Vol. 10, Issue 10, Part B (2024)

Abstract
Theses and dissertations are the primary and important source of information for the researchers which is valuable for the flourishing of a subject. With the advent of ICT every university use to maintain their own repository to preserve their work. Shodhganga project by INFLIBNET solved this issue of maintaining individual repository and come up with a project so that all universities in India can upload and preserve their research work in this repository so that it can be openly accessed by the entire researcher community. This study attempts to analyse the uploaded theses by the universities of Odisha state in Shodhganga repository and also put some light about the uploaded theses in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). It is found from the study that 21 universities have uploaded a total of 10918 theses in the repository so far and the number of theses in the field of LIS is 96. The results indicated that in 2018 most of the LIS theses were uploaded in the repository, whereas Utkal university contributed maximum number of theses in Shodhganga.