Miss Manisha R. Khakre
Librarian, Arts, Commerce & Science College,
Arvi , Dist. Wardha, Maharashtra, India
E-mail ID- ms.manisha_khakre@rediffmail.com

concept of ETD creation of ETD
Benefits of ETD
Merits of ETD
Globle Status Of ETD Repository
ETD initiatives in India
Shodhganga ETD Repository
Role of Universities and Librarians

 ETD repositories are becoming a major resource for information in all subjects and ETD repositories are providing institutional knowledge available online and thereby increasing it’s visibility and use.
ETD are the important source for the researcher in the world. many higher education institutes are actively engaged in introducing ETD repositories at national as well as international level.

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More access to research
Less expense to authors and libraries per cost
No physical shelf space
Lower cataloging costs.
Better presentation of research
Addition of multimedia files
More dynamic presentation of data hyperlinks
Programs and code
Other format support.

Following are the merits of ETD which are given by Bandra
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To improve Students to convey a research message through the use of multimedia and hypermedia technologies.
To improve graduate education by allowing students to Produce electronic documents, use digital libraries and understand issue in publishing.
To increase the availability of student research for scholars and preserve it electronically.
To lower the cost of submitting and handling theses and dissertation.
To empower universities to unlock their information resources.
To advance digital library Technology.

 For creation of ETD word processor software vis. Ms-Word,
Latex etc.used The theses or dissertation are submitted as a
PDF (portable Document Format) file. Dspace, Reprints ,
Fedora etc.digital softwares has been broadest applications.
Today open Archives initiative protocol for metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is an interoperability framework based on HTTP . Metadata tags such as SGML/XML and MARK UP language that assign unique identifiers to identify items with in a repository

The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for
Award of M.Phill./Ph.D. Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1 st
June 2009 provides for submission of electronic version of theses and dissertation with an aim to facilitate open access to
Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community worldwide. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories will not only ensure access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research.
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Global Status of repositories
Fig 1- Growth of Records per year from 1990 to 2013 retrieved from ROAR dated on
05/03/2013

ETD REPOSITORIES IN INDIA
Repository name catalysis datiabase
CMFRI Digital Repository
Digital repository of Cochin University of Science & Technology
DigitalLibrary@CUSAT
DRS at National Institute Of Oceanography
DSpace @ GGSIPU dspace @ sdmcet
DSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
DSpace at NCRA
DSpace at Vidyanidhi
Dspace@NITR
DSpace@TU
DU Eprint Archive
Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science
Eprint@NML
Eprints@IARI
EPrints@IITD
Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository
Institutional Repository of Intectual Contributions of Delhi
Technological University
Num. Recs.
2327
8921
2296
5293
4213
135
60
526
84
5482
1779
2067
170
1844
5486
230
2141
1010
5724
841
Software
EPrints
EPrints
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
DSpace
EPrints
DSpace
EPrints
EPrints
DSpace
EPrints
DSpace
DSpace

Repository name
Kautilya Digital Repository at IGIDR
Knowledge Repository Open Network
Librarians' Digital Library
Mahatma Gandhi University Theses
Online
National Aerospace Laboratories
Institutional Repository
ShodhGanga: A resevior of Indian
Theses
Country
India
Num.
Recs.
Software
207 DSpace
India
India
India
671
465
1122
DSpace
DSpace
Nitya
India
India
5354
5614
EPrints
DSpace

Up to 05/03/2013 There are 107 Indian Universities signed MOU and 5600 theses uploaded on the Shodhganga ETD repository
Fig-3 Home page of Shodhaganga: A reservoir of Indian Theses

Top Contributing Universities in Shodhganga
Name of University
1) Cochin University of
Science and Technology
2) Mahatma Gandhi
University
3) Podicherry University
4) University of Hydra bad
5) University of Pune
URL www.cusatoac.in
www.mguniversity.
ac.in
No of Thesis
1001
938 www.pondiuni.edu
.in
www.uohyd.ac.in
www.unipune.ac.in
679
416
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University
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Sr. No. Department
Theses submitted by Sant Gadge Baba
Amaravati, University
1 Business Administration &
Management
2 Chemistry
3 Education
4 Engineering and Technology
5 English
6 Mathematics
7 Physical Education
No. of Theses
3
2
6
1
1
1
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At University level well-equipped computer labs must be put in place to provide, reducing the time from acceptance to public access, and, of course, one ETD can have multiple simultaneous users
Library community must take initiatives in the maintenance of ETD seriously.
It is essential for librarians as information professionals to take the initiatives to make progress in this crucial area and librarian should take opportunity to attend workshops and conferences to gain knowledge of ETD repositories.

INFLIBNET is now taking steps in this direction. INFLIBNET starting developing a National Union Catalogue of ETDS in India and INFLIBNET can assist them in formulating the policies training and necessary funding. The ETD repositories should be properly uploaded and maintained in order to provide accessibility of research work. There is increased need of discussing these problems globaly and UGC, INDEST consortium an open Access
Advocacy Group, ICSSR and National knowledge Commission.
are Playing key role in framing National policies for digitization of theses and dissertations in India