Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). / Objectives: At present, libraries, worldwide, are making concerted efforts to
facilitate transformation of theses to e- forms. In India, too, ETD activities are
going on at an accelerated pace. The country has one of the largest educational
systems across the globe. There are 634 universities and 33023 colleges in the
country; every year more tan 11000 doctoral theses are awarded to the students.
The University Grants Commission, (India) notification, 2009 has mandated
submission of e-theses, by the research scholars, to the universities. All
universities are required to setup e- theses repository to facilitate e- submission,
archiving, maintenance and access to them.
The paper focuses on the progress of ETD initiatives taken in India. The data is
being collected through questionnaire method and whatever (information) is
available in public domain in order to find out the following:
1. Current / Ongoing projects –various universities involved in ETD projects
2. Content/Total collection
3. Coverage of subject areas
4. Objectives of ETD
5. Use of software
6. Metadata schema used
7. Competency of the staff to maintain ETD
8. Policies of the universities with regard to acquisition/acceptance of etheses.
9. Policies of Government/Research Council/University Grants
Commission(UGC)
The paper elaborates and compares the ETD initiatives taken in UK and
Australia with India.
Methods: Questionnaire and whatever information is available on websites of
the universities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/622617 |
| Date | 09 1900 |
| Creators | Tripathi, Manorama |
| Publisher | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Académico - UPC |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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