Open Access Online PhD Theses is highly connected to the

universities and the value of scholarship. It advances the university's interest and fulfills its mission to share the knowledge it produces. In India the first university to take initiative in this regard is mahatma Gandhi University. The launching of the Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) Open Access Digital Archive of PhD Theses (www.mgutheses.org) in 2008 by Former President of India H E Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam the live

Dear Mr. Vimal Kumar, One should be careful about making tall claims. You cannot claim that MGU Archive is the only successful full text archive of theses. To put the record straight, Vidyanidhi Digital Library has been on line with full text theses since 2003 and today has 15,000 full texts of theses and 120,000 meta data records. We were the first  and continue to be there and recognized globally too. You can access Vidyanidhi at - http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ It was Vidyanidhi which brought the importance of ETDs to the attention of the UGC and instrumental in getting the UGC Regulation. Vidyanidhi had   organized a Workshop on ETDs with the Vice Chancellors  of several Universities participating and chaired  by  the then UGC Chairman - Prof. Nirvekar way back in May 2004  Please do your home work before making tall claims. Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM purpose of presence of

the archive in the web for the last two years is a success story among Indian universities. It is accessible from anywhere at any time through the URL

http://www.mgutheses.org since its launching in 2008.

With all the encouragement and instruments provided by UGC during

the the

last decadeIt MGU Archive is still the only successful full text Open Access archives of dissertations hosted in the web by any Indian University. The archive has been selected as one of the Very Best Web Resources for

Education and Research by INTUTE, the European Consortium of universities

funded by Government of UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). MGU has also become the

first signatory among Indian universities to adopt UGC’s Regulation on

E-Theses and contribute data to the UGC’s national archive of theses at INFLIBNET.

The present Workshop is intended to encourage other universities and research institutes to bring results of academic research to public domain and also familiarize Nitya D Arch and the multilingual technologies for

text archiving used in developing the MGU Digital Archives of PhD theses that can be easily adopted by any university or research institute for any Indian language. Nitya D’ Arch facilitates multilingual data input and query building, advanced Boolean query building for accurate and relevant search, and deep indexing which facilitates retrieval of specific pages/sections. The

digitization and introduce tetsed techniques and solutions. It will be an opportunity for implementers and developers from all Indian universities to gain both technical and

providing Open Acces to results of public funded research.

No registration fee will be charged for the participants who are selected to undergo the programme in the first batch. But selection will be based on merit of the participants this capability building at the sponsoring institute. Cost of boarding, lodging, travel and other expenses are to be born by

full programme will discuss various problems hidden in the process of theoretical insight in Theses Digitaization and the sponsoring institution.

Library

Priyadarsini Hills, Kottayam-

For Registration, Contact: Dr. R. Raman Nair, Mahatma Gandhi University 686560. Telephone: 0481 273080, 273018,

9387826738

For related programs and announcements, please visit the blog:

http://mgutheses.wordpress.org and also the news section of the MGU theses Archive at mgutheses.org from where you can download the Workshop brochure and Registration Form

-- Vimal Kumar V. Library Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.co.nr Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in

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