Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 4

Design and Development of an Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Repository at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University using EPrints

1Assistant Librarian, ITER, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

2Chief Librarian, ITER, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, aswiniray4@gmail.com

3System Analyst, ITER, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, system.analyst@soauniversity.ac.in

*Corresponding author email id: dbramesh@soauniversity.ac.in

Online published on 7 January, 2019.

Abstract

The academic and research institutes have been acquainted with the present trend of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) which are archived in an institutional repository by means of an open-source software (OSS). ETD repositories are quite common with many national level institutes and universities, while some other institutes are planning to embrace the trend. Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University has initiated archiving their ETD by using an OSS called EPrints software. The main aim of the study is to implement an OSS at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University for ETD archiving purpose. This paper highlights the organisation and dissemination of ETDs of S.O.A. University with the help of EPrints software.

Keywords

Electronic theses and dissertations, ETDs, Institutional repository, IR, EPrints, Opensource software, S.O.A. University