Ranking of World Web Repositiories

Ranking Web of World Repositories just published the latest ranking of January 2009.

Check the top 300 World repositories at http://repositories .webometrics. info/top300_ rep.asp

And top 300 Institutional repositories at http://repositories .webometrics. info/top300_ rep_inst. asp

Among World repositories, IISc from India stands 39th and ISI stands 105th. The leading International Repository in Library and Information Science and Technology called "E-LIS" 19th in the ranking.

Among Institutional repositories from India, IISc repository stands 28th and ISI repository stands 89th.

Methodology:

Using as basis the data from the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpendOAR) the list of repositories is compuled accroding to certain conditions. See more details here about the methodilogy used http://repositories .webometrics. info/methodology _rep.html