(7 August 2017) NDLTD is pleased to announce that Dr. Jagdish Arora and Mr. Manoj Kumar won the ETD Leadership Award for their dedicated work on the Shodhganga thesis repository in India. Their joint analysis, planning, design and implementation of the repository began when there was hardly a digital or digitized thesis available in the area. The repository has since grown to immense proportions and is likely the largest such project in India, if not Asia.
As the director of the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET – http://inflibnet.ac.in/) in India Dr. Arora has contributed immensely to the promotion of open access and graduate scholarship there. Mr. Kumar as the director of the Shodhganga (http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/) repository has worked to promote the digital genre throughout the region.
Click here to read the story in full on the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, NDLTD, website.
