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dc.contributor.authorThelwall, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-20T14:37:14Z
dc.date.available2006-06-20T14:37:14Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationThelwall, M. (2002), "Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university Web site interlinking", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 58 No. 5, pp. 563-574.
dc.identifier.issn0022-0418
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/00220410210441586
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/3138
dc.descriptionMain article
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by MCB UP Ltd in Journal of Documentation on 01/10/2002, available online: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410210441586 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
dc.description.abstractThe Web is an important medium for scholarly communication of various types, perhaps eventually to replace entirely some traditional mechanisms such as print journals. Yet the Web analogy of citations, hyperlinks, are much more varied in use and existing citation techniques are difficult to generalise to the new medium. In this context, one new challenging object of study is the modern multi-faceted, multi-genre, partly unregulated university Web site. This paper develops a methodology to analyse the patterns of interlinking between university Web sites and uses it to indicate that the degree of interlinking decreases with distance, at least in the UK. This is perhaps not in itself a surprising result, despite claims of a paradigm shift from the traditional virtual college towards collaboratories, but the methodology developed can also be used to refine existing Web link metrics to produce more powerful tools for comparing groups of sites.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMCB UP Ltd
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00220410210441586
dc.subjectCollaborative working
dc.subjectWebometrics
dc.subjectWeblinks
dc.subjectUK
dc.subjectAcademic websites
dc.titleEvidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Documentation
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dc.source.volume58
dc.source.issue5
dc.source.beginpage563
dc.source.endpage574
refterms.dateFCD2020-06-16T15:41:40Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-21T11:04:39Z
html.description.abstractThe Web is an important medium for scholarly communication of various types, perhaps eventually to replace entirely some traditional mechanisms such as print journals. Yet the Web analogy of citations, hyperlinks, are much more varied in use and existing citation techniques are difficult to generalise to the new medium. In this context, one new challenging object of study is the modern multi-faceted, multi-genre, partly unregulated university Web site. This paper develops a methodology to analyse the patterns of interlinking between university Web sites and uses it to indicate that the degree of interlinking decreases with distance, at least in the UK. This is perhaps not in itself a surprising result, despite claims of a paradigm shift from the traditional virtual college towards collaboratories, but the methodology developed can also be used to refine existing Web link metrics to produce more powerful tools for comparing groups of sites.


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