SHODHGANGA is a National repository of electronic theses and dissertations with fulltext content based on UGC notification. As per the UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1st June 2009, it mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities within 30 days of award of the PhD aiming at facilitating open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. INFLIBNET Centre has the non-exclusive rights to host the content on ‘Shodhganga’ with a disclaimer that IPR of the content is with the Research Scholars and Universities.
Under the “SHODHGANGOTRI” initiative, research scholars/research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit electronic version of approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D programme. The repository on one hand, would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand it would avoid duplication of research. Synopsis in “ShodhGangotri” would later be mapped to full-text theses in “ShodhGanga”. As such, once the full-text thesis is submitted for a synopsis, a link to the full-text theses would be provided from ShodhGangotri to “ShodhGanga”.
