Websites of ICSSR Research Institutes: An Evaluation
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Department of Library and Information ScienceMizoram University
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Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram UniversityTribeni Pathak
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https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2022/v59i4/169201Keywords:
Content Analysis, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Social Science Research Institutions, Website Design, Website Evaluation, Website PerformanceAbstract
In this digital era, the user's communities are increasingly becoming more web-savvy and using the new emerging technologies for information communication, sharing, and collaboration which is reflected in users' information seeking, searching, and retrieval behaviors. In such a scenario, the websites emerged as an important tool for the dissemination of information to the remotely located users' and play an important role in the information dissemination process. The present study was intended to evaluate the contents and design of 29 ICSSR research institutes' websites. The research data was collected by survey and observation methods using a checklist and some web analyzer tools. The study shows that Delhi has the highest number of ICSSR research institutes (7). About half of the ICSSR institutes i.e. 13(44.83%) were providing the link for job information/vacancy on their website and Facebook was the most common social media tool used by ICSSR institutes and 16 (55%) research institutes have given Facebook links on their website followed by Twitter- 14(48.28%) and YouTube.The interlinking pattern was very weak among ICSSR research institutes' websites and the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) scored the highest 150.1 in website performance in the Nibbler test.
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