Information Sources Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The Dictionary of National Biography contains the biography of prominent people of Britain, option (D). It is a British national biographical work, begun in the nineteenth century, that covers eminent British men and women from the earliest times. It is not a work for all nations (A), for Europeans in general (B) or for Americans (C); the American counterpart is the Dictionary of American Biography. It was first published in the 1880s as a record of notable people who lived in the British Isles and its colonies, and it has been added to in supplements.

Answer: A

The citation indexes are now available online as the Web of Science, option (A). It is the online form of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Scopus (C) is a separate abstract and citation database, EBSCO (D) is a database vendor and JCCC (B) is not a citation index in this sense, so none of them is the online version of the citation indexes meant here. The older print indexes were merged into a single web platform, which is how the three citation indexes are now searched by libraries and researchers.

Answer: C

The free audio book site among the options is Librivox, option (C). Librivox offers public-domain books read aloud by volunteers, which can be downloaded at no cost. Ebrary (A) is a commercial e-book platform for libraries. Virtua (B) is a library automation system, and Google Books (D) is a book search and preview service that is not an audio book site. The choice is easy to make by elimination, since the other three names belong to e-book, library software and book preview services and not to audio books.

Answer: A

The online version of the McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology is AccessScience, option (A). It is the McGraw-Hill online resource that carries the encyclopaedia's articles along with dictionaries and other science content. The names in options (B), (C) and (D) are descriptive phrases and not the title of that product. The product is a subscription database of the publisher, which is why it is known by its own product name and not by a descriptive phrase.

Answer: C

The Indian National Bibliography is arranged in two parts, General Publications and Governmental Publications, option (C). The bibliography lists books published in India, and the government publications form a separate part of the list. Private (A), electronic (B) and non-book (D) are not the second part of its arrangement. The government publications part is kept separate because official documents form a distinct class of material and are listed apart from the general trade and private publications.

Answer: C

Indian patents on all areas are published in the Gazette of India, Part III.

The Patent Office publishes patent applications and grants in the Gazette of India, in Part III, Section 2, so it is the official channel covering all subject areas.

'India: A Reference Annual' is a general yearbook. The Indian Chemical Patent Index is limited to chemical patents, so it does not cover all areas, and the 'none of the above' option is wrong because the Gazette fits.

Answer: B

The key gives WIPO as the publisher of the 'World Directory of Sources of Patents'.

The World Intellectual Property Organization, in Geneva, is the UN body for patent information and issues directories and guides on sources of patent documents and patent information services.

Bowker-Saur and Derwent are commercial publishers, and the Patent Information System, India, is an Indian office; the key does not credit the directory to any of them.

Answer: D

'Web of Science' covers all of the above: sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.

Web of Science, from Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI), is built on three citation indexes: the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Since all three are included, each option alone is incomplete, and only the combined option is correct.

Answer: A

The web resource for library and information science compiled by academic librarians of the universities of California is Infomine.

Infomine is a virtual library of scholarly Internet resources, built by librarians of the University of California and other universities, and it has sections for subjects including library and information science.

The Internet Public Library was started by the University of Michigan school of information. The other two names do not match the description.

Answer: B

'Library Technology Reports' are published by the ALA, the American Library Association.

The series gives evaluations and surveys of library technology products and is issued by ALA TechSource.

The Indian Library Association, CILIP in the United Kingdom and the Special Libraries Association publish other journals and reports, not this series.