Shodhganga
Shodhganga : a reservoir of Indian theses is a digital repository of theses and dissertations submitted to Indian universities. It is maintained by INFLIBNET Centre which is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India located in the campus of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. As on 4 October 2016, as many as 293 universities in India have signed MoUs with the INFLIBNET Centre to participate in the Shodhganga project. A further 13 centrally funded technical institutions have also signed MoUs with the Centre to participate in the Shodhganga project. Th full text of all the documents submitted to Shodhganga are available to read and to download in open access to the academic community worldwide. The repository has a collection of 1,05,510 theses and 3485 synopses. The top five universities in terms of the numbers of theses submitted are Panjab University, Aligarh Muslim University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Karnatak University and Anna University. The Shodhganga repository was created consequent on the University Grants Commission making it mandatory through regulations issued in June 2009 for all universities to submit soft copies of PhD theses and MPhil dissertations to the UGC for hosting in the INFLIBNET.[1][2]
Those universities that have signed MoUs with INFLIBNET Centre are required to identify a senior academic to serve as a University Coordinator to liaise with the University and the Centre. Responsibilities of the Coordinator include timely submission of soft copies of PhD theses submitted to the University to Shodhganga and to verify the correctness and completeness of these soft copies.
It has been observed that "Shodhganga is an important Indian initiative and will facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations too the world academic community. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally maintained digital repositories will not only ensure easy access and archiving of these but will also help in raising the quality and standard of research."[3]
The INFLIBNET Centre is also maintaining another repository known by the name Shodhgangotri which is a repository of the synopses and research proposals of the PhD programmes in Indian universities. It has been described as a repository of the details of Indian Research in Progress.
References
- ↑ The Gazette of India dated 5 July 2016. "University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards an d Procedure for Award of M.PHIL./PH.D Degrees) Regulations, 2016" (PDF). Govt. of India. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ Manoj Kumar K, Jagdish Arora, and Suboohi S. "Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations project, Shodhganga, a platform for improving quality of research in Indian Universities". ETD 2016 "Data and Dissertations", 19th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations 11-13 Jul 2016 Lille (France). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ Rasmita Mohanty, Ranjit Kumar Das (2014). DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries Volume 1 of First edition. Allied Publishers. p. 113. ISBN 9788184249019.
External links
Additional reading
- "UGC Guidelines for Shodhganga" (PDF). University Grants Commission (India). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- Dhanavandan, S and Tamizhchelvan, M (December 2013). "Development of Shodhganga Repository for Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Tamil Nadu: A Study". International Research : Journal of Library and Information Science. 3 (4). Retrieved 16 October 2016.