Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty Fulbright Research Fellow 2005 2006 Chief Librarian Bose Institute, Calcu

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Dr. Arun Kumar ChakrabortyFulbright Research
Fellow 2005 2006Chief Librarian Bose
Institute, Calcutta, INDIA

• akc_at_bic.boseinst.ernet.in

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• ETD in India

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• The Educational System of India

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Education System in India
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The Educational System of India

• Doctoral thesis being generated in India is
  estimated to be around 18,000 annually ---
  approx.

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Vidyanidhi

• (http//www.vidyanidhi.org.in/home/index.asp)
• (Meaning 'Treasure of Knowledge' in Sanskrit) is
  India's premier Digital library initiative to
  facilitate the creation, archiving and accessing
  of doctoral theses. (S.Urs)
• Vidyanidhi is an information infrastructure, a
  digital library, a portal of resources, tools and
  facilities for doctoral research in India.
  Vidyanidhi is envisioned to evolve as a national
  repository and a consortium for e-theses through
  participation and partnership with universities,
  academic institutions and other stake holders.

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Vidyanidhi

• Vidyanidhi offers Search in Indian Languages
   Kannada Hindi
• . Vidyanidhi (have now
• 95,000 metadata records and
• 2000 full text)
• Currently 15,000 records in Hindi and 600 records
  in Kannada
• expanding database in other Indian Languages

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Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal

• http//www.vidyanidhi.org.in/home/index.asp
• Library and Information Science Education

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ETDs India

• Indian Institute of Science ---- digital
  repository of Theses and Dissertations of
  Bangalore, India.
• It complements ePrints_at_IISc, the research
  publications repository of IISc. Started in
  2002.
• Number of theses in etd_at_IISc 143

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ETDS India

• The IIT Mumbai has established electronic
  submission of theses and dissertations (ETD)
  since 1999 as a signatory to the "Networked
  Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
  (NDLTD)" initiative, with the Virginia Tech
  University as leader of this worldwide project.
• All M.Tech / M.Des. dissertations and since 2000
  onwards Ph.D. theses submitted to the IIT Bombay
  are in electronic format in addition to its
  printed copy.

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(INFLIBNET)

• Development, managing and updating of Union
  databases is one of the major activities of the
  INFLIBNET. Nine databases have been developed and
  are continuously growing in terms of quality and
  quantity. Following is the list of databases
• Books - Represents holding of participant
  libraries under the programme
• Theses - Doctoral theses submitted to various
  Indian universities till date
• Serial Holdings - Holdings information of various
  university libraries about the serial
• Current Serials - Currently subscribed journals
  by the universities
• Secondary Serials/CD-ROMs - Holdings information
  of the universities
• DDC Serials - Currently subscribed journals by
  the six universities identified as DDC
• Experts - Useful data about specialists in
  various disciplines
• Research Projects - Information about ongoing
  projects
• NISSAT Project - Experts Database (Science
  Technology)

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ETD 2005

• UGC, established by an act of parliament in 1956,
  coordinates and monitors the higher education
  system in India and provides grants to the
  universities and colleges.
• Regulations  
• UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of
  Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format)
  Regulations, 2005 (To be Published in Gazette of
  India)
• NOTIFICATION
• In exercise of powers conferred by clause (e)
  (g) of sub-section (1) of Section 26 read with
  Section 14 of the University Grants Commission
  Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants
  Commission hereby makes the UGC (Submission of
  Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in
  Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005

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ETD 2005

• National Conference on DL and ETD)
  conferenceheld at Kolkota during Jan 6-8,2005
  (www.jadavpur.edu/conference/ETD20Confer
  ence20brochure.doc)