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.
7-721: 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, INFLIBNET Centre has moved to its new institutional building at infocity, Gandhinagar , 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
14-620: Is a major National Programme initiated by the University Grants Commission (India) in March 1991 as a project under the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). It became an independent Inter-University Centre in June 1996. INFLIBNET runs a nationwide high speed data network connecting university libraries and other information centres. INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India using
21-666: Is an Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (India) under the Ministry of Education (India) . The organisation promotes and facilitates libraries and information resources for Indian further education. Its premises are in Gandhinagar , Gujarat. Shodhganga , the digital repository of theses and dissertations submitted to universities in India is maintained by INFLIBNET Centre. INFLIBNET also performed an important role as an online learning resources by HRD Ministry during COVID-19 lockdown in India . INFLIBNET
28-724: 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
35-685: The UGC for hosting in the INFLIBNET. 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
42-740: The quality and standard of research." 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. The submissions made to Shodhganga are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). INFLIBNET Centre INFLIBNET Centre ( Information and Library Network Centre )
49-675: The state-of-art technologies for the optimum utilisation of information. In 2022, University Grants Commission (India) launched an initiative with the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre to assist research scholars and their supervisors in conducting their research. The Shodhganga portal of Inflibnet Centre displays the achievement of the competing universities with a detailed index of number of theses contributed by several departments of study. Calcutta University , Savitribai Phule Pune University and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have become largest contributors of theses to
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