Indian Standard Time was adopted today in 1947

 Seventy years ago, India first adopted Indian Standard Time (IST) #OnThisDay in 1947. 

Time zones were officially established in India in 1884, during the British rule. Two time zones - Bombay Time and Calcutta Time, were used -  due to the importance of these cities as commercial and economic centres. 

Today India’s time zone is calculated according to the longitude of 82.5° E. at Shankargarh Fort in Mirzapur (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh) as the central meridian for India. With a time offset of UTC+5:30, India is five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. 

Read more about #IST and it uses from this journal in our archive: http://www.ndl.gov.in/document/aVZOeWNnOU8zckVBa2U0ZUQyVFI5Rzk3MTFwZVVQZ0NlcnJJenNreDNGVT0http://www.ndl.gov.in/document/aVZOeWNnOU8zckVBa2U0ZUQyVFI5Rzk3MTFwZVVQZ0NlcnJJenNreDNGVT0

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Resources for Research - Series 10 (VIDWAN - EXPERT DATABASE)

Expert Database and National Researcher Network

VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Subject Category

• 4633 Agricultural Sciences
• 4112 Arts & Humanities
• 2390 Biological Sciences
• 3309 Chemical Sciences
• 20073 Engineering & Technology
• 5717 Medical & Health Sciences
• 6469 Physical Sciences
• 11915 Social Sciences

Reference:

https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ (Accessed on August 20, 2020)

Resources for Research - Series 9 (SCIMAGO Journal Rankings)

 The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. Journals can be compared or analysed separately. Country rankings may also be compared or analysed separately. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. Citation data is drawn from over 34,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers and country performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide. The SJCR allows you also to embed significative journal metrics into your web as a clickable image widget

This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator (PDF), developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.

In the above screen shot, the database was queried for the Domain - Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence as the Subject in the Country - United States.

It generated 45 Journals

with 7 of them being only Open Access Journals as follows:

1. Journal of Machine Learning Research

2 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters


3 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research


4 Computational Linguistics


5 International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems


6 Statistics, Optimization and Information Computing


7 Journal of Computer Science

SCIMAJOR also gives Country Rankings; an example of which is as given below. India ranks third in the given example.

SCIMAGOJR COUNTRY RANKINGS - https://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php

Reference:

https://www.scimagojr.com/index.php (Accessed on August 20, 2020)