Re: [Assam] Help at hand for wannabe PhDs

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:32:32 -0800

>INSDOC= International Scientific Documentation? is in place in India since1950's-you can get >any abstract

That is good to know. Thank you.

>There are academic nets even in India -IIT has many.

It will be good if they include institutions outside the IITs. 

>Soon there should be available nets "What not to waste time on----already old hat"

Right! It will really be good if they index all books and dissertations written on the history of Assam and the Assamese (people and the language).

Regards,

- ABS.




 
From: "mc mahant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Help at hand for wannabe PhDs
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:09:50 +0530

INSDOC= International Scientific Documentation? is in place in India since1950's-you can get any abstract

There are academic nets even in India -IIT has many.

Google -types are hardly the nets academics go to.

Soon there should be available nets "What not to waste time on----already old hat"

mm

From: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Help at hand for wannabe PhDs
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:15:57 -0600

UMI ProQuest has a commercial database called "Dissertation Abstract" (summary/abstract only with the citation of course) for this for dissertations submitted here in the US. Then you can get the full-text of a dissertation by going to a library or paying $40.00 or so to UMI. You can get lucky and get the dissertation through ILL (inter-library-loan) also, if that university/library has the policy of lending their dissertations.

To search for a dissertation (and to get the abstract/citation for free) submitted in last 2 years click here --> http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

I'm not sure if India has a database like this. It is good to know that ACTA is taking up a project in Assam so that the hardwork that the researchers put in don't go into vain, as the artilce mentioned.

From: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Help at hand for wannabe PhDs
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:20:03 -0800 (PST)

Unfortunately the common public search engines do not contain research material published by the academia. Google's special search engine for such material charges by the article. So this is a worthwhile effort. Hopefully the extracts will be available electronically via a search engine at no cost to the researchers.
Dilip.

mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Such search engines already exist-last12 years!
mm

From:  Pradip Kumar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:  assam@assamnet.org
Subject:  [Assam] Help at hand for wannabe PhDs
Date:  Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:12:08 -0800 (PST)

            
Help at hand for wannabe PhDs  
   - Assam College Teachers’ Association to compile extracts of theses      
UMANAND JAISWAL
                              
Guwahati, Oct. 29: It’s every PhD aspirant’s nightmare.
          
You spend months in the library, almost beginning to smell of books after having read every bit of printed matter that is available on the topic of your research. And then, when the “magnum opus” is almost ready, you come across a tattered publication hidden in that unreachable corner of your university library, screaming the same title as yours.
          
Fortunately, academicians in Assam will now find it a little
easier to locate topics that have already been researched and also pick a tip or two from earlier works.
          
The Assam College Teachers’ Association has embarked on a project to collect and publish extracts from doctoral theses with the objective of helping aspiring scholars.
          
At present, work is on to compile a three-part research journal, each containing extracts of 100 theses papers from all three streams — arts, science and commerce.
          
A six-member committee, headed by Sunil Sharma of Barama College, is busy putting together the extracts for the first volume of the journal, which is likely to be released during the association’s annual conference, to be held at Silapathar in January.
          
“The project is a humble effort of the association to contribute meaningfully to the academic
development of the state as well as aid academically-oriented youths,” said Prasad Gogoi, president of the teachers’ association.
          
In a state where hunting for data is a painful exercise, this journal, the association feels, will lessen the burden of aspiring scholars.
          
With six government colleges, 190 deficit colleges, 37 ad hoc colleges and 125 venture colleges, not to mention of the five universities spread across the state, the association hopes that the journal would generate considerable interest. “The whole idea is to share knowledge. Aspiring scholars can get in touch with the authors of the theses to know more on the subject since we will be publishing the name and contact address and numbers of the scholars we will shortlist. The three-part journal is the first phase of the project,” he said.
                    
The ambitious
project is being funded by the Oil India Limited.
          
“We had submitted a proposal to the OIL and they sanctioned the fund. Such encouragement is important for projects like these to materialise,” said Apurba Kumar Das, the secretary of the association.
          
The Rs 10-lakh project, incidentally, coincides with the University Grants Commission making either an MPhil or a PhD an important criteria for a teaching job in any college and university.
          
Around 25 to 30 PhD theses are submitted each year.
          
“We are sure the journal will at least give aspiring scholars an idea about how to proceed. It will make their life a little easier,” Das said.
DATA POOL
The project
Collection and publication of extracts from doctoral theses from all three streams — arts, science and commerce
The objective
To help scholars get    an idea of the kind of    work that has been done previously and on ways    to proceed with their    research
The financier
Oil India Ltd will    provide Rs 10 lakh for    the project
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