LIRC@SFIT

The Learning and Information Resource Centre (LIRC), St. Francis Institute of Technology, successfully conducted an orientation programme on Elsevier ScienceDirect for students from multiple engineering departments under the able guidance of Ms. Preethi Colaco, Asst. Prof. Department of Basic Science and Humanities. A total of 184 students participated: Mechanical Engineering – 73 Electrical Engineering – 25 ECS – 36 ExTC – 50 The session introduced students to: Accessing international engineering journals Effective literature searching Advanced filtering techniques Downloading scholarly articles Supporting field projects and academic assignments The programme aimed to build strong research foundations and promote the effective use of digital library resources across engineering disciplines.

The academic journal Natural Product Research (tandfonline.com) covers natural product chemistry and biochemistry, though it was recently discontinued from Scopus in July 2026 . It holds an ISSN of 1478-6419 (Electronic ISSN: 1478-6427) and is published by Taylor & Francis. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Journal Overview Publisher: Taylor & Francis Subject Areas: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences Recent Metrics: Recorded a recent Scopus CiteScore of 4.6 prior to its source list update status change.  

Staying at the forefront of academic and industrial research requires keeping a close eye on upcoming publication opportunities. To help researchers, engineers, and academics plan their publishing schedules, we have curated a specialized selection of upcoming calls for papers with submission deadlines falling in August 2026 or later . Below is an organized directory of high-impact special issues spanning computer science, artificial intelligence, communications, power electronics, and advanced engineering systems. Extreme Super-Resolution: Pushing the Boundaries of Image and Video enhancement Guest editors: Chaker Larabi, Petra Gomez-Krämer, Abderrezzaq Sendjasni, Javier Vasquez Corral, Shaolin Su Signal Processing: Image Communication • Impact Factor 2.1 • CiteScore 7.3 Submission deadline: 31 December 2026 Speech Processing with Wearable and Multimodal Technologies Guest editors: Jon Barker; Christian Feugen; Leibny Paola Garcia Perera; Shota Horiguchi; Michael Mandel; Kamil Wojcic...