In an effort to keep up with the times and
make more resources available online to students, the Delhi University Central
library has digitised 8,300 PhD theses submitted by scholars to its various
departments from 1980 to 2003. Any DU student can now walk into the central
library and access this e-database by logging into the library’s internal
network
The theses were digitised at the end of a two-year project
undertaken by the library staff and funded by a Rs 28 lakh grant from the Delhi
University. The central library also has plans for to digitise more theses in
the second and third phase of the project. The second phase will cover theses
submitted to the University from 1922 to 1980, and the third phase would cover
those submitted post 2003, library officials said.
The Central library has also digitised 14,388 copyright expired
books from its collection, including many rare volumes and uploaded them online
for public use. Anyone can access theses books from the University website or
at this link - .
The books were digitised through a project funded by Government of
India’s Department of Information Technology which was launched in 2008 and
completed in October 2010. A range of books in all topics, including
literature, History and Science are available in this collection.
The library also has on offer more than 10,000 online journals on
a wide range of subjects, all of which can be accessed free of cost by students
from the University network. They can also log into from their respective
colleges or from libraries in the University campus. Library officials said
that a project to enable students and teachers to access these journals from
their homes by logging into the University network will also be completed soon.
This facility will be made available to teachers of Delhi
University and later to all students, Central library officials said.
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