Evaluation of National Librariesâ€™ Websites of BRICS Countries: A Webometric Analysis
Krishna Brahma, Manoj Kumar Verma
International Journal of Web Applications, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2018.
DOI:  10.6025/ijwa/2018/10/4/117-126
Link: http://www.dline.info/ijwa/fulltext/v10n4/ijwav10n4_1.pdf
Abstract:
The present study evaluates the national librariesâ€™ websites of five countries i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa (BRICS). It analyzes the domain & page authority, domain extensions, internal equity-passing links,
external equity-passing links, internal links, external links, total links, followed linking root domains, total linking root
domains, just discovered links, linking C blocks, spam score, types of file format and Web Impact Factor of five national
librariesâ€™ websites. The study explored that the domain (67) & page Authority (73) of the National Library of China was the
highest, the National Library of Russia has secured the highest internal equity-passing links (79884), total equity-passing
links (99661) and Total Links (101000), while, the highest external equity-passing links (22354), total external links
(22592) and followed linking root domains (1674) was occupied by National Library of China. It also observed that all the
selected national libraries are using 100% HTML, PDF, JPEG, and GIF file formats, followed by PNG, WMA and the lowest
was MS-Word, the maximum file formats were used by National Library of Brazil (7). National Library of Russia occupied first
place with highest Internal WIF, External WIF and Simple WIF of 1210.36, 326.6 and 1530.3 respectively.