Srrishti 2k17 was an inter-college competition conducted by School

of Science on September 12th, 2017 in SSS Shasun Jain Col-

lege,T.Nagar. The events were Mobile App Development, Pot Pourri,

Treasure Hunt and Innovative Youth Talk. Nearly 80 students from

15 Colleges participated in the competition. The cash prize of

Rs.3000, Rs.2000 and Rs. 1000 was given to the winners. The stu-

dents participated with great enthusiasm.—Dr. M. Anita Indu

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Editor’s Desk 1

Loving Mem-

ory

1

College Events 1

Impact Factor 2

OER 3

Teachers Day

Celebrations

3

Book Review 4

Computer Science

Faculty S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 7 S P E C I A L

P O I N T S

O F I N T E R -

E S T :

Loving

Memory for

Prof. Hari

Depart-

ment Ac-

tivities and

Events

Impact

Fac-

tor:Article

Book Re-

view

Our oceans face a rising tide of threats to

their health, from climate change to pollution

to overfishing. These threats imperil the

ocean’s ability to sustain our lives — threats

that we alone have the power to stop. On

International Ocean Conservation day (16th

September) NCC Students of Alpha College

engaged themselves in cleaning at Besant

Nagar Beach –Prof. G. Ulaganathan

I am happy to

bring our 2nd

Issue, but I never thought I

would include an obituary

column, “When someone you

love becomes a memory, the

memory becomes a treas-

ure”, but i pray not to have

such column in future issues.

This month article “Impact

Factor” fuels to “Do research.

Feed your talent. Research

creates self-confidence with

new knowledge”. For rest of

the country Sep. 5 we cele-

brate as Teachers Day, but

for all of us every other day is

a Teachers day. Everyone

who remembers his own edu-

cation remembers teachers,

not methods and techniques.

The teacher is the heart of

the educational system,

happy Teachers Day to all.

V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2

Prof. Hari, currently worked in Thiruthangal Nadar Col-lege and early he was with

Jaya College, suddenly left us on 12th September, 2017 in

a road accident, he was re-membered for his calmness and his service attitude. On behalf of all we pray al-

mighty for his sole Rest in Peace and give strength to his

In Loving Memory

Prof. S. Harikrishnaprabhu M.Sc., M.Phil. UGC NET

Assistant Professor,

International Ocean Conservation Day

P A G E 2

“the journal

ranking is

often used as

a metric to

evaluate the

merit of a

researcher”

IIMPACTMPACT FFACTORSACTORS Why Paper Publications?

Publications in reputed journals is one

of the criteria often used by research

and scientific organizations to evaluate

the potential and excellence of a re-

searcher in recruitment, promotions,

research fellowships, expert assign-

ments, awards, etc. In combination

with the number of publications

and the number of first author-

ships, the journal ranking is of-

ten used as a metric to evaluate

the merit of a researcher.

What is Citations?

Journals employ several methods

to increase its IF. One straight

forward way to increase JIF is by

publishing more of review articles

which are generally cited more than

research reports.

A "citation" is the way you tell your

readers that certain material in your

work came from another source. It

also gives your readers the information

necessary to find that source again,

including:

information about the author

the title of the work

the name and location of the com-

pany that published your copy of the

source

the date your copy was published

the page numbers of the material

you are borrowing

Articles that address controversial

issues also get high citation, even

though they contribute little or noth-

ing to scientific progress. Hence, it is

highly controversial when the use of

JIF is extended to evaluate the merit of

papers therein and/or to assess an

individual researcher.

Where Impact Factors used?

Impact factor is commonly used to

evaluate the relative importance of a

journal within its field and to measure

the frequency with which the ―average

article‖ in a journal has been cited in a

particular time period. There are a

number of journal ranking systems

today, but the oldest and most influen-

tial is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

devised by Eugene Garfield, the foun-

der of the Institute for Scientific Infor-

mation which is now owned by Thom-

son Reuters

How it was calculated

IFs are calculated for those journals

that are indexed in the Journal Citation

Reports (JCR) of Thomson Reuters.

Most often, the 2-year IF is

used for journal ranking and it

is calculated annually. The IF of

a journal, in a given year, is the

average number of citations

received per paper published

in that journal during the pre-

ceding 2 years. For example, if

a journal has an IF of 3 in 2017,

then its papers published in

2016 and 2015 received three

citations each on an average in

2017. The 2017 IF of a journal

is calculated as follows:

JIF2017= A / B

where

A = the number of times

the articles published in that

journal in 2015 and 2016,

were cited by articles in

indexed journals during

2017.

B = the total number of

―citable items‖ published by

that journal in 2015 and

2016.

JIF2017 is calculated only after

all of the 2017 publications

have been processed by the

indexing agency. Hence, a new

journal will not get its IF until

it has been indexed for at least

3 years.

Since the 2-year citation win-

dow is often too short a pe-

riod for adequate citation, the

JCR also includes a 5-year IF.

The IF is highly discipline-

dependent and hence one

cannot compare journals

across disciplines on the basis

of their relative IFs.

Measuring instruments

There are various tools and

methods upon which to meas-

ure the impact of an individual

or their scholarship.

H-Index: The h-index is an

index to quantify an individual’s

scientific research output

There are several databases

(Web of Science, Scopus, and

Google Scholar) that will pro-

vide an h-index for an individ-

ual based on publications in-

dexed in the tools.

Citation Analysis: Is the

process whereby the impact or

"quality" of an article is as-

sessed by counting the number

of times other authors men-

tion it in their work.

UIC has access to a number

of resources that identify

cited works including: Web of

Science, Scopus, and Google

Scholar.

Altmetrics: is a quantitative

measure of the quality and

quantity of attention that a

scholarly work is receiving

through social media, cita-

tions, and article downloads.

Guidelines

Following are the guidelines

to help you in the writing

process:

make sure your proposed

article matches the journal’s

scope

read carefully the Guide-

lines for Authors provided

by the Journal

familiarize yourself with the

specific requirements as to

length, formatting, referenc-

ing, etc., and follow them

meticulously

Try to find a colleague who

has published in, or has

been a reviewer for, your

targeted journal. Their

experience may prove in-

valuable in assisting you

shape your article

Read plenty of articles from

the journal you intend to

publish in and learn from

other people’s style.

Conclusion

A major problem is that the

IF is owned by a private com-

pany, that has strong financial

interests in keeping the IF

working as it is. In most part

of western countries, they

realized, journal impact fac-

tors cannot be used even for

an approximate estimate of

real article impact, and would

be unbelievably misleading as

evaluation parameters‖. But

our system, still strongly rely

on these metrics... it really

doesn’t matter for those

believe in themselves, as

Henry Ford says ―Quality

means doing it right when

no one is looking.‖

“Quality

means doing

it right when

no one is

looking.”

C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2

Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu

Dr. V. Ajantha Devi, Guru Nanak College

Online Educational Resources P A G E 3

Lions Club of Anna Nagar, celebrated

Teachers Day on 9th September 2017 at

Hotel Jayapushpam. Dr. C.V.S uresh Babu

-Dr.C.V. Suresh Babu EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

http://ocw.tufts.edu -Tuft University

http://ocw.upm.es

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

http://ocw.usu.edu/

http://open.umich.edu/

http://ocw.nd.edu/

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

www.ehow.com

www.whatis.com

www.howstuffwork.com

www.webopedia.com

www.plagtracker.com

www.answers.com

SEARCH SITES

About.com (www.about.com)

AllTheWeb (www.alltheweb.com)

AltaVista (www.altavista.com)

Ask Jeeves! (www.askjeeves.com) Excite (www.excite.com)

HotBot (www.hotbot.com)

LookSmart (www.looksmart.com)

Lycos (www.lycos.com)

Open Directory (www.dmoz.org)

Google (www.google.com

There are number of online resources and tools avail-

able for faculties and students to empower themselves, I

had listed out some of the popular OER portals, we will

be exploring its potentials in our forthcoming future

issues.

EDUCATIONAL PORTAL

www.khanacademy.org

www.academicearths.org

www.coursera.com

www.edx.org

www.open2study.com

www.academicjournals.org

codeacademy.org

youtube.com/education

BOOK SITES

www.bookboon.com

http://ebookee.org

http://sharebookfree.com

http://m.freebooks.com

www.obooko.com

www.manybooks.net

www.epubbud.com

www.bookyards.com

www.getfreeebooks.com

http://freecomputerbooks.com www.essays.se

www.sparknotes.com

www.pink.monkey.com

“The best

teachers

don’t give

the

answers,

they spark

within you the desire

to find the

answer

yourself”

Dr K. Sankar, Dr. T. Rengaraja, Dr. R. Krishna-

murthy, Dr. K. Manivannan, Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu

@ Guru Nanak College

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Vidya Sagar college

SS Jain College,

Head-Content Develop-

ment, Anniyappa Publica-

tions was been honored

along with Dr. K. Manivan-

nan, Vice President, IFEES,

and Dr. M. Krishnamurthy,

HoD, CSE, KC Tech. Dr. T.

Rengaraja, Principal, RMK

Engineering college was the

Chief Guest. Early Dr. K. Sankar, Madras Computer

Academy and President of

the Lions Club of Anna Na-

gar presided the function.

Simplifying the Complexities

Book Bank @ Gugu Nanak

October Issue

Editor

Book Review

Lions Club of Chennai Elite Starts

(District 324 A1) has initiated a

permanent project to serve

―Economically weaker section‖

students by sponsoring them for

their Academic books for their

entire course with association

with Anniyappa Publications. For

further details please contact anniyappapublications@yahoo.com

Prof. V. Jayalakshmi,

C.S.I. Ewart Women's Christian College

This book has many descriptions

with suitable examples which stu-

dents can grasp easily. It is basically

makes the student as "Exam Ready".

As a faculty, i enjoy the "Test your-

self" section which makes my NET/

SET preparation easy, a must com-

panion for the faculties. Most es-

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Concurrency, Security, backup, re-

covery etc were explained in a sim-

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my classes. The content is sup-

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Assignments. At end of each chap-

ter a section called Further readings

which gives a complete list of refer-

ence books. Previous University

Question Papers are included with

pg. no. linked to answers.

an Computer Science

Quiz Competition for faculties

I. You can do it yourself” series: 1. Writing Journal Papers 2. Doing Project 3. Self Learning II FDP’s 1. Teacher—Do’s and Don’ts 2. Personalized Teaching 3. Teaching Beyond Syllabus 4. Project Based Teaching 5. Teaching with Technology 6. My Teacher—student’s perspective 7. Challenge the Challenge—A Road Map UGC NET 8. Once upon a time long long ago-Teaching through stories 9. From Guru to Teacher, Trainer, Coach, Mentor —

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1. Document Management System through Word processor

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November

Correction in Particulars

of Application Form on the

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October 2017

Date of UGC NET 2017

Examination:05th No-

vember, 2017 (Sunday)

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