ETDs

Africa has been ranked low among the other regions of the world on the production and communication
of research findings. Many have attributed this to poor research culture in the continent, while
others blame it on lack of research sponsorship through grants. However, a major issue that is yet to
be examined is the visibility of existing research in the region to the international research community.
Theses and dissertations are very important research productions that are critical for sustainable
national development. Unfortunately, their visibility is not certain to the global scholarly community.
The study was conducted to examine the potential of electronic theses and dissertations in promotion
of scholarship in Africa and to propose strategies for the full development and adoption of electronic
theses and dissertations in African universities.

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is a highly reputed group of autonomous engineering, technology and management institutes of India and IIT Delhi was established in 1961. This study elaborates the success story of the Digitization and Access Management project of about 4500 Ph.D. Theses which was implemented in the institute by a Digitization Team and Access Management Team of the Central Library, IIT Delhi. The paper covers Need for Digitization @IIT Delhi, Implementation Plan, Processes followed, Linking, Uploading and Accessing Management which have been successfully implemented at IIT Delhi.

In the lust Ji/teen years, dramatJC progress m the field of mformation und c:ornmunicat,on technology (/(I has forced the 1n5t1tutJons of higher education to Jmd out an innovative ways and means of doing research lheses and dissertations are very important data set whicl, came out 111 research and development activ1t1e5 ,n mst1tut1ons of higher education like univerr.1tles 1 /!Ts, //Ms, NITs etc. The knowledge 9en�red in form of thesis 1s a key resource and play important role ,n qe11eratm9 new ideas whK.h benefits the ;SOC1ety Earlier theses & dissertations were considered as clo�d and restr,cted access ,tem of l1tx rres but open access movement had played a vital role m changing thP mindset of acaderrw.,ans a� well as knowledge managers ({l branans) to make the,r maximum efforts to make this re ,r.arch outpvt on publtt domain Shodhganga pro1ect for d1g1tal arch,vmg of e theses by INFLIBNET centre, ,s a tep forward m this d,rect1on where umvers1t1e. s contributing thelf thPses to upload on Sha� hganga IR The pres, • r,r paper 1s an attempt to make an assessmt • nt of contribut,an b y central universities of North East India to this pro1ect.

n academia, there is a growing acceptance of sharing the final electronic version of graduate work, such as a thesis or dissertation, in an online university repository. Though previous studies have shown that journal editors are willing to consider manuscripts derived from electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), faculty advisors and graduate students continue to raise concerns that online discoverability of ETDs negatively impact future opportunities to publish those findings. The current study investigated science journal policies on open access ETDs and found that more than half of the science journals contacted (51.4%) reported that manuscripts derived from openly accessible ETDs are welcome for submission and an additional 29.1% would accept revised ETDs under certain conditions.

U Republici Hrvatskoj zakonska je obaveza (Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o znanstvenoj djelatnosti i visokom obrazovanju, srpanj 2013.) potaknula visoka učilišta da aktivnije započnu s radom na prihvatu i trajnoj pohrani ocjenskih radova u digitalnom obliku. Ovom zakonskom obavezom pred visoka su učilišta postavljeni organizacijski, pravni, tehnološki i financijski izazovi. Kao odgovor na dio tih izazova, u Sveučilišnom računskom centru (Srce) uspostavljen je sustav digitalnih akademskih arhiva i repozitorija (Dabar), koji je omogućio pohranu i upravljanje ocjenskim radovima u digitalnom obliku. U okviru Dabra, a u nadležnosti Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu, u srpnju 2015. godine uspostavljen je Nacionalni repozitorij završnih i diplomskih radova (ZIR) koji okuplja metapodatke svih završnih i diplomskih radova u digitalnom obliku. U prosincu iste godine počeo je s radom Nacionalni repozitorij disertacija i znanstvenih magistarskih radova (DR) okuplja metapodatke disertacija u digitalnom obliku. Radni proces pohranjivanja radova u repozitorije u Dabru baziran je na automatiziranom preuzimanju velikog broja podataka iz različitih sustava kako bi se u najvećoj mogućoj mjeri olakšao i ubrzao unos, osigurala točnost te smanjila redundantnost podataka. Za opis radova koristi se Dublin Core osnovni set elemenata te detaljnija, hijerarhijski organizirana metapodatkovna shema MODS koja se sastoji od elemenata, podelemenata i atributa koji ih dodatno opisuju. Kako bi se zapisi ocjenskih radova uspješno razmjenjivali s drugim sustavima svaki zapis dostupan je putem OAI-PMH sučelja pojedinog repozitorija u Dabru. U radu će se prikazati primjeri izrade metapodatkovnog zapisa pomoću podataka iz drugih sustava poput AAI@EduHr, Informacijskog sustava visokih učilišta (ISVU), Upisnika studijskih programa MZO, te primjeri razmjene s drugim sustavima poput DART-a i OpenDOAR-a.