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CAREERS 360   –  MAY 2012  issue covers  India’s Best Engineering Colleges 2012. Our Institute has been awarded  "A" grading  in the survey conducted by the magazine. For more details, click the link below: http://www.careers360.com/ news/8473-best-engineering- colleges-Maharashtra-Goa or have a look at the following list sourced from the magazine website. MAHARASHTRA & GOA Institute LOCATION State National IITs/NITs/IIITs IIT-Bombay Mumbai AAA+ Top VNIT Nagpur AAA+ AAA International Ins titute of Information Technology Pune AAA AA National Institute of Technology, Goa Goa AA+ AA Other Deemed Universities/Central Universities Mumbai Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT) Mumbai AAA AAA NMIMS College of Engineering (MPST&M) Mumbai AA AA Symbiosis International University Pune AA AA Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Pune A+ N.R. S...

It has been a slow but steady move to make scholarship freely available Most of us spend a few hundred rupees a year on the magazines we buy for leisure reading or for keeping abreast of current affairs. But if you are a scientist, you may be shelling out a few thousand rupees for the journal your professional society publishes for its members. Of course, if you are a serious researcher, you may have to read or refer to many journals, not two or three. And you will depend on your institution’s library for those journals. Till 20-30 years ago, most academic libraries, at least in the West, did not find it difficult to subscribe to most journals needed by the scientists in their institutions. Then things started changing and journal subscription prices started skyrocketing — some costing $20,000-40,000 — leading to what librarians call the serials crisis. Much of the price rise was caused by commercial publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. These three control most of t...