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For Deans of R&D & IQAC Teams

University Research
Management Software (RIMS)

One record for all your research. Track grants from the DST proposal to the utilisation certificate, verify faculty papers against Scopus, follow patents from filing to revenue, and keep every PhD scholar on schedule — with NIRF data that builds itself as you go.

DST · SERB · UGC · AICTE grants Scopus & Web of Science citations h-index auto-calculation Patent filing to commercialisation NIRF RPC data feed

In short: CampusAlly is research management software for Indian universities — the institutional research record. It tracks DST/SERB/UGC grants, holds a publication repository with Scopus-verified citations, runs patent and PhD-scholar workflows, and feeds your NIRF (RPC) and NAAC Criterion III data to the accreditation module, which produces the AQAR and SSR. The library stores the theses and papers themselves.

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Full grant lifecycle
Proposal to UC/SoE in one place, with a live balance per budget head.
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Verified citations
h-index and citations pulled from Scopus and Web of Science, not self-entered.
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Patent lifecycle
Disclosure to commercialisation, with costs and dates on every stage.
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PhD on track
DC meetings, coursework and progress reports, one record per scholar.
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NIRF data feed
RPC evidence compiled from live records and sent to accreditation.
Funding sources you can track
🏛️ DST 🔬 SERB 📚 UGC ⚙️ AICTE 🧬 ICMR 🌱 DBT 🛡️ DRDO 🏗️ Industry MoUs 🌍 International grants 🏦 Internal seed money
The yearly research-data hunt

Why NIRF and NAAC season is so painful

  • 📊 Faculty papers collected over email, with no way to confirm impact factor or citation counts.
  • 💰 DST and SERB grants live in separate Excel sheets, so UCs are rebuilt by hand before every audit.
  • 🔬 PhD progress is tracked informally — no record of DC meetings, coursework or submission dates.
  • 📜 Patent status spreads by word of mouth — no central log of filing dates, fees or grant status.
  • 📈 NIRF RPC data is stitched from a dozen sources across departments — weeks of work each January.

CampusAlly research closes every gap

  • Faculty submit papers; citations are cross-checked against Scopus and Web of Science.
  • All grants in one dashboard — tranches, budget heads, and UC/SoE generated for you.
  • Every PhD scholar tracked end to end — DC meetings, coursework, reports, fees in one record.
  • Patents logged from disclosure to commercialisation, with costs and licensing revenue.
  • NIRF RPC evidence compiled from live data and handed to the accreditation module.
What the record holds

The whole research lifecycle, in one record

From the first grant proposal to the last PhD thesis — here's what the research module tracks.

Publications, citations & patents

Faculty publication repository with Scopus citations
Publication repository

One verified record of your institution's research output — journals, conferences, book chapters — ready for NAAC and NIRF without a last-minute scramble.

  • Structured records — Each paper tagged with journal, ISSN, impact factor, quartile (Q1–Q4), Scopus/WoS indexing, DOI and date. Searchable by faculty, department or year.
  • Scopus & WoS verification — Citation counts and h-index pulled by API from the indexing databases, so the figures aren't self-reported.
  • h-index, auto — Institution, department and faculty h-index update as citations are fetched.
  • Proof storage — PDFs, acceptance letters and proofs kept for auditors. The full files live in the library's digital repository.
  • Self-service + verification — Faculty submit through their portal; the HOD or R&D cell approves before it joins the official record.
Patent and IPR management workflow for universities
Patents & IPR

Track every patent from the first invention disclosure to commercialisation, with all costs and milestones on one record.

  • End-to-end workflow — Disclosure → filed → published → examination → granted → commercialised, each transition timestamped.
  • Cost log — Attorney fees, filing charges and renewals recorded per patent, for a full financial record of each IPR asset.
  • Technology transfer — Log licensing agreements, royalty terms and revenue, so you can see which patents earn for the institution.
  • NAAC & NIRF evidence — Patent data feeds Criterion III and NIRF RPC evidence — no separate compilation at submission time.

Research grant lifecycle

DST SERB UGC research grant management
External grants — DST, SERB, UGC & more

No more grant documents in email threads. Every funded project gets a full digital record — proposal to final audit.

  • Pre-award — Log proposals to DST, SERB, UGC, AICTE, ICMR, DBT and DRDO; track deadlines, review feedback and resubmissions on one dashboard.
  • Post-award — Record tranches and track spend across heads (equipment, travel, manpower, consumables, overhead) with a live balance per head.
  • UC & SoE — Generate Utilisation Certificates and Statements of Expenditure for tranche release and project closure.
  • Expiry alerts — A heads-up before a project end date or budget exhaustion, so PIs can re-allocate or request an extension.
  • Equipment link — Grant-bought equipment is tagged to the project ID in inventory; the research record reads that link for an auditable spend-to-asset trail.
Internal seed money research grant management
Internal seed money

Run your own funding programmes with the same rigour as external grants — proposals, peer review, milestone disbursement and output tracking.

  • Call for proposals — Launch internal schemes online; faculty apply through a structured form with deadlines set by the R&D cell.
  • Blind peer review — Assign reviewers who score against a configured rubric; scores aggregate for the committee decision.
  • Milestone-based release — The next tranche opens only when the previous progress report is approved.
  • Output tracking — Link publications, patents and student outcomes to each seed project to see the return on internal investment.

PhD scholars & research visibility

PhD scholar progress tracking
PhD scholar management

Scholars slip through the cracks over a 3–5 year journey — missed DC meetings, incomplete coursework, late submissions. This keeps each one on track.

  • Registration & profile — One record per scholar: supervisor, co-supervisor, area, funding source and registration date. Stipends run through payroll.
  • Doctoral Committee — Schedule DC meetings, send reminders, and record minutes and recommendations; six-monthly reviews tracked end to end.
  • Coursework & credits — Track mandatory coursework and credits, flagging anyone short of prerequisites before thesis submission.
  • Milestones — Coursework → synopsis → pre-submission seminar → thesis → viva, with alerts when a milestone is overdue.
  • Scholar fees — PhD and M.Phil fees handled separately through the finance module.
Research analytics dashboard for Dean of R&D
Research analytics & collaboration map

Give the Dean of R&D real research visibility — live data, not a report stitched together over two weeks each NIRF season.

  • h-index dashboard — Institution, college and department h-index updated from Scopus/WoS data, with year-on-year trend graphs.
  • Collaboration map — Visualise inter-departmental, international and industry research links, and spot the broadest networks.
  • Funding pipeline — Active grant value, funds used vs remaining, upcoming renewals and pending proposals on one screen.
  • NIRF RPC data feed — Compile the Research and Professional Practice evidence — grants, publications, patents, PhD output, consultancy — and hand it to the accreditation module that builds the NIRF and NAAC reports.
Patent lifecycle

Every stage of a patent, on one record

From the first invention disclosure to licensing revenue — each milestone, cost and status logged as it happens.

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Disclosure

Faculty submit the invention; the R&D cell reviews novelty and patentability.

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Filed

Application filed to the patent office; filing date and number logged.

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Published

Published in the gazette; publication number and legal fees recorded.

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Examination

Objections, responses and hearing dates managed in the workflow.

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Granted

Grant date, renewal calendar and total cost-to-grant recorded.

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Commercialised

Licensing terms, transfer agreements and royalty revenue tracked.

Who it's for

Built for everyone who manages research

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Dean of Research / R&D Cell
No live view of total research output and the grant portfolio

A dashboard with active grant value, h-index trends, patents in pipeline and PhD status — no waiting on department reports.

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Principal Investigator
Tracking fund use across budget heads; UCs rebuilt by hand before audits

A live utilisation view per head, with UC and SoE generated when the reporting period closes — so the PI does research, not paperwork.

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IQAC / NAAC Coordinator
Criterion III research data scattered across departments

All research output centralised and handed to the accreditation module for Criterion III — so it's audit-ready year-round.

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PhD Supervisors
Scholar progress tracked informally — minutes in personal files

A structured view of every scholar's milestones, with DC records, progress reports and submission dates documented digitally.

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Faculty Researchers
Rebuilding CVs by hand for promotions and grant applications

A complete profile — verified publications, grants, patents and citations — downloadable as a formatted research CV for promotion dossiers.

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Management / Registrar
NIRF RPC data takes weeks of departmental coordination

RPC evidence compiled from live records, with year-on-year comparison built in — no manual aggregation across schools.

Your NIRF and NAAC scores rest on research data

NIRF's Research and Professional Practice parameter is a big share of the ranking, and NAAC Criterion III covers research, innovation and extension. CampusAlly keeps that data live and feeds the evidence to the accreditation module — which is what generates the AQAR, SSR and NIRF reports. No annual data hunt.

NIRF RPC evidence Criterion III data Scopus-verified papers Grant utilisation certificates Patent portfolio PhD output
See the NAAC Accreditation module →
FAQ

Questions Deans of R&D and IQAC teams ask

University research management software (RIMS) is the institutional research record. It tracks the full research lifecycle for a college — external grants (DST, SERB, UGC), a faculty publication repository with Scopus and Web of Science citation verification, patent and IPR workflows, and PhD scholar progress. CampusAlly's RIMS is built for Indian higher education and feeds NIRF and NAAC Criterion III data to the accreditation module, which generates the AQAR and SSR.
Yes. CampusAlly connects to Scopus and Web of Science by API to fetch citation counts, h-index and publication metadata for faculty profiles. Because the figures come from the indexing databases rather than self-entry, the institutional record holds verified data — which is what flows into NIRF and NAAC submissions.
CampusAlly covers the full grant lifecycle. Pre-award, it tracks proposals, deadlines and agency feedback for DST, SERB, UGC, AICTE, ICMR, DBT and DRDO. Post-award, it records fund tranches and budget heads (equipment, travel, manpower, consumables, overhead) with a live balance per head, and generates Utilisation Certificates (UC) and Statements of Expenditure (SoE) for tranche release and project closure.
CampusAlly compiles the data NIRF's Research and Professional Practice (RPC) parameter needs — external grants received, Scopus/WoS-indexed publications, patents filed and granted, PhD scholars and h-index — and feeds it to the accreditation module, which generates the actual NIRF and NAAC reports. The research module owns the record; the accreditation module owns the report.
CampusAlly tracks the patent lifecycle stage by stage — invention disclosure, filed, published, under examination, granted, commercialised — with each transition timestamped. Legal fees and filing costs are logged per patent, and technology-transfer agreements and royalty revenue are recorded once commercialised. That patent record feeds NAAC Criterion III and NIRF RPC evidence.
CampusAlly follows a research scholar from registration to viva. It schedules Doctoral Committee (DC) meetings, records minutes and action items, tracks coursework and credit completion, manages six-monthly progress reports, and alerts when a milestone is overdue. Scholar fees are handled through the finance module rather than mixed with regular student fees.
Yes. CampusAlly runs internal, university-funded research programmes the same way as external grants — a call for proposals, structured online applications by faculty, blind peer-review scoring, approval, and milestone-based fund release where the next tranche only opens once the previous progress report is approved. Outputs like publications and patents are tracked against each seed-money project.
Yes. Equipment bought under a grant is tagged with the grant project ID in the inventory module, which tracks it through procurement, GRN and depreciation. The research module reads that link, so there is an auditable chain between a grant's spend and the physical asset — useful for DST, SERB and UGC utilisation audits.
Yes. Faculty submit publications and patent filings through a self-service portal, and each entry passes a verification step — reviewed by the Head of Department or the R&D cell before it joins the official record. Scopus and Web of Science cross-checks confirm the citation figures automatically.
The research module owns the publication record — the metadata, citations, grants and patents that count toward NIRF and NAAC. The library module stores the underlying files, including theses and papers in the digital repository. In short, research holds the record of the work; the library holds the work itself.
Ready to put your research in one place?

Make your institution's research visible — and NIRF-ready, all year.

See CampusAlly research in a 30-minute demo — grant tracking, Scopus verification, the PhD workflow and the NIRF RPC feed included. No commitment.