LIS research and its availability in

archives/repositories: a special case of

ShodhgangaDr. Sarika Sawant,

Senior Assistant Professor, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT

Women’s University, MumbaiPresentation: National Conference on Digital Libraries:

Re-shaping traditional Libraries into Next-Generation Libraries

NCDL-201416th – 17th January 2014

LIS RESEARCH the first Ph. D. in LIS was awarded to

Dr. D B Krishna Rao in 1958 by the University of Delhi

85 universities in India offer Master Degree in LIS

50 Indian universities have provision for guiding Ph D Scholars

OBJECTIVES to identify exclusive open access

thesis and dissertations repositories / archives at national and international level containing LIS thesis and dissertations

to study shodhganga about its no. of LIS thesis, date uploaded, gender of PhD holder, core topics of thesis etc.

FINDINGS: REPOSITORIES

ADT/ National Library of Australia’s Trove service ( http://trove.nla.gov.au)

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca)

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (http://www.ndltd.org)

The DART-Europe E-theses Portal (http://www.dart-europe.eu)

REPOSITORIES EThOS - UK Theses & Dissertations

from the British Library (http://ethos.bl.uk)

Shodhganga (http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/)

OpenThesis (http://www.openthesis.org/)

SHODHGANGA: A CASE STUDY

48 full text PhD thesis and dissertations from 22 universities

Number of LIS theses & Gender of the researcher

Core topic : Library management Date of uploading of the Theses:

2013 (24)

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