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Discoverability And Search Engine Visibility Of Repository Platforms, Danping Dong, Aaron Tay
Discoverability And Search Engine Visibility Of Repository Platforms, Danping Dong, Aaron Tay
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It is of increasing interest and importance to understand the discoverability of content hosted on institutional repositories (IRs) and data repositories beyond the library context and on the wider web, as IRs play a significant role in promoting and disseminating the research outputs of an institution. This chapter provides an overview of early studies on IR discoverability in search engines, discusses standardized metrics for repository usage and ways to monitor search engine optimization, and provides practical suggestions to expose IR content to non-Google indexes and aggregators, such as Unpaywall. The second part of this chapter presents a case study and …