{"id":412,"date":"2011-10-02T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcurocks.wordpress.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-10-02T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T13:00:13","slug":"open-access-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/open-access-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some years ago, Prof. Shalini Urs of the University of Mysore made a concerted effort to aggregate one aspect of Indian scholarship through the Vidyanidhi<\/strong> <\/a>project. Vidyanidhi (Meaning ‘Treasure of Knowledge’ in Sanskrit) is India’s premier Digital library initiative to facilitate the creation, archiving and accessing of doctoral theses. Vidyanidhi is an information infrastructure, a digital library, a portal of resources, tools and facilities for doctoral research in India. Vidyanidhi is envisioned to evolve as a national repository and a consortium for e-theses through participation and partnership with universities, academic institutions and other stake holders. Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nSadly, this has not worked as well as it should have. Most Universities did not, as a matter of policy, join the effort, citing any number of reasons, some of which were anything but reasonable. There is a plaintive plea on the Vidyanidhi site,<\/p>\n
\nWe welcome and encourage universities to participate in this collaborative initiative. Our initiative will be strengthened only by your cooperation and participation. Please do join us.<\/strong><\/em>
\nWhy should you join us?<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n