lis research and its availability in archives/repositories: a special case of shodhganga
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Presentation at National Conference on Digital Libraries: Re-shaping traditional Libraries into Next-Generation Libraries NCDL-2014 16th – 17th January 2014TRANSCRIPT
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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Chandrashekara, M., & Ramasesh, C R. (2009). Library and Information Science Research in India. Asia –Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice. Retrieved from www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/a-liep2009/proceedings/Papers/a65.pdf
Koli, V. (2013). Research trends in LIS education. MLISc Seminar report. SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai
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