Nation: Challenges and Leadership

Abdul Kalam, A.P.J. . Nation: Challenges and Leadership., 2008 In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) Mahatma Gandhi University Silver Jubilee Commemorative Volume. Mahatma Gandhi University Silver Jubilee Commemorative Volume, pp. 97-103. [Book chapter]

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Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) Open Access Digital Library of PhD Thesis is the first official, OA Archive of PhD dissertations hosted by any Indian university. It is an internal project initiated by the then librarian and the project got the guidance of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and language technology experts like K. H. Hussain. MGU was established in 1983 and has awarded about 1300 doctoral degrees during 1983-2008. In its Silver Jubilee Year 2008 University launched the Open Access Digital Archives of PhD Theses with thousand theses. MGU Collection of E-Theses are in English, Malayalam, Hindi and Sanskrit and for the first time in the country an indigenous package-Nitya DArch capable to process these languages was used. It was also the first package with capability of for full text search. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India on 9th November 2008, launched the MGU Open Access Repository of PhD thesis archive and in continuation gave the Mahatma Gandhi Silver Jubilee Lecture in which he stated that the project is an important step towards democratization of knowledge and that he was sure the model of digital archives created by MG University will be emulated by other Indian universities leading to transparency in the education system. This is a document depicting the historic event in India’s movement for Open Access to Research with pictures of the important persons involved in the project Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr. Jancy James, Dr. R. Raman Nair, Sri. Sreekumar etc.

Item type:	Book chapter
Keywords:	Open Access, India, PhD, Dissertation, Research
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information. B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society. B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
Depositing user:	Haridas N H
Date deposited:	22 Mar 2016 09:07
Last modified:	22 Mar 2016 09:07
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/29063

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