DHARA
| Languages | English |
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| Access | |
| Providers | AVP Research Foundation |
| Cost | Free |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Ayurveda; Life Sciences; Health Sciences |
| Temporal coverage | 2010-present |
| Geospatial coverage | Worldwide |
| No. of records | > 8000 |
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DHARA - Digital Helpline for Ayurveda Research Abstracts is first ever, online scientific citation indexing service in Ayurveda.[1] In 2010, The DHARA project was an offshoot of a collaborative initiative between Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), New Delhi, The Ayurvedic Trust (AVT)- AVT Institute for Advanced Research (AVTAR)(now AVP Research Foundation, Coimbatore, and Swiss Ayurveda Medical Academy (SAMA), Switzerland. It covers nearly 4598 titles which have published at the least one article related to Ayurveda.[2] All journals covered in the DHARA database, are reviewed each time-to-time to ensure standards.
Overview[edit]
DHARA includes any research article published on Ayurveda in research journals that meet basic editorial standards. In other words, the journal should have an independent editorial board and accept articles for publication only after internal editorial review and external peer review. Articles published in magazines and unpublished theses and dissertations are not included for indexing in DHARA. Research articles dealing directly or indirectly with research findings related to Ayurveda are accepted. Relevant articles from other systems of complementary and alternative medicine are also included after scrutiny, if they refer to Ayurveda in the content or deal with a drug, therapy, instrument, or any procedure which is also used in Ayurveda.[3]
Funding[edit]
The DHARA project was financially supported by CCRAS, Dept. of AYUSH, Govt. of India (now Ministry of AYUSH, for a period of one year from August 2010 to July 2011. Further development and maintenance of the bibliography database was being continued by The Ayurvedic Trust till 2012 through AVTAR. AVP Research Foundation is currently maintaining DHARA it with funding of good will supporters from 2012 till date.
Advantages by inclusion in DHARA[edit]
- Be recognised as a title that has accepted papers related to Ayurveda
- Gain international visibility
- Increase possibility of citation by authors publishing content related to Ayurveda
- Increase the opportunity for collaboration with other researchers from around the worldh
- Each article will be assigned with a DHARA ID
- Be contributing to the wider scholarly community in the specialist subject field
DHARA ID[edit]
A DHARA ID (DHARA identifier number) is a unique integer value, starting at 1, assigned to each each article indexed in DHARA.
The assignment of a DHARA to a publication tells the reader nothing about the type or quality of the content as in case of [PMID]. DHARA IDs are assigned to letters to the editor, editorials, op-ed columns, and any other piece that the editor chooses to include in the journal, as well as peer-reviewed papers. The existence of the identification number is also not proof that the papers have not been retracted for fraud, incompetence, or misconduct. The announcement about any corrections to original papers may be assigned a DHARA ID.
References[edit]
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- ↑ http://dharaonline.org/Forms/About.aspx
- ↑ http://dharaonline.org/DharaJournals
- ↑ Manohar Pr, Eranezhath S, Mahapatra A, Manohar S. DHARA: Digital Helpline for Ayurveda Research Articles. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. 2012;3(2):97.
