Shodhganga is the National ETD Repository of India maintained by INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork). UGC has made it mandatory for all the universities to deposit Ph. D. Theses to INFLIBNET for uploading to the repository since 2009. Apart from depositing the current theses to the repository, thousands of theses are lying in the university libraries in printed form and INFLIBNET is providing grants to the libraries for digitizing these theses for ultimately uploading to the national repository. However, all the universities are not contributing regularly or took the theses digitization project and thus the universities vary in their contributions due to different reasons. The present study aims to examine the theses uploaded by 74 universities of North India from the point of view of No. of universities signed MOU, type of university wise, university wise, discipline wise, year wise etc. major contributors. This paper will show clear status of the repository and will encourage the professionals to expedite their submissions and benefit libraries in imparting pinpointed research information to the researchers.

An Evaluative Study of ETDs Contributed by North Indian Universities to Shodhganga

Join us for ETD2021 (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) Conference in November 2021 in the United Arab Emirates.

Our theme, ‘Open scholarship in a post-pandemic world’ addresses the enhanced need for discoverability of research findings in a virtual world.

Since the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has constrained international travel and mobility, we have all come to rely on working in the virtual world. These developments have merely accelerated the existing trends towards more electronic and digital repositories.

Since 1991, the Networked Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) have contributed to research collaboration by identifying and aggregating digital repositories of theses and dissertations as a previously fugitive class of research resources.

 ETD 2021 Conference: Open scholarship in a post-pandemic world

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