Webometric Analysis of Selected Library Consortium Websites of India: An Evaluative Study

Abstract

Nowadays, due to increase in the cost of the information resources, it is quite difficult for the libraries to procure all the information sources are required by the users. When the Library Consortium, for the dissemination of electronic resources got initiated, many institutional problems got solved by financial assistance to the university libraries. Many consortia in India are running well and many library consortium members are benefited too. The present study is an attempt to examine the websites of 9 Selected Library Consortia in India by analyzing the total number of webpages, domain authority, equity-links, internal & external links and based on that to calculate the web impact factor and to rank it. The study observed that Consortium like e-ShodhSindhu and DeLCon are the most popular among the 9 selected consortia of India.