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2003
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A survey of linguistic dimensions of Web site hosting and interlinking of the universities of sixteen European countries is described. The results show that English is the dominant language both for linking pages and for all pages. In a typical country approximately half the pages were in English and half in one or more national languages. Normalised interlinking patterns showed three trends: 1) international interlinking throughout Europe in English, and additionally in Swedish in Scandinavia; 2) linking between countries sharing a common language, and 3) countries extensively hosting international links in their own major languages. This provides evidence for the multilingual character of academic use of the Web in Western Europe, at least outside the UK and Eire. Evidence was found that Greece was significantly linguistically isolated from the rest of the EU but that outsiders Norway and Switzerland were not.Citation
Scientometrics, 56 (3): 417-432Publisher
SpringerJournal
ScientometricsAdditional Links
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p407j710x8057287/Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
0138913015882861
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1023/A:1022387105904
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