Shodh-Chakra

This will work as a digital workspace where in 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 (Memorandum Of Understanding) 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.

STAKEHOLDERS 

There are following modules/ features available for Stakeholders

RESEARCHERS

• Profile Management 
• Knowledge Resources
• Assistance for Literature work
• Resource Aggregation
• Publication(Workshops & Conferences)
• Reference Management
• Interaction with Guide
• Thesis Submission

GUIDES / SUPERVISORS

• Dashboard
• Profile Management
• Work Progress Tracking
• Interaction with Researchers
• Knowledge Resources

UNIVERSITIES

• Dashboard
• Profile Management (Researcher & Guide)
• Communication / Intimation Module among Researchers, Guides and University
• Work Progress View
• Report Generation 

OBJECTIVES OF SHODH-CHAKRA

• To provide consistent support to the researchers.
• To provide single point access to all the research needs of higher education institutions in India.
• To provide dedicated platform for search, store, organize and manage literature.
• To supply bibliographic information of millions of scholarly communications through the single platform.
• To provide research support to the academic community by amplifying the latest tools for conducting research.
• To empower and educate research scholars in conducting research work.
• To provide interactive platform between guide and researcher.
• To provide single point access to view research activity of all research scholars.
• To understand the research trend across the universities.
• To provide a single portal for managing researcher, guide, and university’s research activity.

FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS

• The Shodh-Chakra creates and maintains research profile of scholar & guide.
• It provides access to more than 3.5 lakhs full-text theses.
• It helps researcher to find out relevant literature from millions of scholarly articles from Shodhganga,Google Scholar, IRINS, Crossref and other databases.
• Store, collect, organize and manage scholarly resources in a personalized resource space known as My Library.
• It stores information of Scholarship/Fellowship received by a researchers and other administrative details of the researchers.
• Single search box to find out resources using keywords from major metadata fields.
• The Shodh-Chakra provides access to pre-populated Knowledge Resources that are useful sources of information for a researcher before beginning the research work. (Shodhganga, MOOCs Module on Research Ethics, etc.),
• It gathers information of upcoming seminars/workshops and conferences in all the fields across the country on participatory approach.
• It has a unique feature to mark the favourite resource so that it can be referred in future while preparing the manuscript.
• Reference management tool (Zotero) is integrated with a portal that will help researchers to manage resources.
• It also facilitates researchers to annotate the resources.

website source:https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/