1. K.SURESH MLISc- Final Year Student
DEVELOPMENT OF ETD REPOSITORY AT BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY USING D-SPACE
K.SURESH
MLISc- Final Year Student
R. BALASUBRAMANI
Supervisor
Assistant Professor
DOLIS, Bharathidasan University
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2. INTRODUCTION
Indian universities play a major role in generation and dissemination of knowledge by conducting research works and producing PhD theses as a unique genre of information sources.
Every year, nearly PhDs are awarding in India. The purpose of the thesis is to provide an experience in scholarship which will be of enduring value to the student in understanding how new knowledge is acquired and communicated within the chosen field.

3. What is ETD Repository (IR)
“An institutional repository is a digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and outside of the institution, with few if any barriers to access.”

4. Institutional Repositories Definition:
An Institutional repository is an Organization based set of services which the organization offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation, where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution” (Clifford Lynch 2003)

5. OBJECTIVES
In order to precede the study the following objectives are framed in according with the scope of this investigation.
To develop digital repository on Electronic Thesis and Dissertations of Bharathidasan University
To collect organize submit and retrieve Electronic Thesis and Dissertations
To give sustainable support of higher education and research in the academic activities
To allow institutional students to submit and access the ETD content which will help them to open access interaction
To provide wide access to the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations

6. Archiving & Dissemination
METHODOLOGY
The researcher has decided to select and use the Dspace software to create the ETD repository for Bharathidasan University under the name Bharathidasan
Deposition &
Moderation
Archiving & Dissemination
BDU DR
Collection:
Electronic Thesis and Dissertatio ns
Document
Processing

7. COLLECTION
Bharathidasan Repository is organized by academic departments (communities), and within a department. As of May 2012, the ETD Collections has 229 documents in 18 Departments.

8. S.NO
DEPARTMENT
TOTAL COLLECTIONS 1
BIOTECHNOLOGY 08 2
BOTANY 21 3
CHEMISTRY 27 4
COMMERCE 39 5
COMPUTER SCIENCE 03 6
ECONOMICS 16 7
EDUCATION 04 8
ENGLISH 05 9
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 02 10
GEOLOGY 11
HISTORY 12
LIBRARY SCIENCE 13
MANAGEMENT 18 14
MATHS 15
MICROBIOLOGY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION 17
PHYSICS
ZOOLOGY
229

9. NEED FOR THE STUDY:
Bharathidasan University performs a better role in the Research and Development activities. Research scholars are taking part in the Research Activities. So it is necessary to preserve these Results without any damage for the use of future generation. So this project give solution for that preservation problem.

10. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The present study aims at designing digital repository for an academic institution. The title is with special reference to” Design and Development of Digital Repository on Electronic Thesis and Dissertations of Research Scholars of BDU

11. INSTALLING DSPACE ON WINDOWS
Requirements
Java SDK 1.4.2
Apache
Tomcat
Apache Ant 1.6.5
Postgre SQL 8.0.2
DSpace 1.4 alpha 1

24. Result Page

25. CONCLUSION
Barriers to setting up ETD repository at Bharathidasan University
Lack of support from Faculty/academic staff
Lack of Funding/ infrastructure
Access and security
Copyright and Intellectual Property Right
ETD repositories have the potential to store much more electronic theses and require very little space to contain it.
As such, the cost of maintaining Electronic Theses and Dissertation is much lower than that of a traditional system.

26. CONT..,
Considering the advantages like no physical boundaries, round-the-clock availability of information, multiple accesses to information resources, faster information search and retrieval, preservation and conservation of exact copy of the original document and cost, Bharathidasan University has set up an Electronic Thesis and Dissertation using the open-source software “DSpace”.
With the development of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation access and retrieval has been increased at the campus level and at the Bharathidasan University level as well. ETD Repositories can provide significant benefits after an initial investment of time.