Thursday, October 16, 2025
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e-NBA
The project, called “Accreditation Workflow Management System (AWMS)” is related to accreditation of technical institution’s programme. The Centre is involved to develop full-fledge online platform of accreditation workflow management system for technical institutes based on requirements provided by National Board of Accreditation.
NAAC
The INFLIBNET Centre is awarded a project of validation and verification of bibliometric data for the HEIs undergoing the NAAC Accreditation. Under the project, the Centre is responsible to provide data for bibliometrics related elements for all applicants and also provides support and consultancy services for validation of bibliometrics data.
Data Services
The ICSSR has sanctioned a project entitled "Setting-up of Indian Social Science Data Repository for the ICSSR's Data Service" to the Centre. The ICSSR has signed an MoU with Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi for providing NSS and ASI datasets which, in turn, are being handed over to INFLIBNET Centre for hosting onto the repository.
DataCite - Global Access Fund
DataCite Global Access Funds is an initiative aimed at promoting and supporting global access to research data. As a nonprofit organization, DataCite seeks to enable researchers, institutions, and organizations around the world to openly share their valuable data resources. The Global Access Funds program provides financial support to cover the costs under the three categories that include Outreach and engagement activities, Open Infrastructure development and integration and Demonstrators. "The GAF is part of the DataCite Global Access Program (GAP) made possible by grant Grant 2022-316573 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" DataCite. The INFLIBNET Centre had applied for the Funds under Outreach category which has been approved by the DataCite for Funding.
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NIRF
The ranking framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country. The INFLIBNET Centre is responsible for the development of NIRF Web Portal including data capturing system, perception capturing system, the feedback mechanism and the ranking platform. The Centre is also involved to provide and verify data on publications, citations, patents and highly cited papers within India.
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Swayam Prabha
The SWAYAM-PRABHA, an MoE project under NME-ICT, is conceived as a group of 40 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 transponders. New content for at least four hours is being telecasted that would be repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the student to choose the time slot as per their convenience. The INFLIBNET Centre is continuing the task of developing portal of SWAYAM PRABHA and its hosting including archiving of videos for all the channel.
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ORCID - GPP
The Global Participation Fund is a testament to ORCID's commitment to fostering collaboration and engagement within the research community. In this regard, the Centre will conduct 20 ORCID Outreach Programmes in HEIs across the country to promote ORCID ID adoption and implementation across scholarly communication fields & platforms, thereby enhancing the quality and integrity of research and scholarship. As part of the award proposal, the INFLIBNET Centre is conducting an outreach programme titled “One-day User Awareness Program on ORCID and INFLIBNET Services for Scholarly Communities” in selected HEIs region-wise across the country. The main objective of the programme is to create awareness of the use of academic identities, i.e., ORCID, among Indian researchers and academicians.
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She Research Network in India (SheRNI)
She Research Network in India (SheRNI) is the expert profile network system that connects and leverages the knowledge, skills, and expertise of women across various fields in India. This system aims to empower women by providing opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing. The objectives of this project are to create a national-level expert profile system for women faculty members and facilitate the exchange of expertise, insights, and experiences among women experts in diverse fields.
The system supports the women scientists/faculty members to build a strong professional network that fosters collaboration, mentorship, and career advancement opportunities. The SheRNI expert network system serves as a dynamic platform for women professionals to connect, collaborate, and empower each other, ultimately contributing to the advancement of women in various fields.
Sofia Qureshi:Colonel
Terror targets were chosen based on credible intelligence and their involvement in cross-border terrorism. No military installation was targeted in Pakistan during 'Operation Sindoor'.
Vyomika Singh: Wing Commander
India has demonstrated considerable restraint in its response. However,
the India Armed Forces are fully prepared to respond to a Pakistani
misadventure, if any, to escalate the situation.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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About IRINS
IRINS is a web-based Research Information Management (RIM) service developed by INFLIBNET Centre. The portal facilitates the academic, R&D organisations and faculty members, scientists to collect, curate and showcase the scholarly communication activities and provide an opportunity to create the scholarly network. The IRINS is available as free software-as-service to the academic and R&D organisations in India.
The IRINS would support to integrate the existing research management system such as HR system, course management, grant management system, institutional repository, open and commercial citation databases, scholarly publishers, etc. It has integrated with academic identity such as ORCID ID, ScopusID, Research ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Google Scholar ID for ingesting the scholarly publication from various sources.
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About Vidya-mitra
Vidya-mitra is an online learning portal for all the e-content projects developed under the NME-ICT (National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology), MHRD. The portal provides facility to search and browse all hosted content wherein a learner can easily access the desired material including audio/video learning material, textual material, multimedia-enriched materials etc. through a single interface. Moreover, features of faceted search, usage statistics, project-wise access, My-Space are incorporated in this portal.
About NME-ICT
National Mission on Education through Information and Communication and Technology (NMEICT) is an ambitious project undertaken by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India with a view to seamlessly providing quality educational content to all the eligible and willing learners in India. It has envisaged content and connectivity as the twin pedals for initiating and accelerating ICT-enabled Higher Education.
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About Vidwan
Expert Database and National Researcher Network
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
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About e-PG Pathshala
e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of
the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT)
being executed by the UGC.
e-Adhyayan
e-Adhyayan is a repository of e-Books for the Under-Graduate & Post-Graduate Courses. The e-Books are being derived from the e-text of e-PG Pathshala and SWAYAM(UGCMoocs). e-PG Pathshala is OER which is being developed and maintain by INFLIBNET Centre.
UGC-MOOCs is one of vertical to produce course on Post Graduate subjects in SWAYAM (Online Courses, An MHRD initiatives). UGC is one of the national coordinator of SWAYAM & INFLIBNET is technical partner for UGC-MOOCs.
ILMS i.e. INFLIBNET Learning Management Service offered by the Information and Library Network Centre (An IUC of UGC) to the institutions of higher education across the country. This service is being offered to all the Central, State and Deemed universities on request basis. It provides pre-populated learning content, derived from e-PG Pathshala: A Gateway to PG Courses, as per the prevailing guidelines of UGC.
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| About INFOPORT: INFLIBNET Subject Gateway for Indian Electronic-Resources |
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The INFLIBNET Centre promotes open access to Indian scholarly content through the
InfoPort: A Subject Gateway for Indian Electronic-Resources. While Centre uses and promotes
Intute, a well-known subject gateway developed by MIMAS, UK, the InfoPort is designed
and developed to serve as a comprehensive gateway to all Indian scholarly content.
The gateway open-ups the Indian scholarly content scattered over the Internet through
an integrated interface that support search, browse and multiple listing. The InfoPort
selectively catalogues online resources of Indian origin on diversified subjects
available in open access through an elaborate process of testing and evaluation.
The Centre proposes to collaborate with librarians and scholars in college and universities
in the process of identification and selection of resources.
The universe of knowledge is divided into different subject groups. According to the Dewey Decimal Classification, the universe of knowledge is scattered from 000 to 999. InfoPort is classified according to DDC, indexed subjectwise and arranged alphabetically subjects. The InfoPort covers Internet resources of Indian origin in the following categories: 
Electronic books, electronic journals and reference sources including dictionaries,
directories, maps etc.;
Institutional repositories, resource gateway, etc.
Wikis, blogs, etc.;
Teaching and learning website;
Lecture Notes, Magazines,:
Portals;
Audio, video and other multimedia learning resources;
Libraries, archives and museums;
News and media services including newspapers, online news services,;
Websites listing current events and activities;
Websites of Major Research projects, especially those supported by national funding
bodies such as UGC, DST, DBT, AICTE, MHRD, DOT, etc.;
Teaching and learning projects website, especially those receiving Government funding;
Universities, colleges, Research and Development Labs, institutions and e-learning
websites.
Indian publishers and subscription agents; and
Listservs and discussion groups, especially those having online archives.InfoPort does not cover resources other than those originated in India. More specifically, it does not include Internet resources of the following kinds:
Website containing information with potentials of promoting illegal activities;
Resources which contravene laws relating to defamation or obscenity;
Resources that do not meet our selection and evaluation criteria;
Resources designed solely for marketing, advertising and for sale of commercial
products;
Sites that do not contain significant online resources beyond simple course descriptions,
staff directories, etc.;
Personal web pages created by and about that individuals; and
Audio, video and multimedia website related to Bollywood, etc.
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INFLIBNET's Institutional Repository
Welcome to the Institutional Repository of INFLIBNET Centre! Here, you can access articles published in all conventional proceedings of INFLIBNET Centre. Additionally, you will find various training materials, press clippings, newsletters, and more.
For any feedback, please reach out to us at irsupport@inflibnet.ac.in
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About Shodh-Chakra
Shodh-Chakra is an initiative of Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre under the guidance of University Grants Commission (UGC) to help the academic community during their research life cycle. Shodh-Chakra provides a unique space to the researcher, guide/supervisor and university to manage the research lifecycle of a research scholar. This will work as a digital workspace wherein researchers can collect, store, organize and cite their research work. The Shodh-Chakra would help researchers to create their profile and manage their preferences. The process of using the portal starts with signing an MoU between University and INFLIBNET Centre. The university/institute has to provide valid information of the researcher and supervisor. Further, researcher can login into system and avail the features of Shodh-Chakra. The system will generate login credentials to researchers, supervisors and universities.
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About Shodhgangotri
Repository of Research in Progress/Synopses MRPs/PDFs/Emeritus Fellowship
The word “Shodh” originates from Sanskrit and stands for “research and discovery”. “Gangotri” is one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas and the source of origination of the Ganges, the holiest, longest, and largest of rivers in India. The Ganges is the symbol of age-long culture, civilization, ever-aging, ever-flowing, ever-loving, and loved by its people.
Under the initiative called “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars/research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit an electronic version of the approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D. programme now it is expanded to MRPs/PDFs/Emeritus Fellowship, etc. The repository on one hand would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand, it would avoid duplication of research. Synopsis in “ShodhGangotri” would later be mapped to full-text theses in "ShodhGanga". As such, once the full-text thesis is submitted for a synopsis, a link to the full-text theses would be provided from ShodhGangotri to "ShodhGanga".
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OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES
| Shodhganga: a reservoir of Indian Theses |
Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. Theses and dissertations remain an un-tapped and under-utilized asset, leading to unnecessary duplication and repetition that, in effect, is the anti-theses of research and wastage of huge resources, both human and financial. |
The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2009 Amendment made on 2016) dated 5th May 2016 mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories, not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research. This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the "poor visibility" and the "unseen" factor in research output. As per the Regulation, the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertation (called "Shodhganga"), accessible to all institutions and universities, is assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre. |
"Shodhganga" is the name coined to denote digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre. The word "Shodh" originates from Sanskrit and stands for research and discovery. The "Ganga" is the holiest, largest and longest of all rivers in Indian subcontinent. The Ganga is the symbol of India's age-long culture and civilisation, everchanging, ever-flowing, ever-loved and revered by its people, and has held India's heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. Shodhganga stands for the reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre. |
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET is set-up using an open source digital repository software called DSpace developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in partnership between Hewlett- Packard (HP). The DSpace uses internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards. Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers. |
DSpace supports "Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) and uses a qualified version of the Dublin Core schema for its metadata. The INFLIBNET Centre, promotes setting-up of institutional and ETD repositories in member universities using OAI-PMH complaint software. A number of member universities have already set-up their institutional and ETD repositories using either DSpace or other OAI-PMH compliant Institutional Repository software. It would be possible for universities having sufficient network and computing infrastructure to maintain their own ETD repositories wherein their research scholars could deposit e-versions of their theses and dissertations. Moreover, they can use Shodhganga to host their theses as backup archives. INFLIBNET Centre, besides maintaining the Central ETD Repository (Shodhganga) would also deploy a central server to harvest the metadata from all such ETD repositories distributed in universities with an aim to provided unified access to theses and dissertations through its harvesting server. |
Shodhganga replicates academic structure of each University in terms of Departments/ Centres/ Colleges each University has to facilitate ease of navigation. This structure facilitates research scholars from universities to deposit their theses in the respective Department / Centre / College. As shown in the Fig 1, option for simple search and advance search are available on the home page along with browsing facility through universities and departments. The Centre is also developing a semantic web-based interface to facilitate subject-based browsing, navigation, search and retrieval of content available in the repository. |
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About INFED
Most of the publishers use IP filtering as a de facto standard for authenticating authorized users in subscribing institutions and providing access to e-resources to them. While IP-based access is most convenient, safe and hassle-free authentication mechanism for publishers as well as for subscribing institutions, it has some limitations. One of the most serious limitation of IP-filtered access to e-resources is that the users can access e-resources only when they are in the Institute campus. Ideally, an authorized user should be able to access e-resources irrespective of his / her physical location at any time as long as he has access to the Internet.
In order to overcome this limitation, the INDIAN Access Management Federation (INFED) has adopted Shibboleth, a standard-based open source software, for authenticating authorized users from institutions and provide them seamless access to e-resources from anywhere, anytime. Shibboleth offers a mechanism for users to access multiple resources within a federated single sign-on framework. The goal of the INFED is to allow users to access internal and external resources seamlessly using a single, institutionally controlled identity. This would not only allow authorized users to access e-resources from anywhere, anytime but would also circumvent the requirement of maintaining multiple passwords for multiple resources in multiple domains.
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InfiStats: Usage Statistics Portal for e-Resource
The InfiStats Usage Statistics Portal is developed by INFLIBNET Centre for monitoring the usage statistics of various e-resources made accessible to the member institutes under e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium. The InfiStats harvests the COUNTER Usage for members through SUSHI Protocol. The InfiStats portal imports the usage data from the publisher's website. The InfiStats interface provides journal title level usage to member institutes. The member institutions can also login to this portal for monitoring the usage of their respective e-resources that are available to them through central funding. The portal also provides an option to include the usage for self-subscribed resources by the member institutions and monitor from the InfiStats portal.
To set up Infistats for monitoring usage statistics of e-resources subscribed by your institute, please register on eSS Online e-Requisition System. Registered members of e-Shodh Sindhu can directly Login to InfiStats from eSS Online e-Resource Requisition System portal by visiting the "Subscribed Resources" Tab.
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Background
The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and e-ShodhSindhu resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.
N-LIST: Four Components
The project has four distinct components, i.e. i) to subscribe and provide access to selected e-ShodhSindhu e-resources to technical institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs) and monitor its usage; ii) to subscribe and provide access to selected INDEST e-resources to selected universities and monitor its usage; iii) to subscribe and provide access of selected e-resources to Govt./ Govt.-aided colleges and monitor its usage; and iv) to act as a Monitoring Agency for colleges and evaluate, promote, impart training and monitor all activities involved in the process of providing effective and efficient access to e-resources to colleges.
The INDEST and UGC-INFONET are jointly responsible for activity listed at i) and ii) above. The INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar is responsible for activities listed at iii) and iv) above. The INFLIBNET Centre is also responsible for developing and deploying appropriate software tools and techniques for authenticating authorized users.
Note: From Year 2014, N-LIST programme is subsumed under e-ShodhSindhu Consortium as college component. The colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing) in India are eligible to get access e-resources under N-LIST programme.
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ShodhShuddhi
Based on the recommendation of Sub-Committee, National Steering Committee (NSC) of e-ShodhSindhu, The Ministry of Education, Govt. of India has initiated a programme "ShodhShuddhi" which provides access to Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) to all Universities/Institutions in India since Sept 1, 2019. 1100+ institutions are identified which includes
- Central Universities
- State Universities
- Deemed to be University
- Private Universities
- Centrally funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs)
- Inter-University Centre (IUCs) of UGC
Under the ShodhShuddhi initiative, Universities and Institutions across the country were provided access to Ouriginal (formerly Urkund), a web-based plagiarism detection software system. This initiative was officially inaugurated by the Former Minister of Education (formerly MHRD) on September 21, 2019, and it continued until the contract with M/s Ouriginal by Turnitin concluded on September 30, 2023. Starting from October 1, 2023, the INFLIBNET Centre now offers the 'DrillBit-Extreme Plagiarism Detection Software' to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as part of the same ShodhShuddhi initiative. The trial phase for this software was scheduled for October 2023, with full-fledged service commenced on November 1, 2023.
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