Summary
Shodhganga : a reservoir of Indian theses (Sanskrit: Shodh, transl. research and discovery; Ganga, the river) is a digital repository of theses and dissertations submitted to universities in India.
| Shodhganga | |
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| Location | India |
| Type | Digital repository, digital library |
| Established | 2011 |
| Reference to legal mandate | UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.PHIL./PH.D Degrees) Regulations, 2016 |
| Branches | N/A |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Thesis and dissertations from 544 universities of India |
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| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Free digital access, online and downloadable |
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| Parent organisation | INFLIBNET Centre, University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministry of Education, Government of India |
| Website | shodhganga |
About edit
It is maintained by INFLIBNET Centre which is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It was initially located in the campus of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. As of January 2013,[update] INFLIBNET Centre has moved to its new institutional building at infocity, Gandhinagar,[1] capital of Gujarat. And the new Director of the INFLIBNET is Prof Devika P Madalli former professor of DRTC , ISI Banglore.
By December 2023, as many as 739 universities in India have signed MoUs with the INFLIBNET Centre to participate in the Shodhganga project. The 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 over 500,000 theses and 13000 synopses. 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.[2][3]
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 "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."[4]
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.
License edit
The submissions made to Shodhganga are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
References edit
- ^ "INFLIBNET Centre – Official website". Retrieved 22 Apr 2018.
- ^ The Gazette of India dated 5 July 2016. "University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.PHIL./PH.D Degrees) Regulations, 2016" (PDF). Govt. of India. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
Further reading edit
- Shodhganga
- "UGC Guidelines for Shodhganga" (PDF). University Grants Commission (India). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- Dhanavandan, S; 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.
- Shodhgangotri
- Sengupta, Shantashree (2013). "Current Status of ShodhGangotri: Repository of Indian Research in Progress". Library Philosophy and Practice (E-journal). University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
- NingombamIroshini; Singh, Ch. Ibohal (2020-12-01). "Metrics of Research in Progress in Indian Universities@ShodhGangotri". Second International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics. 2: 36–42. doi:10.6025/stm/2020/2/36-42. ISSN 2582-6956. S2CID 236846681.
External links edit
- Home page of Shodhganga
- Home page of ShodhGangotri