Bibliographic control of Indian Ph. D Theses : INFLIBNET’s contribution

Vijayakumar, J. K., Hosamani, H. G. and Murthy, T. A. V. Bibliographic control of Indian Ph. D Theses : INFLIBNET’s contribution., 2003 . In 5th MANLIBNET Convention, Jamshedpur (India), 6-8 March 2003. [Conference paper]

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By imparting higher education, conducting research and interacting with individuals and institutions at different levels within and outside India, our universities have been major contributors to the generation and dissemination of knowledge. Being one of the significant contributions to the growth of knowledge, research work produced in the form of Ph.D. theses is the unique vital information sources. It is estimated that nearly 8000-10000 Ph.D. theses are produced every year by all the universities put together in India. Being a vital source of information, Ph. D theses have been attracting a great interest from academic and research communities in the country and abroad. INFLIBNET has therefore made an effort to collect, organise and make available this valuable information over the network. The Centre is also developing union bibliographic databases of Books, and Serials available in Indian Universities, and non-bibliographic databases of Indian Projects and Experts in various fields. All databases can be accessed through the website http://www.inflibnet.ac.in. This paper makes an attempt to give an overview of activities carried out by INFLIBNET Centre for the development of Theses Database and its online access. It discusses the purpose, objectives, benefits, and various steps in development, access points, and search methodology of this online database with illustrative examples, in detail. It also points out the drawbacks and future plans for making theses resources available in Indian Universities available on the Web.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Library Automation, Union Databases, Theses, Dissertations, India, Online Databases
Subjects:	H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HB. Gray literature. I. Information treatment for information services > IA. Cataloging, bibliographic control.
Depositing user:	Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar
Date deposited:	19 Feb 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7225

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VIJAYAKUMAR, J K and MURTHY, T A V (2001). Need of a Digital Library for Indian Theses and Dissertations: a model on par with the ETD initiatives at International Level. In Urs, Shalini R, Rajashekhar, TB and Raghavan, KS; ed. Digital Libraries. Conference Papers of the 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL-2001), Bangalore, India. 10-12 December 2001: 384-390

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