Shodhaganga :An active model for improving the visibility of Indian

Research

Miss Manisha R. KhakreLibrarian, Arts, Commerce & Science College,

Arvi , Dist. Wardha, Maharashtra, IndiaE-mail ID- ms.manisha_khakre@rediffmail.com

 

An Overviewconcept of ETD

creation of ETD

Merits of ETD

Shodhganga ETD Repository

ETD initiatives in India

Role of Universities and Librarians

Benefits of ETD

Globle Status Of ETD Repository

Concept of Repository ETD repositories are becoming a major resource for

information in all subjects and ETD repositories are

providing institutional knowledge available online and

thereby increasing it’s visibility and use.

ETD are the important source

for the researcher in the world. many higher education

institutes are actively engaged in introducing ETD

repositories at national as well as international level.

Benefits of ETD Repository• More access to research

• Less expense to authors and libraries per cost

• No physical shelf space

• Lower cataloging costs.

• Better presentation of research

• Addition of multimedia files

• More dynamic presentation of data hyperlinks

• Programs and code

• Other format support.

Merits of ETD RepositoryFollowing are the merits of ETD which are given by Bandra (2002)1

• To improve Students to convey a research message through the use of multimedia and hypermedia technologies.

• To improve graduate education by allowing students to Produce electronic documents, use digital libraries and understand issue in publishing.

• To increase the availability of student research for scholars and preserve it electronically.

• To lower the cost of submitting and handling theses and dissertation.

• To empower universities to unlock their information resources.• To advance digital library Technology.

Creation of Repository For creation of ETD word processor software vis. Ms-Word,

Latex etc.used The theses or dissertation are submitted as a

PDF (portable Document Format) file. Dspace, Reprints ,

Fedora etc.digital softwares has been broadest applications.

Today open Archives initiative protocol for metadata

Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is an interoperability framework based

on HTTP . Metadata tags such as SGML/XML and MARK UP

language that assign unique identifiers to identify items with

in a repository

UGC Recommendations The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for

Award of M.Phill./Ph.D. Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1st

June 2009 provides for submission of electronic version of

theses and dissertation with an aim to facilitate open access to

Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community

worldwide. Online availability of electronic theses through

centrally-maintained digital repositories will not only ensure

access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help

in raising the standard and quality of research.

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Global Status of repositories

Fig 1- Growth of Records per year from 1990 to 2013 retrieved from ROAR dated on 05/03/2013

Repository name Num. Rec

s.Software

catalysis datiabase 2327 EPrintsCMFRI Digital Repository 8921 EPrintsDigital repository of Cochin University of Science & Technology

2296 DSpaceDigitalLibrary@CUSAT 5293 DSpaceDRS at National Institute Of Oceanography 4213 DSpaceDSpace @ GGSIPU 135 DSpacedspace @ sdmcet 60 DSpaceDSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 526 DSpaceDSpace at NCRA 84 DSpaceDSpace at Vidyanidhi 5482 DSpaceDspace@NITR 1779 DSpaceDSpace@TU 2067 DSpaceDU Eprint Archive 170 EPrintsElectronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science

1844 DSpaceEprint@NML 5486 EPrintsEprints@IARI 230 EPrintsEPrints@IITD 2141 DSpaceEtheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service 1010 EPrintsIndian Institute of Astrophysics Repository 5724 DSpaceInstitutional Repository of Intectual Contributions of Delhi Technological University 841 DSpace

ETD REPOSITORIES IN INDIA

Repository name Country Num. Recs.

SoftwareKautilya Digital Repository at IGIDR India 207 DSpace

Knowledge Repository Open Network

India 671 DSpace

Librarians' Digital Library India 465 DSpace

Mahatma Gandhi University Theses Online

India 1122 Nitya

National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository

India 5354 EPrints

ShodhGanga: A resevior of Indian Theses India 5614 DSpace

Up to 05/03/2013 There are 107 Indian Universities signed MOU and 5600 theses uploaded on the Shodhganga ETD repository

Fig-3 Home page of Shodhaganga: A reservoir of Indian Theses

Name of University URL No of Thesis

1) Cochin University of Science and Technology

2) Mahatma Gandhi University

3) Podicherry University

4) University of Hydra bad

5) University of Pune

www.cusatoac.in

www.mguniversity.ac.in

www.pondiuni.edu.in

www.uohyd.ac.in

www.unipune.ac.in

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938

679

416

289

Top Contributing Universities in Shodhganga

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Sant Gadge BaBa Amaravati University

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Theses submitted by Sant Gadge Baba Amaravati, University

Sr. No. Department No. of Theses1 Business Administration &

Management3

2 Chemistry 13 Education 24 Engineering and

Technology6

5 English 16 Mathematics 17 Physical Education 1

At University level well-equipped computer labs must be put in place to provide, reducing the time from acceptance to public access, and, of course, one ETD can have multiple simultaneous usersLibrary community must take initiatives in the maintenance of ETD seriously. It is essential for librarians as information professionals to take the initiatives to make progress in this crucial area and librarian should take opportunity to attend workshops and conferences to gain knowledge of ETD repositories.

Role of Universities and Librarians

ConclusionINFLIBNET is now taking steps in this direction. INFLIBNET

starting developing a National Union Catalogue of ETDS in India

and INFLIBNET can assist them in formulating the policies

training and necessary funding. The ETD repositories should be

properly uploaded and maintained in order to provide accessibility

of research work. There is increased need of discussing these

problems globaly and UGC, INDEST consortium an open Access

Advocacy Group, ICSSR and National knowledge Commission.

are Playing key role in framing National policies for digitization of

theses and dissertations in India

Thank You !