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| What is Vidyanidhi? |
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- an Information Infrastructure
- a Digital Library
- a Portal
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- Tools
- Facilities
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- creating
- Accessing
- Archiving
- procuring
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Doctorial Thesis |
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Vision |
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| Digitally
enabled scholarship – promoting knowledge, creativity and
scholarship through Digital Libraries |
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| Vidyanidhi
Mission |
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| To
build a digital archive of Indian Doctoral Theses |
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Vidyanidhi
Goals |
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Develop
and build an Online Archive/repository of doctoral
theses and dissertations submitted to Indian
Universities by forming a consortium of select Indian
universities |
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| Advocacy
and promotion of Digitally Enabled Scholarship through
meetings, liaison, conferences and workshops, training
programmes |
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| Education
and Training of scholars/information /knowledge
workers. |
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| Services
from Vidyanidhi |
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| Vidyanidhi
Offers |
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| Indian Theses Database – growing and continuously updated
- Access to more than 1,00,000 Indian theses metadata
- Being Unicode compliant, it includes 1500 records in Kannada
(for Kannada Theses) and 4000 records in
Hindi Language (for theses in Hindi)
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A digital library of Indian doctoral theses
- Access to 5000 full-text doctoral theses –
to view, access and download (as per
restrictions by the authors)
- Available in full text searchable PDF format
- Viewable only and digitally signed
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Templates,
style sheets and other tools for writing theses |
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An
e-publishing portal to publish theses |
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| Vidyanidhi
Partners |
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following institutions are currently the partners of
Vidyanidhi:. |
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| Jadavpur
University, Kolkata |
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| Jamia
Millia Islamia, New Delhi
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| University
of Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
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| University
of Kashmir, Srinagar |
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| What
are the Languages in which digital data / theses available in
Vidyanidhi? |
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| Vidyanidhi
database currently has 100000 metadata records of
Indian theses of all Indian languages |
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| Vidyanidhi
covers all theses published in all Indian
languages. Currently full-text theses
pertaining to the following languages are
uploaded in Vidyanidhi Database |
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| English |
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| Kannada |
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| Hindi |
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| Telugu |
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| Urdu |
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Efforts
are
in
place
to
include
full-text
theses
of
all
Indian
languages |
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| What
are the Metadata Standards followed by Vidyanidhi? |
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Vidyanidhi follows ETD-MS: an Interoperability
Metadata Standard for Electronic Theses and Dissertations –
version 1.00
(http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etd-ms-v1.00-rev2.html)
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metadata elements followed and managed by Vidyanidhi
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i.
dc.title
ii.
dc.creator
iii.
dc.subject
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dc.description
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dc.publisher
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dc.contributor
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dc.date
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dc.type
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dc.identifier
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dc.language
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dc.coverage
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dc.rights
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thesis.degree
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| Join Vidyanidhi – Benefits to
Universities |
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| Vidyanidhi
will – |
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| Digitize
your theses collection following a mutually
agreed workflow |
| Archive
your theses collection according to global
standards and specifications |
| Catalogue
your theses collection and integrate the
same with Vidyanidhi’s Indian Theses
Database |
| One copy of each these of your University in
Electronic / CD format will be given
to your University and in addition
your students and faculty can have
access to the same online at our
website (….@vidyanidhi)
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| Train
your students in e-thesis
preparation and digital
libraries |
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| Train
your students in e-thesis
preparation and digital
libraries |
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| Offer
templates and samples for
the writing of thesis – so
that these conform to
standard practices |
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| Offer
variety of options with
respect to access to theses,
which is defined by the
concerned University /
Doctoral students / Guides |
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| Offer
all the above at no
financial burden to your
University |
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In
return, the partnering University has to facilitate the following:
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| Sign a Memorandum of Understanding with
Vidyanidhi
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| Require to submit Electronic Version of Thesis
along with the print version and incorporate the
same in the Ph.D rules and regulations of the
University
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| Follow
a small number of mandatory standards with
reference to formants and other aspects of
theses. |
| Identify
and designate an official / faculty of
the University to be the coordinator for
this collaborative project. |
| Facilitate the retrospective conversion of
theses by providing access to your
theses collection
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| Facilitate the cataloguing of your theses
collection by the Vidyanidhi
team
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| Identify
and select doctoral research
students for participation in
the training programme |
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Ph.D Students: An inviting oppurtunity |
Every registered Ph.D student can register in Vidyanidhi to benefit from the services and facilities offered by Vidyanidhi |
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| Vidyanidhi welcomes you to fill out our metadata input templates and get included in our database |
| Vidyanidhi will enable students to deposit their theses and archive them from anywhere, anytime |
| Vidyanidhi is your publishing partners |
| You do not have to physically carry your thesis wherever you go you can just access it anytime from anywhere |
| Your theses will be available for access and use by future researchers, generations after generations |
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| Vidyanidhi Assurance |
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| Copyrights of theses rests with the authors of theses |
| Students are free to publish their theses |
| The University/doctoral students/Guides can define the restrictions of access to their theses |
| Vidyanidhi will honour the wishes of the students/advisers regarding any restrictions that they may have regarding level of access to their theses |
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Vidyanidhi is currently involved in developing the following content |
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| Indian Theses Database |
| Indian ETD collection |
| Indian Universities |
| Experts Database |
| Tools and Resources |
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| Facilities in development |
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| Manuals, ToolKits for Theses creation |
| Self-Archiving and Publishing Tools |
| Free access to software for managing bibliographies and reference |
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| For more details , Contact |
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| | Prof. Shalini R Urs |
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| | Vidyanidhi-Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal |
| | Department of Library and Information Science |
| | University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, |
| | Mysore 570 006 |
| | Tel: 91-821-2514699 |
| | Fax: 91-821-2519209 |
| | Email: shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in
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