A Webometric Analysis of selected Institutes of National Importance Websites in India

It has been experienced that web based information resources have great role to play in academic and research activities. Keeping this fact in view information professionals are largely depending upon the web based information resources. A huge amount of data in every subject stream is available on different websites. Internet is a network of networks carrying information on almost any subject under the sun. Everybody today would like to be on internet because of wealth of information that lies there to be exchanged. And, with its global connections and millions of users, the internet is world’s biggest electronic library and publish gathering place, which contain a vast amount of information. Information professionals and users face a number of challenges in networked information resources and service environment. But problem is only one that how to retrieve desired information. Many attempts were made and solution comes as ‘webometrics’. In this paper an attempt has been made to describe this concept.