INDIAN Resources for Library Research Information

The 'University News' is a weekly journal carrying a variety of articles on different aspects of higher education. While some of them are of factual nature and local interest, others delineate current national and global thinking. A proper appreciation of various problems of higher education is facilitated if articles on a given theme are read together. The Association has introduced a new series "Selections from University News" in which articles on similar themes are brought together. Available in Print it has columns in each of its weekly issues called "Thesis of the Month" in which the Thesis awarded in All the Faculties are listed. LISGateway.com provides searchable and browsable catalogue of Internet based resources related to Library & Information Science. It encourages the exploitation of publishers material by providing free access to quality web resources LISGateway VIDYANIDHI Vidyanidhi (Meaning 'Treasure of Knowledge' in Sanskrit) is India's premier Digital library initiative to facilitate the creation, archiving and accessing of doctoral theses. Vidyanidhi is an information infrastructure, a digital library, a portal of resources, tools and facilities for doctoral research in India. Vidyanidhi is envisioned to evolve as a national repository and a consortium for e-theses through participation and partnership with universities, academic institutions and other stake holders. Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works. INFLIBNET Development of Union databases of Indian University Libraries is one of the major activities of INFLIBNET. One of the important Database developed by INFLIBNET is THESES Database, which is available online (free) at INFLIBNET Theses database of INFLIBNET has over one and half lakh records of the doctoral dissertations submitted to the Indian universities in all disiplines.The bibliographical details like researcher, title of the thesis, guides), university name, department name, subjects), year of award etc are provided. This is the only one online tool available to find out the research out put of Indian Universities. This data has been contributed by the universities and does not cover the abstracts at present

NASSDOC Collection of unpublished doctoral dissertations, research project reports, current and old volumes of social science journals of Indian and foreign origin