Webometric Analysis of Web-domains of Private Universities of Himachal Pradesh

Library Herald Year : 2016, Volume : 54, Issue : 4 First page : ( 459) Last page : ( 474) Print ISSN : 0024-2292. Online ISSN : 0976-2469. Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-2469.2016.00030.0

Webometric Analysis of Web-domains of Private Universities of Himachal Pradesh

Kumar Jatinder Librarian, Baddi University of Emerging Sciences and Technology, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh-173 205, India. Phone: 98728–42292, E-mail: librarian@baddiuniv.ac.in

. Abstract The current study investigates and presents the webometric and technology analysis of websites of private universities of Himachal Pradesh on the basis of web impact factor, revised web impact factor, hyperlink analysis and evaluating technologies applied to build respective university website. The calculation and evaluation of extracted data represent access, usage and ranking of universities’ websites. The results show that private universities of the northern hilly region of India are significantly serving to student community. The study further suggests that a standardized evaluation process is required to assist information scientist for analyzing the storage, organization and structure of online contents of an academic website.

Keywords Webometric study, technology analysis, web impact factor, link analysis,Kumar Jatinder.