1. Miss Manisha R. Khakre Librarian, Arts, Commerce & Science College, Arvi, Dist. Wardha, Maharashtra, India E-mail ID- ms.manisha_khakre@rediffmail.com

2. An Overview concept of ETD creation of ETD Merits of ETD Shodhganga ETD Repository ETD initiatives in India Role of Universities and Librarians Benefits of ETD Globle Status Of ETD Repository

3. Concept of Repository  ETD repositories are becoming a major resource for information in all subjects and ETD repositories are providing institutional knowledge available online and thereby increasing it’s visibility and use. ETD are the important source for the researcher in the world. many higher education institutes are actively engaged in introducing ETD repositories at national as well as international level.

4. Benefits of ETD Repository More access to research Less expense to authors and libraries per cost No physical shelf space Lower cataloging costs. Better presentation of research Addition of multimedia files More dynamic presentation of data hyperlinks Programs and code Other format support.

5. Merits of ETD Repository Following are the merits of ETD which are given by Bandra (2002) 1 To improve Students to convey a research message through the use of multimedia and hypermedia technologies. To improve graduate education by allowing students to Produce electronic documents, use digital libraries and understand issue in publishing. To increase the availability of student research for scholars and preserve it electronically. To lower the cost of submitting and handling theses and dissertation. To empower universities to unlock their information resources. To advance digital library Technology.

6. Creation of Repository For creation of ETD word processor software vis. Ms-Word, Latex etc.used The theses or dissertation are submitted as a PDF (portable Document Format) file. Dspace, Reprints, Fedora etc.digital softwares has been broadest applications. Today open Archives initiative protocol for metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is an interoperability framework based on HTTP. Metadata tags such as SGML/XML and MARK UP language that assign unique identifiers to identify items with in a repository

7. UGC Recommendations The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phill./Ph.D. Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1 st June 2009 provides for submission of electronic version of theses and dissertation with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community worldwide. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories will not only ensure access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research. ny Logo

8. Global Status of repositories Fig 1- Growth of Records per year from 1990 to 2013 retrieved from ROAR dated on 05/03/2013

9. Repository name Num. Recs.Software catalysis datiabase 2327EPrints CMFRI Digital Repository 8921EPrints Digital repository of Cochin University of Science & Technology 2296DSpace DigitalLibrary@CUSAT 5293DSpace DRS at National Institute Of Oceanography 4213DSpace DSpace @ GGSIPU 135DSpace dspace @ sdmcet 60DSpace DSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 526DSpace DSpace at NCRA 84DSpace DSpace at Vidyanidhi 5482DSpace Dspace@NITR 1779DSpace DSpace@TU 2067DSpace DU Eprint Archive 170EPrints Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science 1844DSpace Eprint@NML 5486EPrints Eprints@IARI 230EPrints EPrints@IITD 2141DSpace Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service 1010EPrints Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository 5724DSpace Institutional Repository of Intectual Contributions of Delhi Technological University 841DSpace ETD REPOSITORIES IN INDIA

11. Up to 05/03/2013 There are 107 Indian Universities signed MOU and 5600 theses uploaded on the Shodhganga ETD repository Fig-3 Home page of Shodhaganga: A reservoir of Indian Theses

12. Name of UniversityURLNo of Thesis 1)Cochin University of Science and Technology 2)Mahatma Gandhi University 3)Podicherry University 4)University of Hydra bad 5)University of Pune www.cusatoac.in www.mguniversity. ac.in www.pondiuni.edu.in www.uohyd.ac.in www.unipune.ac.in 1001 938 679 416 289 Top Contributing Universities in Shodhganga

13. Sant Gadge BaBa Amaravati University. Company Logo

14. Theses submitted by Sant Gadge Baba Amaravati, University Company Logo

15. At University level well-equipped computer labs must be put in place to provide, reducing the time from acceptance to public access, and, of course, one ETD can have multiple simultaneous users Library community must take initiatives in the maintenance of ETD seriously. It is essential for librarians as information professionals to take the initiatives to make progress in this crucial area and librarian should take opportunity to attend workshops and conferences to gain knowledge of ETD repositories. Role of Universities and Librarians

16. Conclusion INFLIBNET is now taking steps in this direction. INFLIBNET starting developing a National Union Catalogue of ETDS in India and INFLIBNET can assist them in formulating the policies training and necessary funding. The ETD repositories should be properly uploaded and maintained in order to provide accessibility of research work. There is increased need of discussing these problems globaly and UGC, INDEST consortium an open Access Advocacy Group, ICSSR and National knowledge Commission. are Playing key role in framing National policies for digitization of theses and dissertations in India