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theses are contributed by participating universities. Besides, records in the database have also been

collected from other reliable sources such as notification from universities, University News and
Records submitted by the individual researchers, etc. Figure 7 depicts web interface for Union Catalogue
of Theses Database.

Fig. 7: Union catalogue of Thesis Database Interface

The compilation of Union Catalogue of Theses commenced in 1995 with 52,000 bibliographic records of
theses from 82 universities. The database has grown to 2,71,581 records of theses as on 31 March, 2017
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from 315 universities over a period of 23 years.

The Centre receives a copy of notification on award of Ph.D. theses from different universities across the
country. Table 6 and Figure 8, given below depict growth of theses database from 1995 to March 2017.

Year No. of No. of
Universities Records
1995 82 52,000
1996 95 65,000
1997 110 72,000
1998 134 90,000
1999 149 1,15,000
2000 160 1,28,000

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