PU Launches the PU Shodh-Chakra Portal for Researchers

Chandigarh, September 23, 2024: Panjab University (PU) Vice-Chancellor, Prof Renu Vig today launched PU Shodh-Chakra Portal for the researchers and supervisors of the university.
 
The key initiative is a project of INFLIBNET Centre under the guidance of University Grants Commission (UGC) to help the university for managing its research life cycle.
 
Shodh Chakra will provide a unique space to the researcher, supervisor and the university to manage their research lifecycle, starting from registration to thesis submission.             
 
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Renu Vig appreciated the initiative and expressed hope that the comprehensive portal would be beneficial to the university researchers.
 
Prof Vig suggested for organising awareness workshops for the research scholars and supervisors for its maximum utilisation. On one hand, it will bring greater transparency while on the other hand, the data generated and collected through this portal would also be useful for submitting information to NAAC and other ranking and funding agencies.
 
Prof Harsh Nayyar, Director R&DC said that Shodh Chakra is a profile and Resources Management System where guide and researcher can interact online. He informed that the access to all the thesis available through the Shodhganga portal and scholarly resources would be available to all researchers on 24X7 basis from anywhere. He told that a proper mechanism would be developed for all the research scholars and supervisors to create their profiles and necessary proformas will be prepared to ensure that all researchers create their profiles and enter necessary data into this portal.
 
Dr. Neeraj Kumar Singh, PU Deputy Librarian and Nodal officer of this project highlighted that Shodh-Chakra@Panjab University portal is ready for use as necessary data to start this facility at PU has already been entered into this portal. He further added that the portal had access to more than 3.5 lakhs full-text theses; relevant literature from millions of scholarly articles from Shodhganga, Google Scholar, IRINS, Crossref and other databases. It enables researchers to manage scholarly resources in a personalised resource space known as My Library; has information of Scholarship/Fellowship received by a researcher, etc. It offers single search box to locate resources using keywords from major metadata fields; access to pre-populated Knowledge Resources; as also information of upcoming seminars/workshops and conferences in all the fields across the country on participatory approach. Reference management tool (Zotero) is integrated with the portal to help researchers to manage resources.
 
The Director, Computer Centre, PU Prof Anu Gupta and Prof Naveen Agarwal from UIET, members of the committee also said that Shodhchakra provides a digital workspace wherein researchers can collect, store, organize and cite their research work.