Three Days Training Programme on Policies and Guidelines for the University Coordinators of Shodhganga and ShodhShuddhi/PDS (in offline mode) organized by INFLIBNET Centre during 04th - 06th Aug, 2025.
More Details || Apply OnlineRevised ShodhShuddhi Guidelines for HEIs, Universities, and Users. ||17.06.2025||
More DetailsThe DrillBit-Extreme software provided through the ShodhShuddhi-PDS initiative has been extended for one more year i.e. up to 31.10.2025 .
||01.11.2024||PDS Service restarted to those Universities that gave Undertaking - for sample form download, Undertaking Form, and send it to pds.help@inflibnet.ac.in for processing.
||06.06.2024|| More DetailsTemporarily Stopping the PDS Service due to Exorbitant Use by HEIs - Regd.||01.06.2024||
More DetailsINFLIBNET Centre, extends the service of DrillBit-Extreme Software provided under the ShodhShuddhi-PDS for another six months. ||30.04.2024||
More DetailsThe DrillBit-Extreme is likely to be extended under the same ShodhShuddhi-PDS initiative. University Coordinators and PDS Users are kindly requested to refrain from sending emails regarding this and to ignore any expiration date displayed on the DrillBit admin/user dashboard. ||23.04.2024||
Successfully Conducted: Three Days Training Programme on Ethical Issues and Use of Plagiarism Detection in Research organized by INFLIBNET Centre during 08th - 10th April 2024
Registration Closed"Northern Regional Training Programme" on ShodhShuddhi/Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) DrillBit, jointly organized by University of Delhi, Delhi, and INFLIBNET Centre, was conducted on 15th February 2024. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/gallery.php
Registration ClosedSuccessfully Conducted: Three Days Training Programme on Research Methodology and Ethics: Plagiarism Issues, Reference Management Tools and Altmetrics organized by INFLIBNET Centre during 07th - 09th February 2024. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/gallery.php
Programme ClosedFAQs for DrillBit-Extreme are now available, please visit @ 'FAQs', and can be found in the menu bar on ShodhShuddhi's website.
Existing users from the earlier Web-Based Plagiarism Detection Software Ouriginal (formerly URKUND) have recently migrated to DrillBit following guidelines. Affiliated users (faculty/scholar) can reset their passwords by clicking on 'Forgot Password?' If users are no longer associated with the University, the 'University Coordinator/DrillBit Administrator' can deactivate them from the 'DrillBit Admin Dashboard' under the 'Users Tab' using the last toggle button in the 'Actions' section. As such complete deletion of users is not available now. ||24.01.2024||
"North-Eastern Regional Training Programme" on ShodhShuddhi/Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) DrillBit, jointly organized by Gauhati University, Assam, and INFLIBNET Centre, was conducted on 29th December 2023. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/training2023.php
Programme Closed"Western Regional Training Programme" on ShodhShuddhi/Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) DrillBit, jointly organized by Gujarat University, Gujarat, and INFLIBNET Centre, was conducted on 11th December 2023. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/training2023.php
Programme Closed"Southern Regional Training Programme (Zone-2)" on ShodhShuddhi/Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) DrillBit, jointly organized by Bangalore University, Bangalore, and INFLIBNET Centre, was conducted on 1st December 2023. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/training2023.php
Programme Closed"Southern Regional Training Programme (Zone-1)" on ShodhShuddhi/Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) DrillBit, jointly organized by Bharathiar University Campus, Thanthi Periyar, and INFLIBNET Centre, was conducted on 29th November 2023. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/training2023.php
Programme Closed"Northern Regional Training Programme" on ShodhShuddhi/Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) DrillBit, jointly organized by Panjab University, Chandigarh, and INFLIBNET Centre, was conducted on 28th November 2023. Please visit at https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/training2023.php
Programme ClosedINFLIBNET Centre is providing DrillBit-Extreme 'Plagiarism Detection Software' to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) under the ShodhShuddhi Programme from 1st October 2023 onward, therefore, no queries related to Ouriginal will be addressed afterwards.
3.5 million (35 lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi (Ouriginal erstwhile URKUND) by member institutions as of 13th September 2023
3.3 million (33 lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi (Ouriginal erstwhile URKUND) by member institutions as of 8th July 2023
3.2 million (32 lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi (Ouriginal erstwhile URKUND) by member institutions as of 10th June 2023
3.0 million (30 lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi (Ouriginal erstwhile URKUND) by member institutions as of 24th April 2023
ETD 2023 website was launched by Hon'ble Chairman of UGC Prof M Jagadesh Kumar on 17th February 2023 at 10:00 AM, in presence of the Director INFLIBNET Centre, other Bureau Heads of UGC, staff of INFLIBNET Centre. Please visit at etd2023.inflibnet.ac.in for details.
2.5 million (25 lakhs) documents crossed for similarity check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi (Ouriginal erstwhile URKUND) by member institutions as of 30th September 2022
ShodhShuddhi (PDS) Status as of 31st May 2022: Total Member Institutions - 1064, Total Users - 129667, and Total Documents Submitted - 2151786
PlagScan by Ouriginal, became a part of the Turnitin family on 7th April 2022 (Company's Announcement) More Details
Ouriginal, formally became a part of Turnitin on 30th November 2021 (Company's Announcement) More Details
Ouriginal had announced the launch of Webinbox-2.0 on 2nd February 2022 More Details
2.0 million (20 lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi by member institutions as of 06th April 2022
1.8 million (18 Lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi by member institutions as of 31th December 2021
15 State Level Online Awareness Programme (PDS-ShodhShuddhi) conducted during June-July 2021 View Gallery
1.0 million (10 lakhs) documents have been submitted for plagiarism check in PDS/ShodhShuddhi by member institutions as of 11th February 2021
15 Online State Level Awareness Programme (PDS-ShodhShuddhi) conducted during July 2020 - August 2020 View Report