Treffer: VIDYANIDHI: INDIAN DIGITAL LIBRARY OF ELECTRONIC THESES.

The article focuses on the Vidyanidhi project started at the University of Mysore in India and sponsored by the National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT), which is emerging as a national effort to create, maintain and provide network access to digital library of Indian theses. Vidyanidhi is a direct consequence of the policy initiatives identified in the Information Technology Action Plan. The impetus has come primarily from a policy initiative that makes it mandatory for all universities or deemed universities in the country to host every dissertation/thesis on a designated Web site. Building blocks of the Vidyanidhi are two fill-content databases and the metadata database. In the immediate future, however, it will be a centralized repository facilitating network access. This is necessary and important for the purpose of evolving a national consensus and agreement on all relevant issues and standards.