Purpose

This study aims to seek the causative relationship between the library budget and research output with the ranking of 20 leading medial institutes in India. More so, the study also attempts to find out whether the libraries associated with academic and research institutes in general and medical institutes in particular have turned redundant or irrelevant, or have become more relevant in the changing times by embracing technology in its every new form.

Design/methodology/approach

The study is based on the secondary data retrieved from the official website of the Ministry of Education, Government of India and research output against each institution under study has been retrieved from Scopus. The study is limited to Indian medical institutions that participated in the 2019 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), conducted by the Ministry of Education, India each year. The findings of the study can be generalized to all the medical institutions of the country.

Findings

On average, INR 160.90m were spent by each medical institute on the procurement of library resources at an average of INR 0.104m on procurement of resources against each individual published research article. Of the total research articles published by medical institutes under study, 26.39% of research articles were published by researchers from AIIMS, New Delhi, alone.

Research limitations/implications

Financial aid or funding is very vital for the survival, sustenance and excellence of research institutions, and this funding becomes more important when the investigation is aimed toward the furtherance of medical advances. Any medical advancement is hell-bent to influence the overall welfare and betterment of society at large, whereby the benefit of any investment made in medical science is bound to be reaped by one and all alike.

Originality/value

In India, a good number of studies have been undertaken on the NIRF data to dive deeper to assess the role and importance of libraries in the overall ranking of institutions like universities, management institutes, engineering and technology institutes, but no major study has been so far conducted covering leading medical institutes in India. The study is the original and first of its kind undertaken in India.

中文翻译：

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图书馆投资回报：寻求图书馆投资与机构研究产出之间的因果关系

目的

本研究旨在通过印度 20 家领先医疗机构的排名来寻求图书馆预算与研究产出之间的因果关系。更重要的是，该研究还试图找出与学术和研究机构相关的图书馆，尤其是与医疗机构相关的图书馆是否已经变得多余或无关紧要，或者通过采用各种新形式的技术在不断变化的时代变得更加相关。

设计/方法/途径

该研究基于从印度政府教育部官方网站检索到的二手数据，并且从 Scopus 检索了针对每个研究机构的研究成果。该研究仅限于参与印度教育部每年进行的 2019 年国家机构排名框架 (NIRF) 的印度医疗机构。研究结果可推广到全国所有医疗机构。

发现

每个医疗机构平均花费 1.609 亿印度卢比购买图书馆资源，平均花费 10.4 亿印度卢比购买每篇发表的研究文章的资源。在所研究的医疗机构发表的研究论文总数中，仅新德里 AIIMS 的研究人员就发表了 26.39% 的研究论文。

研究局限性/影响

财政援助或资金对于研究机构的生存、维持和卓越非常重要，当研究旨在促进医学进步时，这种资金变得更加重要。任何医学进步都必然会影响整个社会的整体福利和改善，因此对医学科学进行的任何投资都必然会为所有人带来收益。

原创性/价值

在印度，已经对 NIRF 数据进行了大量研究，以更深入地评估图书馆在大学、管理学院、工程和技术学院等机构整体排名中的作用和重要性，但还没有重大研究如此远覆盖印度领先的医疗机构。这项研究是在印度进行的原创研究，也是同类研究中的第一项。