Information Sources Questions and Answers

Q: JSTOR is an online system for archiving and accessing academic journals, books and primary sources which is located in .................. .

JSTOR is located in the USA.JSTOR (Journal Storage) was founded in 1995 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitise back runs of scholarly journals. It is run by ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organisation based in New York, and also provides books and primary sources.Germany and the UK are home to other digital archives and publishers, but JSTOR is American. Budapest, the Hungarian capital, has no connection with JSTOR.

Q: DOAJ is ...................... .

DOAJ is an Open access database.The Directory of Open Access Journals, launched in 2003 at Lund University in Sweden, is a community-curated online directory that indexes and gives access to quality, peer-reviewed open access journals. Anyone can search it and read the indexed journals free of charge.It is not a commercial database sold by subscription, such as Scopus. It is not a citation database, which records who cites whom, as the Web of Science does. And it is not a numerical database of statistical data.

Q: Which one of the following are correct ?(i) Tertiary sources - New knowledge is first reported(ii) Primary sources - Don't contain new information(iii) Reference sources - Don't warrant continuous reading(iv) Secondary sources - Assist in locating primary sources

(iii) and (iv) are correct.Reference sources such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias and directories are consulted for specific facts and are not meant to be read through continuously (iii). Secondary sources such as indexes, abstracts and bibliographies organise and point to the primary literature, helping users locate it (iv).Statement (i) is wrong: new knowledge is first reported in primary sources such as journal articles, patents and reports, not in tertiary sources, which guide users to primary and secondary sources. Statement (ii) is wrong for the same reason: primary sources are exactly those that contain new information.

Q: Assertion (A) : LISA is a source of primary information.Reason (R) : All primary sources provide 'original' information.

(A) is false, but (R) is true.LISA, Library and Information Science Abstracts, is an abstracting service. It does not report new research; it summarises and indexes articles that were first published elsewhere, which makes it a secondary source. So Assertion A is false.Reason R is true: primary sources, such as research articles, theses, patents and conference papers, are by definition the ones that carry original information, reported for the first time.Options that call A true, or call R false, are therefore wrong.

Q: Arrange the following publications according to their year of first publications :(i) Encyclopaedia Britannica(ii) Encyclopaedia Americana(iii) Mc Graw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology(iv) Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science

The order of first publication is (i) (ii) (iii) (iv).Encyclopaedia Britannica: first published in Edinburgh, 1768-1771.Encyclopedia Americana: first published 1829-1833.McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: first edition 1960.Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Marcel Dekker): first volumes from 1968.The Britannica is by far the oldest and the library science encyclopaedia the newest, so only the first option has the right order: the second puts the Americana last, and the others start with the Americana or with the library science encyclopaedia.

Q: Intute is a .................... .(i) Free online service(ii) Best web resources for education(iii) Commercial online service(iv) Internet guideCodes :

Intute was (i) a free online service, (ii) a source of the best web resources for education and (iv) an internet guide.Intute was a UK service, funded by JISC and run by a consortium of universities, that offered a free database of web resources selected and described by subject specialists for education and research. It was the successor to the Resource Discovery Network and was closed in 2011.It was not a commercial service, so codes including (iii) are wrong, and option D wrongly calls the true features false.

Q: The frequency of "Guide to Indian Periodical Literature" is .............. .

The Guide to Indian Periodical Literature is Quarterly.The Guide to Indian Periodical Literature, published by Prabhu Book Service, Gurgaon, is an author and subject index to articles in Indian periodicals in the social sciences and humanities. It appears quarterly, with annual cumulations.Monthly, bi-monthly and half-yearly do not match its frequency.

Q: What is geographical reference source 'globe' ?

A globe is a circular presentation of surface of the earth.A globe is a spherical model of the earth on which the continents, oceans and other features are shown in their true shapes and relative positions. Because it has the same shape as the earth, it avoids the distortion that every flat map projection introduces.A photograph is an image, not a geographical reference model. A map is a flat representation of the earth's surface, and an atlas is a bound collection of maps, so neither is a globe.

Q: Theses are ........................ type of documents.

Theses are Primary documents.Primary documents report original research or new information for the first time: journal articles, research reports, patents, conference papers and theses. A doctoral thesis presents the candidate's own original research, so it is a primary source.Secondary documents, such as indexes, abstracts, reviews and textbooks, are compiled from primary ones, and tertiary documents, such as bibliographies of bibliographies and directories, help locate both. 'Meta' is not a category in this classification.

Q: .................. are the examples of deep web.(i) Invisible.com(ii) Lycos Invisible catalogue(iii) ipl2(iv) AltavistaCodes :

The deep web examples are (i), (ii) and (iii).The deep (invisible) web is content that ordinary search engines do not index, such as databases searched through forms. LIS texts list gateways built to reach such content as examples, among them Invisible.com, the Lycos Invisible Web Catalog, and ipl2, the Internet Public Library, which described scholarly resources that general engines missed.AltaVista was a general web search engine indexing the surface web, so codes including (iv) are wrong.

31.

JSTOR is an online system for archiving and accessing academic journals, books and primary sources which is located in .................. .

A.Germany
B.UK
C.USA
D.Budapest

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

JSTOR is located in the USA.

JSTOR (Journal Storage) was founded in 1995 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitise back runs of scholarly journals. It is run by ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organisation based in New York, and also provides books and primary sources.

Germany and the UK are home to other digital archives and publishers, but JSTOR is American. Budapest, the Hungarian capital, has no connection with JSTOR.

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32.

DOAJ is ...................... .

A.Open access database
B.Commercial database
C.Citation database
D.Numerical database

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

DOAJ is an Open access database.

The Directory of Open Access Journals, launched in 2003 at Lund University in Sweden, is a community-curated online directory that indexes and gives access to quality, peer-reviewed open access journals. Anyone can search it and read the indexed journals free of charge.

It is not a commercial database sold by subscription, such as Scopus. It is not a citation database, which records who cites whom, as the Web of Science does. And it is not a numerical database of statistical data.

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33.

Which one of the following are correct ?

(i) Tertiary sources - New knowledge is first reported
(ii) Primary sources - Don't contain new information
(iii) Reference sources - Don't warrant continuous reading
(iv) Secondary sources - Assist in locating primary sources

A.(i) and (ii) are correct
B.(ii) and (iv) are correct
C.(iii) and (iv) are correct
D.(i) and (iv) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

(iii) and (iv) are correct.

Reference sources such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias and directories are consulted for specific facts and are not meant to be read through continuously (iii). Secondary sources such as indexes, abstracts and bibliographies organise and point to the primary literature, helping users locate it (iv).

Statement (i) is wrong: new knowledge is first reported in primary sources such as journal articles, patents and reports, not in tertiary sources, which guide users to primary and secondary sources. Statement (ii) is wrong for the same reason: primary sources are exactly those that contain new information.

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34.

Assertion (A) : LISA is a source of primary information.
Reason (R) : All primary sources provide 'original' information.

A.(A) is false, but (R) is true
B.(A) is true, but (R) is false
C.Both (A) and (R) are false
D.Both (A) and (R) are true

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

(A) is false, but (R) is true.

LISA, Library and Information Science Abstracts, is an abstracting service. It does not report new research; it summarises and indexes articles that were first published elsewhere, which makes it a secondary source. So Assertion A is false.

Reason R is true: primary sources, such as research articles, theses, patents and conference papers, are by definition the ones that carry original information, reported for the first time.

Options that call A true, or call R false, are therefore wrong.

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35.

Arrange the following publications according to their year of first publications :

(i) Encyclopaedia Britannica
(ii) Encyclopaedia Americana
(iii) Mc Graw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology
(iv) Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science

A.(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
B.(i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
C.(ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
D.(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The order of first publication is (i) (ii) (iii) (iv).

Encyclopaedia Britannica: first published in Edinburgh, 1768-1771.
Encyclopedia Americana: first published 1829-1833.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: first edition 1960.
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Marcel Dekker): first volumes from 1968.

The Britannica is by far the oldest and the library science encyclopaedia the newest, so only the first option has the right order: the second puts the Americana last, and the others start with the Americana or with the library science encyclopaedia.

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36.

Intute is a .................... .

(i) Free online service
(ii) Best web resources for education
(iii) Commercial online service
(iv) Internet guide

Codes :

A.(i), (ii), (iii) are true
B.(ii), (iii), (iv) are true
C.(i), (ii), (iv) are true
D.(i), (ii), (iv) are false

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: C

Intute was (i) a free online service, (ii) a source of the best web resources for education and (iv) an internet guide.

Intute was a UK service, funded by JISC and run by a consortium of universities, that offered a free database of web resources selected and described by subject specialists for education and research. It was the successor to the Resource Discovery Network and was closed in 2011.

It was not a commercial service, so codes including (iii) are wrong, and option D wrongly calls the true features false.

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37.

The frequency of "Guide to Indian Periodical Literature" is .............. .

A.Monthly
B.Bi-monthly
C.Quarterly
D.Bi-annual

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: C

The Guide to Indian Periodical Literature is Quarterly.

The Guide to Indian Periodical Literature, published by Prabhu Book Service, Gurgaon, is an author and subject index to articles in Indian periodicals in the social sciences and humanities. It appears quarterly, with annual cumulations.

Monthly, bi-monthly and half-yearly do not match its frequency.

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38.

What is geographical reference source 'globe' ?

A.Circular presentation of surface of the earth
B.Photo of the earth
C.The map of earth on flat surface
D.Atlas of the earth

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

A globe is a circular presentation of surface of the earth.

A globe is a spherical model of the earth on which the continents, oceans and other features are shown in their true shapes and relative positions. Because it has the same shape as the earth, it avoids the distortion that every flat map projection introduces.

A photograph is an image, not a geographical reference model. A map is a flat representation of the earth's surface, and an atlas is a bound collection of maps, so neither is a globe.

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39.

Theses are ........................ type of documents.

A.Primary
B.Secondary
C.Tertiary
D.Meta

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

Theses are Primary documents.

Primary documents report original research or new information for the first time: journal articles, research reports, patents, conference papers and theses. A doctoral thesis presents the candidate's own original research, so it is a primary source.

Secondary documents, such as indexes, abstracts, reviews and textbooks, are compiled from primary ones, and tertiary documents, such as bibliographies of bibliographies and directories, help locate both. 'Meta' is not a category in this classification.

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40.

.................. are the examples of deep web.

(i) Invisible.com
(ii) Lycos Invisible catalogue
(iii) ipl2
(iv) Altavista

Codes :

A.(i) and (ii) are correct
B.(ii), (iii), (iv) are correct
C.(i), (iii), (iv) are correct
D.(i), (ii), (iii) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

The deep web examples are (i), (ii) and (iii).

The deep (invisible) web is content that ordinary search engines do not index, such as databases searched through forms. LIS texts list gateways built to reach such content as examples, among them Invisible.com, the Lycos Invisible Web Catalog, and ipl2, the Internet Public Library, which described scholarly resources that general engines missed.

AltaVista was a general web search engine indexing the surface web, so codes including (iv) are wrong.

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