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is broadened to include top universities, engineering and management institutes. The agenda of the
2016 Higher Education Forum was built around the objective of ”Leading the way in institutional

ranking”. The forum commenced with the guest address from Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director INFLIBNET
Centre. Dr. Arora highlighted the significance of this platform for getting together such a distinguished
audience to discuss the important concerns of the day and the role of eSS in NIRF ranking analysis. He
emphasized on the role of librarians in projecting their respective universities/institutes towards the
road to excellence.

Mr. Lim Kok Keng, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Elsevier shared his views on how Elsevier is working

with the universities globally to support research, education & internationalization through various
tools & services. Dr. Youngsuk “YS” Chi, Chairman, Elsevier shared his exciting view on institutional
benchmarking simplified through example of Ms. Dipa Karmakar, who was ranked 4 in Gymnastics in
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2016 Olympics. He mentioned that the example of Dipa Karmakar conveys that not only the top ranking

colleges that are benefitted by the ranking but also it helps in setting goals for the others and creating
the roadmap for the future. Dr. Chi mentioned that by 2025 India would be having the largest population
of university going students, it would be best to start working towards providing a great base for them
and Elsevier is committed to provide the best technological support for the same.

Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri, Director, IIM, Tiruchirappalli highlighted the significance of branding and how we
can utilize the nuances to channelize our higher education rankings towards providing Indian

alternatives to international education centres. Dr Charon Duermeijer, Senior Director, Academic
Customer Engagement, Elsevier shared her views on the significance of rankings in the global scenario
and how different countries are promoting internationalization of research through their policies to
foster growth in the ranking lists.

Dr. Chuin Peng Sim, Senior Associate and University Librarian, NUS Library, Singapore presented the

concept of embedded librarianship which NUS is successfully using towards providing better resources
to its researchers. Prof. W.N. Gade, Vice Chancellor, University of Pune made presentation on
“strategies to improve institutional ranking. He raised some important concerns on the standardization
of rankings and how the higher education centres should strive towards providing better human
resources for tomorrow and thus bring about a social transformation in the country. Ms. Kylie Chiew,
Regional Solution Sales Director- APAC, Research Management shared her insights on Indian research

scenario using the SciVal tool. Dr. T. J. Dhilip Kumar, Associate Dean, In-charge of Institutional Ranking,
IIT Ropar shared detailed information on NIRF and how IIT-Ropar, a relatively newer entrant to IIT group
walked that path.

Dr. R.C. Gaur, University Librarian, JNU shared his thoughts on role of academic libraries in institutional
ranking. He brought a fresh perspective to the changing needs and roles of librarians with the advent of

e-resources. He aptly showed that publishing output is directly linked to the usage pattern of an
institute. Mr. Vinod Kaw, Regional Sales Manager South Asia, Elsevier shared with the audience how

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