fyi -------------------- Dear Member, Here is an appeal to all of you, who are interested in contributing for CSI Communications magazine Knowledge Digest for IT Community. For your information, the cover themes for forthcoming issues of CSI Communications are going to be as follows: November 2012 – Embedded Systems December 2012 – Intelligent Systems January 2013 – Enterprise 2.0 February 2013 – Programming Language Paradigms March 2013 - e-Libraries The Editorial Board of CSI Communications is looking for high quality technical articles for different columns pertaining to the above themes or emerging and current interests. The articles should cover all aspects of computing, information and communication technologies that should be of interest to readers at large and member fraternity of CSI and around. The articles shall be peer reviewed by experts decided by the Editorial Board and the selected ones shall be published. Both theoretical and practice based articles are welcome but not research papers. The articles and contributions may be submitted in the following categories: Cover Story, Research Front, Technical Trends, and Article. CIOs/Senior IT/IS personnel/consultants of the companies, who are managing technologies/projects related to the cover themes are welcome to contribute under the CIO Perspective - Managing Technology section. Similarly, HR Senior Managers/ Personnel/ Consultants are invited to contribute under HR section. Letters to the Editors for ReaderSpeak(), questions to be answered in Ask an Expert, your experience of Programming Tips under the Practitioner Workbench: Programming.Tips(), your memories of yesteryears of computing for IT.Yesterday(), theme based crossword puzzle and theme based cartoon for Brain Teaser column are also welcome. Here are article submission guidelines for your information: The articles may be long (2500-3000 words) or short (1000-1500 words) authored in as the original text. (Plagiarism is strictly prohibited – see the note at the end to know about meaning of plagiarism.) The articles may be sent to the CSI Editorial Board via email csic@csi-india.org by 15th of a month for consideration in the subsequent month’s issue. All manuscripts should be written at the level of the general audience of varied level of members. Equations and mathematical expressions within articles are not recommended, however, if absolutely necessary, should be minimum. List of references is preferred and it is recommended that list not more than 10 references at the end of your manuscript. Please don’t include any embedded reference numbers within the text of your article. If you would to like to refer, you may state names in the text and provide full reference at the end. The reference must state the names of the authors, title, publisher’s name, complete publication reference with month and year. Web URLs should be there for website references with accessed date. Figures and Images used should be limited to maximum of three (only high resolution images need to be sent, and the image needs to be sent separately also). Only MS-Word and PDF submissions are allowed. Include a brief biography of four to six lines for each author with author picture (high resolution). Please note that Editors will edit the contents as felt necessary. Editorial board will notify the authors of selected articles and authors will be asked to fill up the copyright transfer form before accepting the article. Please note that months for various cover themes are tentative and may change depending on prevailing circumstances. Sincere regards, Mrs. Jayshree A Dhere Resident Editor, On behalf of Editorial Board of CSIC, Knowledge Digest for IT Community P.S.: Plagiarism Alert for Prospective Authors Plagiarism in the present context is - use in part or whole of other published articles with or without citing. Even with citation, pasting huge chunks of text authored by others is not admissible (the only exception being demarcated quotes when situation warrants). Plagiarism is against professional ethics and the editorial team has no option but to recommend black listing the authors committing plagiarism for lifetime. It is an extremely simple matter for a reviewer to verify plagiarism. In most cases, a deft Googling of part of the text will reveal the sources instantaneously. Plagiarism is easy to do and also easy to detect. Prospective authors are requested to take extreme care in avoiding intentional and non-intentional forms of plagiarism, thereby saving time for them as well as for reviewers. CSI Communications is committed to upholding ethical practices in publishing and hence would continue to take serious view of plagiarism. Issued on behalf of CSI-C Editorial Team. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.