An Analysis on ‘Shodhganga-A Reservoir of India Theses’ with Special Reference to Library and Information Science Theses

The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET centre provides a platform for Universities and research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally maintained digital repositories, not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research. All Universities, who conducts Ph.D./M.Phil. programme are eligible to join Shodhganga by signing MoU with INFLIBNET centre and appointing a University Co-ordinator. UGC may also provide financial assistance to the INFLIBNET centre for subscription to software tools that detect plagiarized portion of theses and dissertations. This paper is administered to study about the Universities who joined with Shodhganga and how much their contribution of Ph.D. theses and in particular the Universities having Ph.D. in Library and Information Science