Sinha, Atanu Kumar(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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Abstract:
Providing access to information has always been a function of Libraries and Information
Centres (L & ICs). Access to information is crucial for education, science and culture
and for fostering democracy in the information society. The principle of ‘free and universal
access to information as well as freedom in the creation and dissemination of knowledge’
is a fundamental goal of the L & ICs. Theses and Dissertations (TDs) among all
the primary sources are probably least used because firstly, their existence is not known
in many cases, and, secondly, they are not easily accessible due to their unpublished
status. This paper focuses on access and technology issues concerning ETDs, nature
and benefits, methods of developing digital archives, and discusses various file formats
and file compression as well as post processing for making digitised files accessible to
the end-users.