Bangalore University to bridge distance in studies

Bangalore University to bridge distance in studies


Bangalore: Candidates who have enrolled for the various undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the Bangalore University’s distance education programme will soon be able to refer study materials by just clicking the university’s website.
The university has digitised study materials of the correspondence courses and they will be uploaded on the university’s official website. The students will then be able to even download the materials.
The university is planning to put on the website the PhD theses submitted by students. “Digitising the PhD theses will prevent copying,” an official of the university’s library department said.“We are also adopting anti-plagiarism software to analyse the quality of the theses submitted by PhD students,” the official said.
“We have also made arrangements for faculties and research students to access international journals through the Internet.”
The university has started a project called ‘Remote access connectivity’ to provide faculties and research scholars access to the 4,500 e-journals available through the University Grants Commission. The project would benefit about 100 teachers and students, the official said.
The varsity had also decided to keep its library open all 24 hours a day, vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev said during the inauguration of the university’s digital library created in association with Digital Library of India on Friday.

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