Match the following :List IList II(a) Books in print(i) Proquest(b) The Statesman's yearbook(ii) Microsoft(c) Ulrich's international periodicals directory(iii) Palgrave MacMillan(d) Encarta Encyclopedia(iv) R. R. BowkarCodes :

The correct matching is (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii).Books in Print is published by R.R. Bowker.The Statesman's Yearbook is published by Palgrave Macmillan.Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory is now a ProQuest product (Ulrichsweb).Encarta Encyclopedia was produced by Microsoft.The other codes misassign at least two publishers, for example giving Books in Print to Microsoft.

Information Sources Questions and Answers

Q: Assertion (A) : Primary sources provide authentic information for research.Reason (R) : Information in primary sources is highly unorganised.Codes :

Both (A) and (R) are correct.Primary sources, such as research articles, patents, theses and reports, present first-hand, original information and are the authentic basis of research, so the assertion is correct.The reason is also accepted: primary literature is vast and scattered across thousands of journals, reports and other forms, with no overall organisation. That is why secondary sources, indexes, abstracts and bibliographies, are needed to organise and give access to it.

Q: Arrange the following in the chronological order of their first year of publication :(i) Indian National Bibliography(ii) Cumulative Book Index(iii) Books in Print(iv) British National BibliographyCodes :

The order is (ii) (iii) (iv) (i): Cumulative Book Index, Books in Print, British National Bibliography, Indian National Bibliography.Cumulative Book Index: 1898 (H.W. Wilson).Books in Print: 1948 (R.R. Bowker).British National Bibliography: 1950.Indian National Bibliography: 1958 (first issue, covering 1957).Any sequence beginning with the INB or BNB is wrong, since both are post-war publications and the CBI is the oldest.

Q: 'AERADE' is a ............

AERADE is a gateway for Aerospace and Defence.AERADE was a subject gateway built by Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. It offered a quality-controlled, catalogued list of links to internet resources in aerospace and defence, with descriptions, rather than holding the documents itself.A database stores records of its own, an indexing service indexes the articles of journals, and a library holds a collection. AERADE did none of these; it pointed users to evaluated resources elsewhere, which is what a gateway does.

Q: Which of the following is an example of primary document ?

The primary document is Nature.A primary document reports original research or new information for the first time. Nature is a research journal that publishes original papers, so it is a primary source.The other three are secondary sources that organise and point to primary literature. Current Contents reproduces the contents pages of journals, the Science Citation Index indexes articles and their citations, and Chemical Abstracts summarises papers in chemistry.

Q: The Manupatra database provides information related with ........... subject.

Manupatra provides information on law.Manupatra is an Indian online legal database. It carries judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts, central and state legislation, rules, notifications and commentaries, and is widely used by law libraries, lawyers and law schools.It is not a database for management, chemistry or history. Databases for those subjects include, for example, management collections such as EBSCO's Business Source, and SciFinder for chemistry.

Q: Which of the following is not the criteria used for evaluation of reference books ?

The criterion not used is the colour of the cover.Reference books are judged on what affects the reliability and usefulness of their content: the authority of the editor or publisher, the scope of the work, how current the information is, its accuracy, its arrangement and its indexes.The colour of the cover says nothing about the quality of the information inside, so it is not an evaluation criterion. Authority, currency and scope all are.

Q: Which one of the following is correctly matched ?(i) Who's Who of Indian Writers-Sahitya Academy(ii) India : A Reference Annual-Ministry of Information and Broadcasting(iii) India Who's Who-INFA(iv) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science-RRRLF

Pairs i, ii and iii are correct, so the answer is (i), (ii), (iii) are true.Who's Who of Indian Writers is published by the Sahitya Akademi. India: A Reference Annual is compiled by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. India Who's Who is published by INFA Publications.Pair iv is wrong: the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science was published by Marcel Dekker, edited by Allen Kent and others, not by the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. The options that call i or ii false, or iv true, are therefore wrong.

Q: Assertion (A) : Indexing periodicals provide brief summary of articles.Reason (R) : They provide only list of articles along with the title, authors and other bibliographic details of articles.

(A) is false but (R) is true.Indexing periodicals list articles with their bibliographic details, such as title, authors, journal, volume and pages, under subject headings. They do not summarise the content, so A is false.Summaries of articles are what abstracting periodicals provide. Statement R correctly describes what an indexing periodical gives, so it is true. That rules out both options that call A true and the option calling R false.

Q: Arrange the following in the chronological order of their first year of publication :(i) Arts and Humanities Index(ii) Social-Science Citation Index(iii) ISI Web of Science(iv) Science Citation Index

The order is (iv), (ii), (i), (iii).Science Citation Index: first published by Eugene Garfield's Institute for Scientific Information in 1964.Social Sciences Citation Index: 1973.Arts and Humanities Citation Index: 1978.ISI Web of Science, the online platform combining the three: 1997.The other options misplace Web of Science, which is the web version of the printed indexes and so came last, or the Science Citation Index, which came first.

41.

Match the following :

List I	List II
(a) Books in print	(i) Proquest
(b) The Statesman's yearbook	(ii) Microsoft
(c) Ulrich's international periodicals directory	(iii) Palgrave MacMillan
(d) Encarta Encyclopedia	(iv) R. R. Bowkar

Codes :

A.(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
B.(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
C.(a)-(i), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
D.(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

The correct matching is (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii).

Books in Print is published by R.R. Bowker.
The Statesman's Yearbook is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory is now a ProQuest product (Ulrichsweb).
Encarta Encyclopedia was produced by Microsoft.

The other codes misassign at least two publishers, for example giving Books in Print to Microsoft.

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42.

Assertion (A) : Primary sources provide authentic information for research.
Reason (R) : Information in primary sources is highly unorganised.

Codes :

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

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: C

Both (A) and (R) are correct.

Primary sources, such as research articles, patents, theses and reports, present first-hand, original information and are the authentic basis of research, so the assertion is correct.

The reason is also accepted: primary literature is vast and scattered across thousands of journals, reports and other forms, with no overall organisation. That is why secondary sources, indexes, abstracts and bibliographies, are needed to organise and give access to it.

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43.

Arrange the following in the chronological order of their first year of publication :

(i) Indian National Bibliography
(ii) Cumulative Book Index
(iii) Books in Print
(iv) British National Bibliography

Codes :

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

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: B

The order is (ii) (iii) (iv) (i): Cumulative Book Index, Books in Print, British National Bibliography, Indian National Bibliography.

Cumulative Book Index: 1898 (H.W. Wilson).
Books in Print: 1948 (R.R. Bowker).
British National Bibliography: 1950.
Indian National Bibliography: 1958 (first issue, covering 1957).

Any sequence beginning with the INB or BNB is wrong, since both are post-war publications and the CBI is the oldest.

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44.

'AERADE' is a ............

A.Gateway for Aerospace and Defence
B.Database for Aerospace and Defence
C.Indexing services for Aerospace and Defence
D.Library of Aerospace and Defence

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: A

AERADE is a gateway for Aerospace and Defence.

AERADE was a subject gateway built by Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. It offered a quality-controlled, catalogued list of links to internet resources in aerospace and defence, with descriptions, rather than holding the documents itself.

A database stores records of its own, an indexing service indexes the articles of journals, and a library holds a collection. AERADE did none of these; it pointed users to evaluated resources elsewhere, which is what a gateway does.

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45.

Which of the following is an example of primary document ?

A.Current contents
B.Science Citation Index
C.Chemical Abstracts
D.Nature

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: D

The primary document is Nature.

A primary document reports original research or new information for the first time. Nature is a research journal that publishes original papers, so it is a primary source.

The other three are secondary sources that organise and point to primary literature. Current Contents reproduces the contents pages of journals, the Science Citation Index indexes articles and their citations, and Chemical Abstracts summarises papers in chemistry.

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46.

The Manupatra database provides information related with ........... subject.

A.Management
B.Chemistry
C.Law
D.History

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: C

Manupatra provides information on law.

Manupatra is an Indian online legal database. It carries judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts, central and state legislation, rules, notifications and commentaries, and is widely used by law libraries, lawyers and law schools.

It is not a database for management, chemistry or history. Databases for those subjects include, for example, management collections such as EBSCO's Business Source, and SciFinder for chemistry.

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47.

Which of the following is not the criteria used for evaluation of reference books ?

A.Authority of the editor
B.Colour of cover
C.Currency of information
D.Scope

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: B

The criterion not used is the colour of the cover.

Reference books are judged on what affects the reliability and usefulness of their content: the authority of the editor or publisher, the scope of the work, how current the information is, its accuracy, its arrangement and its indexes.

The colour of the cover says nothing about the quality of the information inside, so it is not an evaluation criterion. Authority, currency and scope all are.

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48.

Which one of the following is correctly matched ?

(i) Who's Who of Indian Writers-Sahitya Academy
(ii) India : A Reference Annual-Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
(iii) India Who's Who-INFA
(iv) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science-RRRLF

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

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: A

Pairs i, ii and iii are correct, so the answer is (i), (ii), (iii) are true.

Who's Who of Indian Writers is published by the Sahitya Akademi. India: A Reference Annual is compiled by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. India Who's Who is published by INFA Publications.

Pair iv is wrong: the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science was published by Marcel Dekker, edited by Allen Kent and others, not by the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. The options that call i or ii false, or iv true, are therefore wrong.

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49.

Assertion (A) : Indexing periodicals provide brief summary of articles.
Reason (R) : They provide only list of articles along with the title, authors and other bibliographic details of articles.

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

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: D

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

Indexing periodicals list articles with their bibliographic details, such as title, authors, journal, volume and pages, under subject headings. They do not summarise the content, so A is false.

Summaries of articles are what abstracting periodicals provide. Statement R correctly describes what an indexing periodical gives, so it is true. That rules out both options that call A true and the option calling R false.

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50.

Arrange the following in the chronological order of their first year of publication :

(i) Arts and Humanities Index
(ii) Social-Science Citation Index
(iii) ISI Web of Science
(iv) Science Citation Index

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

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: A

The order is (iv), (ii), (i), (iii).

Science Citation Index: first published by Eugene Garfield's Institute for Scientific Information in 1964.
Social Sciences Citation Index: 1973.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index: 1978.
ISI Web of Science, the online platform combining the three: 1997.

The other options misplace Web of Science, which is the web version of the printed indexes and so came last, or the Science Citation Index, which came first.

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