National ETD initiatives in global platform: participative analysis and current status in NDLTD repository

Abstract

Global ETD search platform is a joint effort of 34 regions/ countries throughout of the world under supervision of NDLTD. The study attempts to view the status of repositories, contributions, initiatives and adaptation of open ETDs in different countries of the world in NDLTD’s repository for global uses. It also includes the analysis to the top ten national ETD repositories based on their collection and it also tries to draw a map in relation with United Nation Human Development Index and ETD repositories. There are about 55,72,749 ETDs have been deposited in the NDLTD’s global open repository for global access and utilities. Among the contributed countries, the top ten repository countries are UK, Taiwan, France, Germany, India, Portugal, Japan, Finland, P. R. China and Brasil in regards of the uploaded resources. The rank correlation coefficient have been calculated with respected to ETD rank and global HDI rank among them. The paper also tries to present a continental ETD analysis for present global ETD scenario. The quantitative analysis of the national ETD repositories were all landmark achievement of individual ETD participating countries, as these provided the opportunity for researchers, faculty and students for furthering their existing knowledge and sustainable world.