Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals:

Title page
Contents
	Figures and Tables
	About the Author
	Preface to the Second Edition
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
	Metrics
	Indicators
	Web metrics and Ranganathan’s laws of library science
	Web metrics for the library and information professional
	Responsible metrics
	The aim of this book
	The structure of the rest of this book
CHAPTER 2 Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, Web Metrics and Webometrics
	Introduction
	Web metrics
	Relational and evaluative metrics
	Validating the results
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 3 Data Collection Tools
	Introduction
	The anatomy of a URL, web links and the structure of the web
	Search engines 1.0
	Web crawlers
	Search engines 2.0
	Post Search Engine 2.0: fragmentation
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 4 Evaluating Web Impact
	Introduction
	Websites
	Blogs
	Wikis
	Internal v. external metrics
	Internal metrics
	External metrics
	A systematic approach to content analysis
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 5 Evaluating Social Media Impact
	Introduction
	Aspects of social network sites
	The ability to navigate: content views
	Typology of social network sites
	Socialising social network sites
	Networking social network sites
	Navigation social network sites
	Atypical social media – Wikipedia
	The most popular social media services
	Sentiment analysis
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 6 Relational Web Metrics and Social Network Analysis
	Introduction
	Social network analysis methods
	Node centrality
	Cluster identification
	Statistical properties of the graph
	Topic modelling
	Sources for relational network analysis
	Two R examples
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 7 Web Bibliometrics
	Introduction
	More bibliographic items
	New bibliographic sources
	Greater context
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 8 Web Metrics for Data and Code
	Introduction
	The web of data
	From data documents . . .
	. . . to a semantic web?
	The importance of code
	GitHub statistics
	A brief exploration of code-metrics with R
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 9 The Future of Web Metrics and the Library and Information Professional
	Introduction
	How far we have come
	The future of web metrics
	The future of the library and information professional and web metrics
References
Index