Dear colleagues, URL http://www.mgutheses.org On clicking the above link, the MGU page opened and I gave the kW library for searching. I got 26 hits. The title are focussing on library related issues. But the subject area is displaying as education, biotechnology... etc. NO DLIS dept is displayed. Pl let me know if my search is wrong... Manjunatha ------------------------ Dr. Manjunatha K, Chief Librarian, T.A. PAI Management Institute, P.B. No. 9, Manipal - 576 104. Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India +91 0820-2701105 (off) / 2575161(Res) manjunath@tapmi.edu.in; manjunathak@gmail.com http://www.tapmi.edu.in -------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Vimal Kumar Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:01 PM To: LISforum; mlosc@googlegroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Workshop on Building PhD Theses Digital Libraries Using Nitya D’Arch - November 6-8, 2010 Open Access Online PhD Theses is highly connected to the purpose of 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 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 full 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 programme will discuss various problems hidden in the process of 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 theoretical insight in Theses Digitaization 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 the sponsoring institution. For Registration, Contact: Dr. R. Raman Nair, Mahatma Gandhi University Library Priyadarsini Hills, Kottayam- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.