GTU to join hands with Shodhganga for raising quality of research

Ahmedabad

To raise the standards and quality of Research, Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has decided to join hands with Shodhganga, an agency of UGC from the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre.

Dr. Akshai Aggrawal, Vice Chancellor of GTU said that an MOU in this regards will be signed up on 15th May at 3.30 pm at Chandkheda Campus of GTU. this tie-up will be really helpful to GTU’s Ph.D students. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories, not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses. This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and improve quality in research output.

Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers. The agency has anti-plagiarism software to check ‘copied’ research.

Shodhganga replicates academic structure of each University in terms of Departments/ Centres/ Colleges each University has to facilitate ease of navigation. This structure facilitates research scholars from universities to deposit their theses in the respective Department / Centre / College. The Centre is also developing a semantic web-based interface to facilitate subject-based browsing, navigation, search and retrieval of content available in the repository.

– DeshGujarat