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National Level ETD Efforts: A Comparative Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2016-10) Shrivastava, Prashant; Gupta, Dinesh K.
The purpose of this paper is to explore cooperative ETD efforts in USA, U.K, India and China that have larger education systems and larger number of higher education graduates. Also to analysis ETD movement of India in comparison. This paper starts with introduction of cooperative ETD movement in countries in four countries, namely USA, U.K, India, China then proceed with an effort to discuss comparative analysis of findings. ETD movement has been adopted by various countries around the world. This study found that there is a requirement of national level ETD service in each country for the swift growth of ETDs around the world. The authors found that universities level ETD programs are the key factors to promote national level ETD service. This paper gives the recommendation for further analysis to explore the solutions to excel cooperative ETD movement in various countries around the world.ETD development in various countries has been explored by various studies but comparative analysis of cooperative ETD service of various nations have not been done. It will be an effort to explore national electronic thesis service of USA, U.K, India and China.