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iETD National Conference 2016

Editor-in-chief Convener Co-Convener Organising Secretary

Dr. Jagdish Arora Mr. Manoj Kumar K Ms. Suboohi S Mr. H G Hosamani Director Scientist-D (CS) STO-I (LS) Scientist-C (LS)INFLIBNET Centre INFLIBNET Centre INFLIBNET Centre INFLIBNET CentreGandhinagar-382007 Gandhinagar-382007 Gandhinagar-382007 Gandhinagar-382007

Phone : +91-079-23268220 Phone : +91-079-23268232 Phone : +91-079-23268313manoj@inflibnet.ac.in suboohi@inflibnet.ac.in hosamani@inflibnet.ac.in

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ETD 2016NATIONAL CONFERENCE

05- 07 October, 2016

Theme

“Evolving ETDs to Knowledge Repositories”

Managing ETDs

Technology for Developing ETDs

Legal and Ethical Issues of ETDs and Plagiarism

Sub-themes

Organised by

Information and Library Network CentreGandhinagar, Gujarat

Receipt of Full Papers : September 20, 2016

Last date for Registration : September 30, 2016

Convention Dates : October 5-7, 2016

Important Dates

colleges in different disciplines; iv) Shodhganga for

enabling online submission of doctoral theses and

dissertations by research scholars in an open access

digital repository; v) Shodhgangotri for facilitating

research scholars to submit approved synopsis of research

proposals submitted to their universities; vi) Open Journals

Access System (OJAS) to facilitate faculty and researchers

in Indian universities to launch their open access journals

on OJAS platform; vii) InfoPort: INFLIBNET’s Subject

Gateway for Indian Electronic Resources; viii) e-PG

Pathshala, a project assigned to the UGC by NME-ICT,

wherein e-content are being developed in 77 subjects at

postgraduate level; ix) VIDWAN, a premier database of

profiles of scientists and faculty members working in

leading academic institutions and other R & D

organisations involved in teaching and research in India; x)

e-Acharya - an Integrated e-content portal: a web-

based portal consisting of all e-content developed and

funded under NME-ICT; xi) ICSSR Data Service: Social

Science Data Repository for setting up of repository and

hosting of NSS and ASI datasets into the data repository;

and xii) National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF),

a project assigned by MHRD for ranking institutions

across the country.

Registration & Accommodation

Registration for Students

The convention registration fee is /(including

15% service tax). It includes convention kit, convention

proceedings, lunch and tea (on three convention days

only). TA/DA and accommodation charges will have to be

borne by sponsoring organizations/participants.

The convention registration fee for student is

(including 15% service tax). Accommodation fees will be

₹. 3450

₹. 2,300/-

charged separately, based on type of accommodation

required.

Accommodation fees will be charged separately, based on

type of accommodation as required. Accommodation can

be arranged for the participants in the INFLIBNET Centre

campus or Hotels on first cum first basis provided

intimation and advance booking charges are sent to the

Convener along with registration fees. If any participant

intends to stay in a hotel, it may be arranged on actual

payment basis provided intimation and advance booking

charges.

Individual/per day 460 (including 15% service tax).

Sharing basis/per person/per day (including 15%

service tax).

Please send your completed dully filled-in registration

form along with the registration fee through Demand

Draft drawn in favour of INFLIBNET Centre, send to Sh.

Manoj Kumar K., Scientist-D (CS) on or before

September 30, 2016. DD should be drawn on

nationalized banks only with 3 months validity.

Accommodation

Accommodation charges (Guest House):

₹

₹ 288

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Objectives

v To impart knowledge on creating and managing

ETDs;

v To provide opportunity to the participants to

exchange ideas and enrich their respective

programmes on ETDs;

v To formulate policies based on the input and

discussions of experts for deterring plagiarism in

academic sector; and

v To create awareness on ethics and academic

integrity and hands-on for using plagiarism

detection software.

v Content Management in ETD Repositories

v Metadata Standards and Qualifiers

v Digital Preservation support for ETDs

v Data sharing and long-term data archives

v ETD publishing and Embargoes

v Use of Persistent IDs in the ETD (ORCID,

Research Resources ID, etc)

v

v Case Studies of evolving ETDs in Institutions

v Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Call for Papers

Programme Committee seek high quality technical papers

related to the theme and sub-themes but not limited to

the areas as specified below:

Theme: “Evolving ETDs to Knowledge Repositories”

Managing ETDs

Technology for Developing ETDs

Legal and Ethical Issues of ETDs and Plagiarism

Sub Themes

v Creation, Maintenance and Dissemination of

ETDs

v ETD Implementation and Policies

v Digitization Process and Policies

v Initiatives by Universities in Digitization and

Setting up of ETD Labs

v Technical Issues involved

v Case Studies : ETD Initiatives

To Incorporate Altmetrics in the ETD

iETD National Conference 2016

Introduction

Electronic Theses and Dissertations are primary sources

of research materials that originates from doctoral

theses/dissertations submitted to the universities for

award of Ph.D. As per UGC Notification (Minimum

Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil./Ph.D st

Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1 June, 2009, it is

mandatory to submit electronic version of theses and

dissertations by the researchers in universities into a

national repository with an aim to facilitate open access

to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic

community world-wide. Universities are requested to

host soft copy of the theses awarded by the universities

into a central repository i.e Shodhganga. Since 2010

January, the number of theses has grown progressively

and the repository has reached about 1,00,000 theses

in July, 2016 which makes Shodhganga the largest

repository of Ph.D theses in India.

The National conference is aimed at enhancing the

quality of ETDs and deliberates on various parameters

effecting the creation and maintenance of ETDs at

university as well as national level. In addition to the

invited talk from the national experts in the domain of

ETDs, sessions will be provided to understand the

workflow and process involved in creation of ETDs. The

conference also addresses important issues like

plagiarism, copyright, Open Access, etc.

This national conference on iETD 2016 is third in the

series. The first national conference was organized in nd rd

JNU, New Delhi on March 22

second national conference was organised at nd rd

INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar from 22 -23

January, 2015, The third national conference would

serve as an excellent educational opportunity to

librarians, research scholars, supervisors and other ETD

professionals from universities to create/build policy

on ETD/anti-plagiarism and maintain their digital

repositories by interacting each other. The goal of the

conference is to offer relevant, practice-oriented

content to support National ETD productivity

improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD

operations, and encourage the creation of quality

repository for national ETDs in India.

-23 , 2012. The

v Impact of ETDs in Scholarly Communication in

India

v Open Access and Open Initiatives

v Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright

v The role of ETDs in Enhancing Visibility and in

Countering Plagiarism

v Dealing with Plagiarism in Universities and

Policies

v Case Studies: Curbing Plagiarism

Prof. Ved Prakash, Hon'ble Chairman, University Grants

Commission, New Delhi

Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET Centre,

Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Dr. M. N. Patel , Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University,

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Prof. S.A. Bari, Vice Chancellor, Central University of

Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Dr. Manju Singh, Joint Secretary (IUC), UGC, New Delhi

Prof Shabahat Hussain, President ILA and Chairman,

DLIS, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

Dr. Raj Kumar, University Librarian, Panjab University,

Chandigarh

Dr. Ramesh C Gaur, University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru

University, New Delhi

Dr. G. Krishnamurthy, University Librarian, Anna

University. Chennai

Dr. Mayank Trivedi, University Librarian, Maharaja

Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat

Dr. S. B. Patil, University Librarian, Karnatak University,

Dharwad, Karnataka

Dr. G. Gangadharaiah, Information Scientist, Sri

Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh

Dr. Wooma Sankar Dev Nath, University Librarian, Gauhati

University, Guwahati, Assam

Conference Committee

Chief Patron

Patron

National Committee

Committee Members

Dr. Yogesh Parekh, Library (I/c), Gujarat University,

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Dr. D. K. Veer, University Librarian, Dr. Babasaheb

Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad,

Maharashtra

Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET Centre,

Mr. Manoj Kumar K, Scientist D (CS) INFLIBNET Centre

Mrs. Suboohi Siddiqui, STO (LS), INFLIBNET Centre

Mr. Ashok Kumar Rai, Scientist D (CS)

Mr. Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS)

Mr. Kannan P, Scientist C (LS)

Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS)

Mr. Gaurav Prakash, Scientist B (CS)

Mr. Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS)

Ms. Hema Cholin, STO (LS)

Mr. Mohit Kumar, STA (CS)

Mr. Kuldeep M, Project Officer (LS)

Ms. Archita Muchhadia, Project Officer (LS)

Ms. Neha Jain, Project Officer (LS)

Ms. Rahul Panchal, Project Associate (CS)

Mr. Harish Chandra, Administrative Officer (P&A),

INFLIBNET Centre

Mr. Devang Roy, Office Asstistant II, INFLIBNET Centre

Editorial Committee

Organizing Committee (INFLIBNET Centre)

Administrative and Support Staff

About INFLIBNET

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre

was established in May 1996 as an independent,

autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of the

University Grants Commission (UGC).

Major activities and services include i) IndCat, a unified

online catalogue of books, theses and journals available in

major university libraries in India; ii) SOUL 2.0, state-of-

the-art integrated library management software; iii) e-

Shodh Sindhu for extending access to selected scholarly

electronic journals and databases to eligible

universities,centrally-funded technical institutions and