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authorities with regard to ETDs including their responsibilities, access policies, submission process,
metadata structure, tutorial, manual, etc.

Besides default search and browse option provided by the DSpace, a subject-based browse and search
interface is embedded into Shodhganga conisting of six 6 major subject categories at the first level and
28 subject categories at the second level. The major six subject categories are Arts and Humanities,
Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and
Social Sciences. The search can be extended to micro-level for more precision on the subject domain by
using LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Heading List). Figure 18 depicts subject search interface of

Shodhganga.

Fig. 18: Subject Search Interface of Shodhganga

Considering the fact that the process of adaptation of the UGC Notification may take time for
universities, research students are also encouraged to submit electronic version of their Ph.D. theses
into the Shodhganga on voluntary basis. Once the submission of theses is mandated by a university,
process of submission of theses can be monitored by respective universities so as to ensure that correct
and final versions of all the theses from a given university are submitted into the Repository. As such,

while universities are signing MoU with INFLIBNET Centre for granting non-exclusive rights to host their
ETDs in Shodhganga, students from different universities are also submitting electronic version of their
theses into the repository on voluntary basis As on 31 March 2017, researchers from 281 universities
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have submitted their theses into the repository. 308 universities have signed MoU with the INFLIBNET

Centre including 46 universities who have signed the MoU on Shodhganga with INFLIBNET Centre
during the year under report. List of universities who have signed MoU with the INFLIBNET Centre on
Shodhganga is available at http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/annual_report/mou2016_2017.pdf.
Several universities have also started contributing their theses into Shodhganga repository as per the
UGC Notification without signing MoU. A list of 35 such universities who contributed soft copies of their
theses into Shodhganga without signing an MoU is available at http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

annual_report/contributing_wo_mou.pdf. Total number of theses submitted into the repository has
grown to 1,35,135. Figure 19 depicts year-wise theses submission into Shodhganga. Figure 20 depicts
Month-wise submissions into Shodhganga during the period under report.

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