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This document discusses electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) initiatives in India. It notes that nearly 300 universities and 100 R&D institutions in India grant PhD and master's degrees, with around 10,000 PhD theses accepted annually. Several universities and institutions have established ETD repositories, including IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, Vidyanidhi, and INFLIBNET's national union catalog of doctoral theses containing over 150,000 records. The document aims to conduct a comparative study of prominent Indian ETD repositories to analyze how they function, identify constraints, and propose a model for a national ETD repository that allows participation from all universities and institutions.
ETDs in india
- 1. ETDs in India:Towards a national repository with value added e-theses service Maitrayee Ghosh, PhD 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 2. ETD initiatives inIndia 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 3. E-theses and academia Thereare nearly three hundred universities and one hundred R&D institutions in India are granting PhD and masters degrees. It is reported that nearly 10,000 PhD theses are accepted by Universities. IITK maintains a bibliographic database (with abstract) named as Theses (old database) in addition to DSpace full text repository. IIT Delhi, Central Library has bibliographical list of PhD theses since 1966 to current, which includes nearly 2000 records accessible through web. The bibliographical database of IITB has nearly four thousand records Vidyanidhi’s multilingual database having 15,000 records in Hindi and 600 records in Kannada, more than 50,000 metadata of PhD, M.Phil, MA, M.Sc, M Tech, ME, MD, M Com., MBA, MCA, MLIS, M.Ed., theses and dissertations. INFLIBNET’s national union catalogue of doctoral theses includes 1,50000 bibliographical records of PhD theses accepted by nearly two hundred universities
- 4. ETD initiatives inIndia
- 5. Scope and objectives Althoughthere is sizeable number of ETD digital libraries in India and maintaining a steady growth but there is no single study undertaken which looks into how digital libraries of ETDs is functioning, what are the constraints in the process, and how it can be improved. It’s an attempt to do a comparative study of prominent digital libraries of ETDs with high level description of key aspects and proposed a model for national repository. The following two major points are discussed: A seamless ETD system for all universities/research institutions, which are already member of national networks or consortia viz. INDEST, INFLIBNET as well as libraries attached with colleges or small organizations with underdeveloped ICT infrastructure, can join either as a data provider or simply access the e-theses by paying membership fees. A model for national e-theses repository 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 6. Methodology and selectionof sample The research method used in this study is the triangulation of three different methods (1) e-mail questionnaire (2) face to face interview (3)content analysis of ETD websites Some of the points used as a basis for the selection of digital libraries for the evaluation are: The importance, relevance, credibility of the organization hosting the digital library Type of collection and users The access facilities, submission policies and user interface The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)/ Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) were consulted but they do not represent a complete picture of Indian ETD repositories as the registration is not mandatory. 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 7. Data analysis anddiscussion Age of ETD repositories in India 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 IIT Bom bay Vidyanidhi IISc IIAP IIT Kanpur IIT Delhi NIO 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 8. Data analysis anddiscussion State of ETD Submission policy Mandatory, 4, 45% , , 0%Not mandatory, 3, 33% , , 0% Not known, 2, 22% ETD Release policies: •Campus access full text-3 •Open access Bibliography & abstract- 1 •Open access only bibliography-3 •Open access full text-4 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 9. Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur Submission of TDs in IIT Kanpur 2006 2005 20042003 2002 2001 306 368 364295 321 318 Total number of theses-9333 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 10. Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 11. Indian Institute ofTechnology, Bombay 351 22 551 47 461 74 511 81 645 113 113 25 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Dissertations Theses 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 12. Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 13. Vidyanidhi Digital library Subjectwise distribution of ETDs in Vidyanidhi 542 1718 1987 38798 7840 Pure Science Applied Science Engineering and Technology Socialand Behavioural Science Artsand Humanities 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 14. INFLIBNET’s national onlineUnion catalogue of Doctoral Theses 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden.
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