Indian Institutes of Technology and the Pursuit of Capitalising Knowledge

Aligning with other funders such as Horizon 2020, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) requires researcherswho apply for project funding to provide a Data Management Plan (DMP) as an integral part of their research proposal.In an attempt to assist and guide researchers filling out this document, and to provide a service as efficient as possible, the libraries of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and ETH Zurich took the lead to elaborate on a DMP template with content suggestions and recommendations. In this practice paper, we will describe the collaborative effort between the two Swiss federal institutes of technology, namely EPFL and ETH Zurich, as well as some partners of the national Data Life Cycle Management (DLCM) project, which resulted in a very helpful document as reported by our researchers.

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Making Merit: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417515000043 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 291-322 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Ajantha Subramanian

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

The State ◽

Social Embeddedness ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Relational Approach ◽

Institutes Of Technology ◽

The Social ◽

State Capital

AbstractThe politics of meritocracy at the Indian Institutes of Technology illuminates the social life of caste in contemporary India. I argue that the IIT graduate's status depends on the transformation of privilege into merit, or the conversion of caste capital into modern capital. Analysis of this process calls for a relational approach to merit. My ethnographic research on the southeastern state of Tamilnadu, and on IIT Madras located in the state capital of Chennai, illuminates claims to merit, not simply as the transformation of capital but also as responses to subaltern assertion. Analyzing meritocracy in relation to subaltern politics allows us to see the contextual specificity of such claims: at one moment, they are articulated through the disavowal of caste, at another, through caste affiliation. This marking and unmarking of caste suggests a rethinking of meritocracy, typically assumed to be a modernist ideal that disclaims social embeddedness and disdains the particularisms of caste and race. I show instead that claims to collective belonging and to merit are eminently commensurable, and become more so when subaltern assertion forces privilege into the foreground. Rather than the progressive erasure of ascribed identities in favor of putatively universal ones, we are witnessing the re-articulation of caste as an explicit basis for merit and the generation of newly consolidated forms of upper-casteness.

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Research Performance of the National Institutes of Technology in India

Current Science ◽

10.18520/cs/v115/i11/2025-2036 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 115 (11) ◽

pp. 2025 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sumit Kumar Banshal ◽

Tanu Solanki ◽

Vivek Kumar Singh

Keyword(s):

Research Performance ◽

Institutes Of Technology

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Institutional Repositories Initiated by Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology ◽

10.14429/djlit.35.4.8215 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 293-298

Author(s):

Santosh C.Hulagabali

Keyword(s):

Institutional Repositories ◽

Institutes Of Technology

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Collection building trend among the institutes of higher learning in India: a preferential race between print and electronic resources

Collection Building ◽

10.1108/cb-08-2016-0018 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 119-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ramesh Pandita ◽

Shivendra Singh

Keyword(s):

Human Resource Development ◽

Higher Learning ◽

University Libraries ◽

Electronic Resources ◽

Ranking List ◽

Content Type ◽

Electronic Documents ◽

Institutes Of Technology ◽

Engineering And Technology ◽

The University

Purpose The present study aims to assess the resource procurement preferences among the leading academic libraries of the institutes of higher learning across India. The study analyses the amount and percentage of budget spent by the institutions under study during the period 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 on the procurement of print and electronic resources in their libraries. The study also discusses about concerns with regard to the subscription of e-resources and the reasons for weaning interest among the Indian academicians towards the print resources. Design/methodology/approach By and large, the scope of the study is limited to institutes of higher learning across India, but reflects a great deal of relevance to the global higher education practices. The study has been undertaken on the 20 leading institutes each from Universities, Institutes of Management and Institutes of Technology in India, based on the ranking list released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, on 4 April 2016. Findings The electronic documents are the dominant forms of present day library procurements in India, with the print struggling to retain its readership. The Institutes of Engineering and Technology and Management have almost similar procurement preferences, spending almost three-fourth of their library budgets on the procurement of e-documents. On average, the University libraries in India have spent 43.54 per cent of their budget on the procurement of print resources and 56.46 per cent of their budget on the procurement of electronic resources during the period of study. Similarly, on average, each Institute of Engineering and Technology has spent 24.04 per cent of their library budget on the procurement of print documents and 75.96 per cent towards the procurement of electronic resources, whereas 27.51 per cent of the library budget by the Institutes of Management in India is being spent on the procurement of print resources and 72.49 per cent towards the procurement of electronic resources. Originality/value The study is original and is first of its kind, undertaken on three different category of institutions, based on the national ranking of the country.

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