Friday, November 28, 2014

UGC NET December 2014: Previous question papers, paper pattern

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/ugc-net-december-2014-previous-question-papers-paper-pattern/1/404153.html


The National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on behalf of UGC is all set to be held on December 28, 2014.
NET is conducted to test the eligibility of candidates applying for lectureship and for award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). The test acts as a means to ensure minimum standards for the entrants in the teaching profession and research. It is held for Humanities (including languages), Social Sciences, Forensic Science, Environmental Sciences, Computer Science and Applications and Electronic Science.
With approximately 1 month left for the exam, it is time for CBSE NET December 2014 aspirants should get cracking with their preparation for the exam. Here we provide the aspirants the paper pattern for the exam along with the previous year question papers to aid their exam preparation.
Paper pattern:
The examination is made up of three papers. All the three question papers consist of only objective type questions.
 First session:
Paper I (100 marks): The exam will consist of 60 out of which 50 question have to be attempted. The exam will be held for one hour 15 minutes (09.30 am to 10.45 am)
The exam shall be of general nature, intended to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. The question paper is designed to test the reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate.
Each question will carry a weightage of two marks each, out of which the candidate would be required to answer any 50. In case the candidate attempts more than 50 questions, the first 50 questions attempted by the candidate will be evaluated.
Paper II (100 marks): The exam will consist of 50 questions of which all are compulsory. The exam will be held for one hour 15 minutes (10.45 am to 12.00 noon)
The question paper will consist of 50 objective type compulsory questions based on the subject selected by the candidate. Each question will carry 2 marks.
Second session:
Paper III (150 marks): The exam will consist of 75 questions of which all are compulsory. The exam will be held for two hour 30 minutes (01.30 pm to 4.00 pm).
The question paper will consist of 75 objective type compulsory questions based on the subject selected by the candidate. Each question will carry 2 marks.
Previous year question papers:
To access the previous year UGC NET question papers candidates have to visit the following link: www.ugcnetonline.in/previous_question_papers.php

Friday, November 7, 2014

Questions

1.  “ Where  is wisdom  we have lost in –-          Knowledge
2.       The 1st element of communication process is –-          Source
3.       In communication flow , information is transferred from –-          Generator to receiver
4.       Airstotle ‘s idea of communication process is –-          Rhetoric
5.       Cognitive paradigm of information science was developed by –Belkin
6.       The noise of communication process can be demonized by –-          Feedback
7.       Harold Lasswell’s communication model is consists of –-          5
8.       Communication media is divided by –Print and Electronic media
9.       The term communication came from –-          Latin
10.   The communication from generation to generation is called?-          Oral communication
11.   What are the mass media?-          Film, radio  and television
12.   1st satellite communication was started--          USA
13.   The name of 1st satellite is?-          TELESTAR (1962)
14.   Translation of thoughts into words or signs which constitute information is known as--          Encoder
15.   The process of translation of the message by the receiver is known as –-          Decoder

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The author of


  1. The author of , ‘Documentation : its scope and limitations’ –-          J.H. Shera
  1. The author of ‘Documentation and information’--          B. Guha
  1. The author of, ‘Documentation’ –-          Bradford
  1. The author of, ‘World communication : threat or promise’ –-          Colline Chery
  1. The author of, ‘National library’--          B.S. Kesavan
  1. The author of, ‘Grandhayala Jyoti’ –          I. Venkata Ramanayya
  1. The author of, ‘Manual of library economy’--          J.D. Brown
  1. The author of, ‘Planning academic and research library buildings’--          K.D. Metcalf
  1. The author of, ’Basic statistics for librarians’--          I.S. Simpson
  1. The author of, ‘The end of libraries’--          J. Thompson
  1. The author of, ‘Communication’ –-          E. D. Johnson
  1. The author of, ‘ Introduction of librarianship’--          J.K. Gates
  1. The author of, ‘Information science: principles and practice’--          S. K. Bose
  1. The author of, ‘ Physical bibliography for librarians’ –-          S.R. Ranganathan
  1. The author of, ‘ Development of libraries in India’ –-          S. K. Mookerjee
  1. The author of, ‘Library and society’ –-          J.K. Khanna
  1. The author of, Changing context of Information’ –-          K.J. McGarry
  1. The author of, ‘Information in society : in information science : theory and practice’ –-          B. C. Vickery and A. Vickery
  2. The author of, The wealth of Information’-          Tom Stonier
  1. The author of, ‘ Coming of post –industrial society’ –-          Daniel Bell

Monday, November 3, 2014

Gujarat State Eligibility Test (GSET) October 2014 Answer key Declared :

http://www.gujaratset.ac.in/online/key.html



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 PAPER-I BOOKLET TYPE -B
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Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE || Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE
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1 A || 31 D
2 C || 32 A
3 A || 33 D
4 D || 34 C
5 A || 35 B
6 B || 36 B
7 D || 37 D
8 C || 38 B
9 A || 39 C
10 D || 40 C
11 C || 41 C
12 A || 42 B
13 B || 43 C
14 C || 44 D
15 A || 45 B
16 A || 46 A
17 C || 47 B
18 D || 48 A
19 A || 49 D
20 D || 50 D
21 C || 51 C
22 A || 52 B
23 C || 53 C
24 B || 54 B
25 B || 55 A
26 D || 56 C
27 D || 57 A
28 A || 58 A
29 C || 59 B
30 A || 60 D
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 PAPER-II SUBJECT: LIB.INFO.
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DATE OF EXAMINATION: 19TH OCTOBER 2014
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Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE || Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE
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1 B || 26 B
2 B || 27 B
3 D || 28 D
4 A || 29 A
5 D || 30 D
6 A || 31 C
7 D || 32 D
8 B || 33 B
9 A || 34 D
10 A || 35 C
11 C || 36 B
12 C || 37 C
13 C || 38 B
14 D || 39 C
15 C || 40 C
16 B || 41 C
17 A || 42 D
18 A || 43 C
19 C || 44 D
20 A || 45 B
21 A || 46 D
22 D || 47 B
23 C || 48 A
24 C || 49 B
25 B || 50 B
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 PAPER-III SUBJECT: LIB.INFO. 
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 DATE OF EXAMINATION: 19TH OCTOBER 2014
 -----------------------------------------------------
 Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE || Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE
 -----------------------------------------------------
 1 A || 39 A
2 D || 40 B
3 A || 41 B
 4 A || 42 B
 5 D || 43 C
6 D || 44 A
7 D || 45 A
8 A || 46 B
 9 B || 47 C
 10 A || 48 B
 11 C || 49 B
 12 B || 50 D
 13 B || 51 C
 14 B || 52 C
 15 C || 53 A
 16 D || 54 B
 17 B || 55 A
 18 C || 56 B
 19 A || 57 B
 20 D || 58 C
 21 D || 59 A
 22 A || 60 C
 23 B || 61 B
 24 A || 62 C
 25 D || 63 D
 26 D || 64 C
 27 D || 65 C
 28 A || 66 B
 29 C || 67 A
 30 B || 68 B
 31 B || 69 C
 32 A || 
 33 B || 70 A
 34 D || 71 B
 35 C || 72 D
 36 D || 73 B
 37 C || 74 A
 38 A || 75 C
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Educational Databases

List of academic databases

Name
Discipline(s)
Description
Access Cost
Provider(s)
Multidisciplinary
Several versions: Complete, Elite, Premier, and Alumni Edition[1]
Subscription
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Scholarly journals published in Africa[4]
Free abstracts; Subscription full-text
Includes information on aging-related topics, including economics, public healthand policy.
Subscription
Free & Subscription
Produced by the United States National Agricultural Library. Free access provided byNAL.[7] Subscription access provided byProQuest,[8] OVID.[9]
Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension literature from over 100 participating countries.
Material includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.
Free
Multidisciplinary
China, Taiwan.
Subscription
Subscription
Free
National Science Digital Library and the Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society[12]
Index only (no abstracts or full-text).
Free
Free to Harvard faculty, staff and students. Subscription for non-Harvard access.
Maintained by Harvard University. Non-Harvard access provided by OCLC[14]
German language
Free
Online service used to index and search academic social networks
Free
Part of Web of Science
Subscription
Free
Subscription
Free
Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues
Subscription
Free
Multidisciplinary
Free
Subscription
Available from Elsevier under the product name Reaxys[24]
A complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
Subscription
Available from Thomson Reuters[25]
A full-text aggregation of more than 180 scientific journals publishing current research in Biodiversity Conservation, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Entomology, Ornithology, Plant Science, and Zoology.
Free abstract & references, Open Access titles, and Subscription
Available from BioOne[26]
A meta search engine for 50 major bioinformatic databases and projects.
Free
Available from Liebel-Lab [1] KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [2]
Subscription
Subscription
Bibliographic information service providing access to applied life sciences literature.
Subscription
Subscription
Free
Subscription
Includes reviews of research to promote evidence-based healthcare.
Subscription
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Database of 15 million articles in the Japanese language from 3600 journals.
Free abstracts; Subscription full-text
Free
Semi-autonomous citation index of free online research
Free
Free
Replaced by CiteSeerX.
Free
Computer science,Statistics,Mathematics, becoming Multidisciplinary
Free
Science(General)
Free
Free
Electronic version of Engineering Index.
Subscription
Limited free search[43]
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Part of Web of Knowledge. Contains 7 discipline-specific subsets.
Subscription
Free
Comprehensive list of papers from major computer science conferences and journals
Free
EconBiz supports research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts.
Free
The American Economic Association's electronic database, the world's foremost source of references to economic literature.
Subscription
Produced by the American Economic Association.[48] Available from CSA, DIALOG,OCLC, OVID, and AEA.[49]
Biomedical database with a strong focus on drug and pharmaceutical research.
Subscription
Education literature and resources. Provides access to over 1.3 million records dating back to 1966.
Free
Produced by the United States Department of Education.[51] Also available by subscription from OCLC, CSA.
The world's leading database of information on food science, food technology and nutrition
Subscription
Descriptions of women's history collections from sources in the UK, as well as women's history websites.
Free
Public Health
Specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing datatabase dedicated to public health research and practice.
Subscription
The Golm Metabolome Database (GMD) is a reference mass spectra library of biologically active metabolites quantified using gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS).
Free online search; offline use by subscription
Multidisciplinary
Free
GoPubMed, the first knowledge-based search engine for the life sciences industry.
Free
An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database
Free
Subscription
Multidisciplinary science
Scientific journal database – the IC Journal Master List – contains currently over 2,500 journals from all over the world, including 700 journals from Poland. The journals registered in this database underwent rigorous, multidimensional parameterization, proving high quality. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education acknowledged the IC Journal Master List by placing it on the list of scored databases, for being indexed in IC JML journals get additional points in the Ministry’s evaluation process.[60]
Free
Index Copernicus International[61]
Multidisciplinary
The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 266,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format.
Free
Multidisciplinary
Australasian aggregator of bibliographic databases and journals
N/A
Multidisciplinary
Free searching; Subscription full-text
Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown abstracts and citation database, with multidisciplinary objective knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine to fulfill search and evaluation purposes for researchers, policy makers, decision makers etc.
Subscription
The leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production, and mechanical engineering.
Subscription
Contains information on university philosophy departments and programs, philosophical societies, research centers, journals, and philosophy publishers in the U.S., Canada, and approximately 130 other countries.
Free search; full access by subscription
Multidisciplinary
Serves students, teachers, and researchers in UK further education and higher education, offering a selection of around 300,000 academic websites which have been hand-picked and described by subject specialists. No longer maintained.
Free
Multidisciplinary
Open access journals in different language
Links to journal's home page and publishers
Multidisciplinary (Historical)
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Open access journals in different language
Links to journal's home page and publishers
Education (K-12)
Over 400,000 teacher-reviewed classroom resources including lesson plans, worksheets, educational videos, and education articles.
Free Abstract; Subscription full-text
Law (general)
Electronic database for legal and public-records related information
Subscription
Available in print as Mathematical Reviews
Subscription
Free
Multidisciplinary
The Mendeley research catalog is a crowdsourced database of research documents. Researchers have uploaded nearly 100M documents into the catalog with additional contributions coming directly from subject repositories like Pubmed Central and Arxiv.org or web crawls.
Free
Also available in print.
Subscription
Subscription
Produced by the American Meteorological Society. Available from Dialog[77] and CSA.[78]
Computer Science and a limited extent on information science
Provides many innovative ways to explore scientific papers, conferences, journals, and authors[79]
Free
Free
Criminology, Sociology
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, agency and NGO reports, and conference proceedings
Free
Multidisciplinary
Japanese. Catalog for the National Library of Japan.
N/A
Multidisciplinary
Free
Indexes European grey literature.
Free
Journals, series, conference proceedings, and other works from several countries online.
Free abstract & preview; Subscription full-text
Index of books, journals, disserations, and other documents
Subscription
Free
Journals and series, online access for institutions with print
Free abstract & preview; Subscription full-text
POPLINE® contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature. An international resource, POPLINE helps program managers, policy makers, and service providers in low- and middle-income countries and in development-supportive agencies and organizations gain access to journal articles and other scientific, technical, and programmatic publications.
Free
The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.6 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 19th century.
Subscription
Produced by the APA.[89] Available from several database vendors.[90]
An online, multimedia digital archive containing the profiles of 250 feminist psychologists who have shaped and continue to transform the discipline of psychology. Profiles are organized in two sections, "Women Past" and "Feminist Presence." All profiles on the Feminist Presence section contain original interview transcripts and video clips with the psychologist discussing their feminist development and academic career.
Free
Based at York University, Toronto, Canada.[91]
Free
Multidisciplinary
Subscription
Free
PubPsych is a free information retrieval system for psychological resources. It offers a comprehensive and balanced selection of resources from a growing number of international databases with a European focus, covering the needs of academic and professional psychologists.
Free
Multidisciplinary (Historical)
Subscription
Coverage: 1983–present.
Subscription
Subscription
Free
Volunteer Collaboration[97]
Biomedical
Biomedical resources with special focus for medical professionals.
searches among physician level standard documents eliminating patient level materials.
Free
Primary documents from the history of rock and roll
Subscription. Limited free access with registration.
Backpages Limited[99]
A bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian.
Free
Multidisciplinary
Citations and abstracts of journal articles and reports from researchers working in the more than 35 distinct professional disciplines (architecture - zoology) relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm.
Free
Multidisciplinary
SciDiver is an academic paper search engine for the physical sciences.
The service currently maintains an index over arXiv, the preprint service for mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative finance and related disciplines; expansion to additional repositories is expected in the course of the site's continued development.
Free
Journals
SciELO is a bibliographic database and a model for cooperative electronic publishing in developing countries originally from Brazil. It contains 985 scientific journals from different countries in free and universal access, full-text format.
Free
FAPESP, CNPq and BIREME
Multidisciplinary
A gateway to government science information and research results. Science.gov provides a search of over 45 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2000 scientific Websites.
Free
Science.gov Alliance, 18 scientific and technical organizations from 14 federal agencies that contribute to Science.gov. United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information serves as the operating agent for Science.gov.[104]
Multidisciplinary
A gateway to results of DOE research and development and major R&D accomplishments of interest to DOE.
Free
Science(General)
Part of Web of Science
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. It contains over 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. While it is a subscription product, authors can review and update their profiles via ORCID.org or by first searching for their profile at the free Scopus author lookup page.
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Students search together collaboratively for scholarly articles and resources
Free
Part of Web of Science
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Scholarly open access resources in different language
Free abstracts; Links to full-text
Contains an abstracts database and an electronic paper collection, arranged by discipline.
Free
Indexes datasets and statistical codes
Free
Free
Multidisciplinary
Free abstract & preview; Subscription full-text
Subscription
European vocational education and training (VET) literature
Free
Multidisciplinary
Includes other products, such as Web of Science, Biological Abstracts & The Zoological Record
Subscription
Science(General)
Includes other products, such as Social Science Citation Index & Science Citation Index.
Subscription
Law (General)
Subscription
Multidisciplinary
Unified catalog of member libraries' catalogs
Free & Subscription
Multidisciplinary
WorldWideScience is a global science gateway composed of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world. Multilingual WorldWideScience provides real-time searching and translation of globally dispersed multilingual scientific literature.
Free
The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience. United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information serves as the operating agent for WorldWideScience.[121]
Japanese.
N/A
First three records free without subscription.
Subscription
Unofficial register of scientific names & papers in Zoology. Coverage 1864–present.
Subscription