which is devoted to quality assessment and, the second is the repositories’ performance using the web analysis tool Nibbler and Alexa. In the third segment, the Revised Web Impact Factors (RWIF) was calculated, and the final part represents the Ranking of the repositories in terms of visibility, transparency, and excellence.The results indicate that the Chinese Institutional Repository of the Chinese Academy of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and the Peking University Institutional Repository ranked as the first and the second, respectively, with Japanese repositories ranking the last. “Taiwan’s Chaoyang University of Technology Institutional Repository” has the most comprehensive collection of resources with varying levels of availability of resources in terms of quality assurance indicators. The authors of this paper are in the dire belief that this study may aid administrators in determining the repositories’ strengths and weaknesses to enhance their quality and performance.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.3.16.3
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