Scholarly Communication through e-Theses in Academic Libraries: Case Study from Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Library, Sri Lanka

ETDs provide unique content of university-generated information. It saves shelf space, serve more users at the same time, and provide more timely access. It can be built up browsing deep web and according to the subject interest of particular scholarly community. Undergraduates and other researchers can go through ETD repository of the institute before undertaking any new research study. It eventually becomes a part of the institutional repository. It helps them immensely to produce a valuable scholarly piece to the scholarly community in the world.