Need of a Digital Library for Indian Theses and Dissertations : a model on par with the ETD initiatives at International Level

In India, a strong move to digitize the internal sources of libraries in universities and other academic institutions yet to take place, which have a rich, precious and unique sources of information is hidden, even unlocked, like theses and dissertations. The idea of E- Theses and Dissertations (ETD) is coming up in International scenario, which can be easily located, readily accessible and delivered over the web. INFLIBNET as the only agency to take care the automation of academic libraries, established by UGC, has to further the existing achievements and to play a role in creating digital library of theses and dissertation to start with. In this paper the works done by INFLIBNET so far in this direction are cited with a proposal for a digital library of Indian theses and dissertations