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Shodhganga-Repository for Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Boon for Researchers

Universities are highly responsible for developing new theories through innovative research studies in all around the globe. Students and scholars are putting their best efforts to produce new facts and principles in these centres of higher studies. In India we have around 350 universities and every year almost more than 12000 PhDs are being produced by these universities. Avoiding duplication of research work is a serious matter of concern to all nations. Innovations in ICTs become a boon to avoid duplication as well as utilization of these studies. An electronic submission of these dissertations and theses are known as ETDs. Modern information and communication technology (ICT) acts as an effective intervener for paradigm shifting from closed access theses and dissertations to open access electronic theses and dissertations (ETD). The present study brings out grate opportunity to the library professionals to implement makes the initiatives to create the MoU from Shodhganga from INFLIBNET for the purpose of submission of electronic theses and dissertations. Nearly 202 universities from 29 States of India are registered in Shodhganga as on 25 th march 2015. It is highlighted one that among the 29 States of India, 32 universiti es from Tamil Nadu are registered in the ETD repository scheme of INFLIBNET. It is encourage one that within three months of 2015, 16 universities are register MoU with INFLIBNET for Shodhganga and it may break the earlier records of registration within end of the 2015. Among the 29 States, 202 universities were signed MoU, It is noticed that 54 universities are registered in 2013, 51 universities in 2012, 38 universities registered in 2011 and 10 universities registered in 2010, as on March 2015, 16 universities are registered MoU with INFLIBNET for Shodhganga. It understands from the table that 14 Government universities and 18 private universities from Tamil Nadu are register with Shodhganga. In the second position, 17 government and 7 private universities from Maharashtra registered for Shodhganga. Among the top 25 Indian university in these list, 5 state universities like such as follow as Anna university, Periyar University, Bharathidasan University, Manonmanian Sundarnar University and Bharathiar University are submitting more ETD to Shodhganga.

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Theses and dissertations have always been one of the most important types of grey literature for the scholarly world. However, there has always been a debate on their accessibility issues. In majority of cases, the usage of these documents is limited only to the University Level. The submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format has increased the opportunity for the user community to have access to the knowledge embedded in these works through various national and international e-theses & dissertations repositories. In India, UGC Regulations 2009, made it mandatory for every doctoral researcher to submit his/ her thesis in electronic format to the university concerned which are then deposited in INFLIBNET’s Shodhganga: a reservoir of Indian theses. The present study reports the status of ETD contributions of Universities of Maharashtra.

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The present study attempts to evaluate the contributions made by the central universities of Northeast India to the open access repository of Shodhganga by INFLIBNET. Out of total 10 central universities of Northeast India, 9 Universities have already signed with MoU of Shodhganga repository and all are contributing their theses and dissertations to this project. North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) made the first initiative to signed MoU with Shodhganga and it has the highest numbers of 2,093 contributions in the repository and ranked 1st among all the central universities of Northeast India. Department of Education of North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) has the highest numbers of contribution in the repository of Shodhganga by INFLIBNET. English was the most preferred language for the theses and dissertations of the central universities of Northeast India.

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The deposition of ETD’s by the universities of Kerala into Shodhganga is counted in this article. Data for the study were extracted from Shodhganga as on 10th May 2019. The analysis revealed that out of 18 universities in Kerala, 7 universities contribute to Shodhganga ETD repository with a total of 10105 theses. University of Kerala and Mahatma Gandhi University with 2974 and 2769 theses respectively were the top universities to deposit RTD’s onto the repository. The study is useful to know the number of universities which are in line with the ‘UGCMinimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D. Degree, Regulation, 2009’ which mandates uploading of electronic versions of theses into the Shodhganga repository for the benefit of the scholars in particular and the taxpayers across the nation in general.

India does not have a central repository in which theses are stored from various PhDs across different disciplines. This has led to various kinds of problems from lack of visibility for Indian research to duplication, repetition and even plagiarism in some cases. Most countries have created an online central database where universities as well as researchers post their theses and dissertations. With the proliferation of the Web, this has become a global showcase of research capabilities of each country. Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. The UGC vide its Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of. Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1st June 2009 provides for submission of electronic version of theses and dissertation by the researchers in universities in Shodhganga maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre. Universities that sign MoU with the INFLIBNET Centre and mandate submission of electronic version of their theses and dissertation to Shodhganga may get financial assistance from the UGC for digitizing their back-files of theses. Besides, UGC may also provide financial assistance to the INFLIBNET Centre for subscription to software tools that detect plagiarized portion of theses and dissertations. In time to come, ETDs would become more commonplace, grant-giving agencies and accreditation bodies like AICTE, UGC and NAAC would make judgments regarding innovative universities by taking note of their initiatives such as ETDs and IRs. This article aim to explain the purpose and approach of

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Theses and dissertation are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. Theses and dissertations remain an untapped and under-utilized asset, leading to unnecessary duplication and repetition that, in effect, is the antitheses of research and wastage of huge resources, both human and financial. In this paper examines the Electronic thesis and Dissertation (ETDs) deposited at INFLIBNET Shodhganga project by Indian Universities. It is found that 99994 + theses have been deposited on various disciplines by 260 universities. The 3485 synopses were uploaded in the Shodhganga project. In this paper analysed top ten universities contributing electronic theses, year wise contribution and top viewed theses in the database.

On the banks of Shodhganga: analysis of the academic genealogy graph of an Indian ETD repository

Published: 18 May 2023
Volume 128 , pages 3879–3914, ( 2023 )

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Dhananjay Kumar 1 ,
Plaban Kumar Bhowmick 1 ,
Sumana Dey 2 &
Debarshi Kumar Sanyal 3

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Academic genealogy graphs capture information about the lineage of researchers, encode how knowledge flows from advisors to proteges, and shed light on the birth and evolution of disciplines. In this paper, we study the academic genealogy graph/network (AGN) in Shodhganga which is the Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) database. We have disambiguated the names of the researchers in Shodhganga and constructed the Shodhganga-AGN, which we have analyzed with topological metrics proposed in the literature on general graphs as well as that on genealogy networks. The metrics studied have been able to identify the institutes and researchers that have played a significant role in the development of the Indian higher education system. The largest connected component of Shodhganga-AGN consists of 1356 researchers and 1437 advisor–advisee relationships. The component is dominated by researchers from science and is affiliated primarily with three institutions. We have also studied subgraphs in the genealogy network to identify supervision patterns, and found that most of the subgraph instances connect researchers within a single institution or subject. Thus, our study is a detailed insightful analysis of the academic genealogy of researchers indexed in Shodhganga, and captures the decades-old research ecosystem of India, as expressed through the formal advisor–advisee relationships in Indian universities.

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Algorithm 2-In all the above cases, we have imposed the natural constraint that the advisor’s (who is potentially the same person as the advisee) date of thesis submission to be earlier than the advisee’s thesis submission date. In the case where the number of candidates (advisee) to merge with the advisor is greater than one, we further check them across the available attributes to find the best candidate

Algorithm 3-Initially students with same names and having same department and institute are assigned the same index even if they are referring to different individuals. In that scenario, if advisor information (advisor thesis) is available, we are using that to find the most likely student among all the students (with the same name) associated with him/her. After that, group the remaining students by thesis title and assign them with different indices (Assumption: very less likely that two students with the same name and in the same institute and department has different thesis titles associated with same advisor)

Algorithm 4-Applicable if multiple advisors advised the student (multiple records exist, same student name has variation due to human error (check Appendix Table 2 )), or duplicate records exist, or wrongly combined thesis title. The function merges students with similar names (with slight variation) having the same thesis title. If student names are different across the same thesis index (similarity value less than threshold value), then there is a chance that two different thesis indices are merged wrongly. Therefore, we will not change the student indices

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Top researchers in shodhganga-agn based on different genealogical metrics, institute abbreviation, nirf ranking, and ddc subject code with subject name, extracted subgraphs structures from shodhganga-agn.

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Engaging in research work takes patience and determination of the research fellow. to ensure a steady ad smooth flow of research mhrd has launched shodhganga which is a phenomenal collection of thesis, research papers from around the world..

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"Shodhganga" is a digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by INFLIBNET Centre. As the name suggests “Shodh" is a Sanskrit word for research and discovery and "Ganga" is the holiest, largest and longest of all rivers in Indian subcontinent. Shodhganga denotes a huge reservoir of research and discovery (intellectual property) for the academicians maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre.

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Shodhganga is a huge reservoir of Indian Theses and holds ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers.

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Shodhganga: a reservoir of indian theses.

Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. Theses and dissertations remain an un-tapped and under-utilized asset, leading to unnecessary duplication and repetition that, in effect, is the anti-theses of research and wastage of huge resources, both human and financial.

The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1st June 2009 mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories, not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research. This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the “poor visibility” and the “unseen” factor in research output. As per the Regulation, the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertation (called “ Shodhganga “), accessible to all institutions and universities, is assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre.

Shodhganga” is the name coined to denote digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre. The word “Shodh” originates from Sanskrit and stands for research and discovery. The “Ganga” is the holiest, largest and longest of all rivers in Indian subcontinent. The Ganga is the symbol of India’s age-long culture and civilisation, everchanging, ever-flowing, ever-loved and revered by its people, and has held India’s heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. Shodhganga stands for the reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre.

The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET is set-up using an open source digital repository software called DSpace developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in partnership between Hewlett- Packard (HP). The DSpace uses internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards. Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers.

DSpace supports “Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting” (OAI-PMH) and uses a qualified version of the Dublin Core schema for its metadata. The INFLIBNET Centre, promotes setting-up of institutional and ETD repositories in member universities using OAI-PMH complaint software. A number of member universities have already set-up their institutional and ETD repositories using either DSpace or other OAI-PMH compliant Institutional Repository software. It would be possible for universities having sufficient network and computing infrastructure to maintain their own ETD repositories wherein their research scholars could deposit e-versions of their theses and dissertations. Moreover, they can use Shodhganga to host their theses as backup archives. INFLIBNET Centre, besides maintaining the Central ETD Repository (Shodhganga) would also deploy a central server to harvest the metadata from all such ETD repositories distributed in universities with an aim to provided unified access to theses and dissertations through its harvesting server.

Shodhganga replicates academic structure of each University in terms of Departments/ Centres/ Colleges each University has to facilitate ease of navigation. This structure facilitates research scholars from universities to deposit their theses in the respective Department / Centre / College. As shown in the Fig 1, option for simple search and advance search are available on the home page along with browsing facility through universities and departments. The Centre is also developing a semantic web-based interface to facilitate subject-based browsing, navigation, search and retrieval of content available in the repository.

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[Free] Shodhganga PhD Thesis in Education PDF 2023

Are you a research scholar in the field of education looking for a Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF? Look no further! This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to access and download these theses.

For research scholars pursuing a PhD in education, access to high-quality research papers and theses is critical. Shodhganga, the digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), is an excellent resource for scholars looking to access PhD theses in education. Shodhganga is an initiative of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and is a great tool for research scholars looking to access and download PhD theses in education. In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of finding and downloading a Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF.

Table of Contents

Why Shodhganga is a great resource for research scholars

A. high-quality research papers and theses:.

Shodhganga offers a plethora of high-quality research papers and theses in the field of education, making it an excellent resource for research scholars. These theses are written by experienced researchers and scholars, and are thoroughly reviewed and approved by their respective universities. Moreover, Shodhganga also publishes research papers and theses that have been awarded the prestigious UGC-recognized research degrees. This ensures that research scholars have access to the best quality research papers and theses to aid them in their own research work.

b. Easy access and downloading of research papers:

One of the significant benefits of Shodhganga is its user-friendly interface, which allows research scholars to easily access and download research papers and theses. This ease of access makes it possible for research scholars to obtain the information they need quickly, without any hassle. Furthermore, the ability to download research papers and theses from Shodhganga also allows scholars to work offline, which can be especially helpful when conducting research in areas where internet connectivity is not reliable.

c. Wide range of subjects covered:

Another reason why Shodhganga is a great resource for research scholars is the wide range of subjects it covers. From education to science, technology, humanities, and social sciences, Shodhganga has a vast collection of research papers and theses in various fields. This means that research scholars from different areas of study can access the information they need to further their research work. Additionally, the range of subjects available on Shodhganga allows for interdisciplinary research, which can lead to new insights and discoveries.

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Steps to Download a Shodhganga PhD Thesis in Education PDF

To download a Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education in PDF format, you can follow these steps:

Go to the Shodhganga website ( https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ ).

In the “Select Field” drop-down menu, select “Subject” to limit your search to Education-related theses.
In the “Select Language” drop-down menu, select the language of the thesis you want to download.
Click on the “Search” button.
A list of theses matching your search criteria will be displayed. Browse through the list and click on the title of the thesis you want to download.
The thesis page will open, and you will see the abstract of the thesis, along with information such as the author’s name, university, and year of submission.
To download the full thesis, click on the “Download Full Text” button on the right side of the page.
You will be prompted to accept the terms and conditions of using the thesis. After accepting the terms and conditions, click on the “Download” button.
The thesis will be downloaded to your device in PDF format.

Note: Some theses may not be available for immediate download due to copyright or other restrictions. In such cases, you may need to contact the author or the university for access to the full text.

Tips for Effective Search

Use specific keywords related to your topic or author’s name.
Use quotation marks around phrases for exact match search.
Use the minus sign (-) before a keyword to exclude it from the search results.
Use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard for variations of a word.
Use the double asterisk (**) to search within the subfield.

Tips for Effective Download

Check if the thesis is available for download.
Use a stable internet connection for faster download.
Ensure your device has enough storage to save the PDF file.

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FAQs: Get Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF

Q1.What is Shodhganga?

A1.Shodhganga is a digital repository of Indian ETDs, including PhD theses in education. It is an initiative of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

Q2. Is it legal to download Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF?

A2.Yes, it is legal to download PhD theses from Shodhganga. The theses are uploaded with the permission of the authors and are freely available for download.

Q3. Can I access Shodhganga from outside India?

A3.Yes, Shodhganga can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Q4. Is Shodhganga free to use?

A4. Yes, Shodhganga is a free platform for accessing electronic theses and dissertations from Indian universities.

Q5. Can I access Shodhganga from outside India?

A5. Yes, Shodhganga can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Q6. What is the format of the Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF?

A6. The format of the Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF is a standard PDF file.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, accessing and downloading a Shodhganga PhD thesis in Education PDF is not as difficult as it may seem. By following the steps and tips outlined in this article, you can easily find and download the thesis you need. Shodhganga is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in Education, and we hope this guide will help you make the most of it.