Page 3 - Annual Report 2016_17

From the Director's Desk

Dr. Jagdish Arora
Director

I am pleased to present the Annual Report of the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre,

April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017 to the academic community in India. Successful launch of India Rankings
2016 under the National Institutional Ranking Framework by Smt. Smriti Irani, the then Honourable
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Minister of Human Resource Development on 4 April 2016 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi paved a new
path for the Centre. The Centre was assigned the task of developing web portal for India Rankings 2016

as well as for India Rankings 2017 along with the responsibility of providing data on publications,
citations and patents from Web of Science, Scopus, Indian Citation Index and Thomson Innovation for
applicant institutions.

The INFLIBNET Centre kept playing a pivotal role in the process of ranking and its contributions were

duly acknowledged during the launch of India Rankings 2016 as well as India Rankings 2017. Six
scientists from INFLIBNET Centre were invited to witness launching of India Rankings 2017 by
Honourable Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India, at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The INFLIBNET and

NBA signed MoUs with Clarivate Analytics and Elsevier Science for retrieval and verification of data on
publications and citations for institutions that were applicant for India Rankings 2017. I would like to put
on record that a team of young scientists from INFLIBNET Centre worked day and night with full
dedication to make India Rankings 2016 and 2017 possible. Our experience of evolving ranking of Indian

universities using bibliometric parameters (http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/iur/) proved useful in the process
of evolving India Rankings 2016 and 2017.

The technical capabilities of the Centre, as demonstrated through projects like e-PG Pathshala,
Vidya-mitra, SWAYAM, e-Shodh Sindhu, etc. were duly recognized by the MHRD and a project on

development of website of SWAYAM-PRABHA and its hosting including archival videos for 32 channels
was assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre. SWAYAM-PRABHA is conceived as a group of 32 DTH channels
completely devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24x7 basis using the (2)
GSAT-15 transponders. Every day new content for at least four hours would be telecasted which would

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