Shodhganga

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Shodhganga or Shodhganga @ INFLIBNET is a repository for archiving and making available dissertations that have been prepared at universities in India . The name is a made-up word from Shodh ( Sanskrit शोध for 'research') and Ganga ( Hindi गंगा for the holy river Ganges ). The Ganges is symbolic of the millennia-old spiritual and intellectual culture of India. Shodhganga is operated by the INFLIBNET Center. INFLIBNET (an acronym for Inf ormation and Lib rary Net work ) is a facility of the Indian University Grants Commission and is in Gandhinagar ( Gujarat localized). The task of INFLIBNET is to modernize and coordinate the university libraries in India, among other things through the establishment of a national high-speed data network. In its function, Shodhganga corresponds to the earlier project and the coordination office DissOnline (from 1998) in Germany, whose tasks have been completely taken over by the German National Library since 2012 .

development

On July 11, 2009 the University Grants Commission Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation) came into force in 2009 . The aim of this regulation was to set minimum standards for dissertations at Indian universities with regard to admission, supervision and examinations. In addition, academic institutions at which dissertations are prepared have been obliged to provide INFLIBNET with an electronic copy of the dissertation.

The following main arguments were or are generally given for the creation of central repositories:

  1. increased visibility and accessibility of dissertations - in 2006 only two Indian universities were obliged to post dissertations in electronic form on the internet,
  2. better detection of plagiarism ,
  3. improved exchange of research results through easier access,
  4. Support of the Open Access concept by making research results freely accessible to everyone.

As of July 5, 2016, more than 280 Indian universities had signed a declaration of intent to participate and 95,200 dissertations from more than 260 universities had been uploaded to Shodhganga. As of June 1, 2017, there were 318 universities.

Universities that have signed a letter of intent, by state, as of June 1, 2017
No. State / UT 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 total
1 Andhra Pradesh 2 2 2 4th 2 1 3 16
2 Arunachal Pradesh 1 1
3 Assam 3 2 2 7th
4th Bihar 1 1 2
5 Chhattisgarh 2 1 1 1 5
5 Delhi 2 2 1 4th 1 4th 14th
6th Goa 1 1
7th Gujarat 1 4th 6th 1 7th 5 24
8th Haryana 1 2 2 2 4th 1 12
9 Himachal Pradesh 3 3 1 2 5 14th
10 Jammu and Kashmir 1 1 1 1 2 1 7th
11 Jharkhand 1 3 4th
12 Karnataka 3 4th 4th 2 7th 1 21st
13 Kerala 2 2 2 1 1 8th
14th Madhya Pradesh 2 2 1 3 3 4th 15th
15th Maharashtra 1 4th 5 7th 3 6th 3 29
16 Manipur 1 1
17th Meghalaya 1 2 3
18th Mizoram 1 1
19th Nagaland 1 1
20th Odisha 1 1 3 2 7th
XX Pondicherry 1 1
21st Punjab 1 1 2 1 3 8th
22nd Rajasthan 1 1 5 4th 4th 7th 5 2 29
23 Sikkim 1 1
24 Tamil Nadu 2 8th 8th 7th 6th 4th 2 37
25th Telangana 1 1 2
26th Tripura 1 1
27 Uttar Pradesh 4th 4th 5 3 5 5 1 27
28 Uttarakhand 2 1 2 3 1 9
29 West Bengal 2 1 1 2 2 2 10
total 10 38 51 54 33 60 54 18th 318

The majority of the uploaded dissertations are written in English, but the language is not mandatory and there are numerous dissertations in Tamil , Hindi , Malayalam etc. The repository can be accessed via the Internet. You can search for titles, keywords, authors, language, universities or years. An analysis of the number of hits from April to November 2015 showed that 83.5% of the hits to the repository came from India and 16.5% from abroad. Among the latter, 5.9% came from the United States, 0.7% from the People's Republic of China, and 0.56% from Japan. Germany was in fourth place with 0.48%. Within India, the accesses came mainly from the states of Gujarat (17.8%), Tamil Nadu 13.4%, Maharashtra (12.8%), Karnataka (10.4%) and Delhi (9.5%).

The URKUND anti-plagiarism software has been made available to the participating universities centrally by INFLIBNET since 2015 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hindi term शोध-प्रबन्ध, shodh-prabandh , freely translated “treatment of research”, means “dissertation”.
  2. ^ DissOnline and online dissertations at the German National Library. German National Library, April 29, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.PHIL./PH.D Degrees) Regulations, 2009 . In: University Grants Commission (Ed.): The Gazette of India . No. 28 , July 11, 2009, p. 4049-4056 (Hindi, English, online [PDF]).
  4. ↑ a b c Manoj Kumar K, Jagdish Arora, Suboohi S: Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations project, Shodhganga, a platform for improving quality of research in Indian Universities . Ed .: ETD 2016 "Data and Dissertations", 19th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. (English, online - conference lecture).
  5. ↑ Subrata Biswas: Shodhganga repository for electronic theses and dissertations of the universities in West Bengal: A study . In: International Journal of Applied Research . tape 3 , no. 1 , 2017, ISSN  2394-5869 , p. 318-322 (English).
  6. ↑ Manoj Kumar K: Tutorial on Urkund prepared for Indian Universities by INFLIBNET Center. August 21, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2017 (English, YouTube video (URKUND tutorial)).

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