Evaluating Open Access Paper Repository In Higher Education For Asean Region

TL;DR

This study evaluates the usage and effectiveness of open access paper repositories among 80 Southeast Asian universities, highlighting the most popular tools and top-performing institutions based on web metrics.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of repository tools and metrics across Southeast Asian universities, identifying the leading repositories and their web impact.

Findings

Eprints is the most widely used repository tool.

Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November has the highest web page count.

Bogor Agricultural University has the most papers in its repository.

Abstract

Paper repository at higher education is a collection of scientific articles created by the academic society. This study took as many as 80 universities in the Webometrics ranking of repositories in the Southeast Asia region. The tools used in this research is Google for number of web page and Google Scholar for number of document paper repository and Ahrefs for referring page, backlink and reffering domain. The result of this study, Eprints is the most widely used tools in higher education, as many as 37 higher educations (46,25%). Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November got the highest score in number of web page in Google (2.010.000), Bogor Agricultural University Scientific Repository got the highest score for number of document paper (44.300). University of Sumatera Utara Repository got the highest score for reffering page (82588) and backlink (86421). Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Institutional Repository got the highest score for reffering domain (532).