Online Collaborative Research Platform:ATool to Scholars with a Special Study on Research Scholars of Gauhati University

Abstract

This paper discusses the modern research methods, which are available now in open access cloud based system, through online networking models. Our research as well as researcher has nowreached worldwide, and we are truly in the age of information transfer and sharing world, where we all want to share our ideas and information and in return collect some other information. In near future, tool like Academia.edu, Knimbus, ResearchGate, Mendeley definitely rule the world of sharing. Now capacity building can be possible through collaborative tools in the era of ICT. The paper also gives a case study on research community of Gauhati University, who feels this type of platform has enormous potentiality