Electronic Theses and Dissertations: New Promotional Initiatives at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh, India

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations: New Promotional Initiatives at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh, India

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Poster: The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh is an institute of national importance and known for medical education, research and patient care in India and abroad. The medical professionals of the institute play a major role in generation and dissemination of health information by conducting research work and producing MD, MS. DM, MCh and Ph D theses as a new information source. The objectives of the study are that all residents/scholars should publish their research work electronically so that the hidden research work may become globally accessible for judging the quality of research work and avoiding its duplication. The electronic theses and dissertations will become suitable for machine archives and worldwide retrieval. The required infrastructure will be upgraded in the institute library to fulfill the need of ETD. The institute library will take the help of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) an international organization involved in the promotion, adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper based theses and dissertations. Systematic strategies will be needed to persuade the institute library to participate in the resource-sharing movement and also play a leading role in developing ETD systems and directing a collaborative network.

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2008