Theses and dissertations are important knowledge resource created by graduate students in
universities or institutes of higher learning. Due to lack of bibliographic control, and restricted
access, these grey literature collect dust on shelves of libraries. Hence these are lost to prospective
researchers and students to further their studies etc. Although many national and international
efforts are being made to collect, collate and distribute theses and dissertations in many forms,
none is comprehensive. The present trend is to prepare the theses in electronic form to facilitate
easy online access to metadata, abstract and table of content or full text , the theses become OAIPMH
compliant and can be searched on internet from anywhere. Depending upon access restrictions
the theses can be harvested and stored in any institutional repositories. Indian scenario of theses
and dissertations as knowledge resources, and maiden efforts by Tocklai Library in creation of
Institutional Repository [IR] of all theses and dissertations in tea science and technology including
other aspects are discussed. Proposes for a networked repository of TeaETDs among possible
stakeholders in the plan.
In the past two or three years, e-journals have become the largest and fastest growing segment of the digital collections. Collections that a few years ago numbered in the few hundreds of titles now number in the thousands, and the rate of growth continues to increase. We need to archive/preserved the copies of e-journals for future generations were the same copies being read by the current generation of users. Archiving of the E- Journal/E- Content addresses two major issues, Firstly, is giving access to the sources. Secondly, its preservation for long – term use. In this paper I will discusses the issues related to e-journal archiving and their possible solution using some open source software like LOCKSS, Dspace, Eprint, etc. In this paper I am also going to discuss the framework for Evaluation of Archiving Software.