One of the major contributions of CSIR has been towards development of human resources for Research and Development. CSIR achieves this by giving research fellowships to young post-graduates for pursuing their doctoral and post-doctoral research at national laboratories and universities. CSIR also supports Extra Mural Research projects at the universities.

Explorations is a digital library of electronic dissertations, theses and research reports of the fellowships and projects supported by CSIR. URDIP is working in close association with the Human Resource Development Group of CSIR and National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT) of DSIR to put this database of basic research in the public domain on the world wide web.