In India, at the beginning of 21st century, the World Wide Web has connected the peoples and communities globally to share information and knowledge in the world on internet. It became a best practice to find a place connected to the Internet, where information can be published and that can be found on the World Wide Web called website.
 
As Internet and websites will be a huge platform for information exchange and dissemination in the field of higher education in the 21st century, universities in maharashtra taken initiatives to have a website. Considering this potential future by the then Vice Chancellor of Shivaji University, Dr. M. G. Takwale taken rapid action. To develop a website for Shivaji University, a committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Dr. V.B. Jugale, (Professor in Economics), Dr. K. K. Kavalekar (Professor, Political Science), Dr. Jay Samant(Professor, Environment Science), Dr. Ravindra Thakur(Professor, Marathi) and Dr. Jagannath Patil (Assistant Registrar) were appointed as member secretaries. The Vice-Chancellor gave all the necessary approvals on behalf of University Authorities and Management, making it easier for the Committee to carry out its work within the immediate timeframe. All the work of the website was completed within a month after completing all the administrative process including the tender.

On May 20, 2002, the then Revenue Minister of Maharashtra, Hon'ble Shri. Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar launched www.shivajiuniversity.com as the official website of Shivaji University on the Internet. The program was chaired by Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Dr. M. G. Takwale, Hon’ble Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. V. M. Chavan, I/c. Registrar Dr. S. H. Pawar along with committee members, university students, research students, teachers, officials and staff were present on the occasion. As per the recommendation of the committee, a separate Website Cell was set up to update the daily information on the website of the university and a budget provision of Rs. 1.50 lakh was made. A project assistant was appointed for the day-to-day work from December 2002 and the day-to-day running of the website began.

Information about various activities of the university, workshops, conferences, lectures, results of various examinations, admission process, circulars, etc. were started on the university website. The use of the website in the day-to-day running of the administration gradually increased. At the same time, the changes in the advanced technology in the Internet have underlined the fact that the name .com is not compatible with the field of education. Therefore, in the year 1999, while using the Internet for the first time in the university, use the domain name (website name) registered under the telegram name of the university, “unishivaji”. The name of the official website of Shivaji University has been changed to www.unishivaji.ac.in from 31st July 2003. For some time after, the registration of the name “.com” was attached to the website “.ac.in”.

From the year 2004, the then Vice Chancellor Dr. M. M. Salunkhe's career began to make remarkable and substantial achievements. On 19th October, 2004, Dr. Salunkhe, Vice Chancellor, inaugurated the INTRANET facility for the Academic Departments and Administrative Sections of the University Campus based on the "Paperless Office Concept". The concept of intranet was also demonstrated at a meeting of the Management Council under the direction of the Vice-Chancellor. Information about teachers, teaching staff, and students began to be given on the intranet. Circulars issued by the office, invitation leaflets for events, annual rate agreements and other useful information began to be shared on the intranet. On campus information sharing on intranet became gradually a part of routine administrative work. 

Further Website Cell started attempting for information sharing and automation by using internet and web technology in routine academic and administrative activities. Online Syllabi of various courses (2004), Library's first Online E-Journal access page (2004), Online External Students Registration System (2005), Online Student Feedback System (2005), Shivsandesh's Online e-Bulletin (2005), Meeting Agenda on CD (2005), Syllabus of various courses on CD (2005), Online Entrance Exam Application (2006), Online Full Statement of Marks (2006), Online Convocation Application (2007), Online Registration of Graduates (2010), Online Application System for Study Boards for collecting information about HOD’s of College / University Departments (2010), Online Registration for M.Phil./Ph.D. Entrance Test (2011), Online Registration for Conference Delegates (2011), Online Alumni Registration (2011) etc. were designed, developed, implemented for the first time in the history of the university. Various online softwares (web applications) such as Online Teaching Recruitment Portal (2012) were developed in-house on their own. Overseeing the day-to-day maintenance of the website, the Website Cell began to use technology in the administrative work of the university. The concepts of most of the above initiatives started by the Website Cell are still in use by the university administration today.

In particular, the Online Student Feedback System was successfully implemented for nine consecutive years from 2005 to 2013. The NAAC committee visited in 2009 for second cycle of accreditation had demonstration of Online Student Feedback System. Committee appreciated the feedback mechanism and noted in its report. The then Vice Chancellor Dr. MM Salunkhe used the report from the Feedback System during the teachers' CAS (Career Advancement Scheme) process. Dr. Salunkhe's faith in the Feedback System was strengthened as the report of the internal NAAC Committee, the report in the Feedback System and the Vice-Chancellor's own examination came to almost the same conclusion.

Similarly, Online Teaching Recruitment Portal was implemented successfully between 2012 and 2014 as per Vice Chancellor Dr. N.J.Pawar's directives. A total of 288 permanent and seasonal teachers were recruited through 23 advertisements. In June 2012, the government had directed the university to immediately fill the vacancies in the salary grant within six months. The online portal developed by the Website Cell for teacher recruitment made it possible for the university to fill the vacancies in time.

During the period of 2002-2013, University’s website was re-designed thrice viz. 2005, 2011 and 2013 out of which two times it is re-designed with in-house expertise. i.e. 2005 & 2011.  

In order to save time, money and manpower by using technology, various initiatives were taken by the Website Cell. Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Dr.M. M. Salunkhe (2004-2009), Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Dr. N. J. Pawar(2010-2015), the then co-ordinators Dr. S.R. Sawant, Dr. R.K. Kamat, Mrs. Kharade, Dr. M.J. Joshi and Dr. P.N. Bhosale, Head of Website, provided valuable guidance. Mr. Amol Ghunake worked for design, development, sever managment and implementation tasks technical and day-to-day administrative work from 2002 to 2013 as the Project Assistant of the Website Cell.

Due to lack of manpower, the website www.unishivaji.ac.in has been outsourced for routine updates since April 2013.
 

Although the number of visitors to the library internet hall has decreased due to the expansion of internet facility in everywhere in the campus, the library internet hall is still being used by the students coming from outside the campus to submit and print their online forms, the staff of affiliated colleges still visit to update their forms.