Maharashtra SET (MH-SET) 2020 Solved Library & Information Science Questions with Explanations (21-30)

Maharashtra SET (MH-SET) 2020 Solved Library & Information Science Questions with Explanations (21-30)

21. INFOMINE is a __.

(A) Virtual Library of Internet Resources
(B) Search Engines
(C) Database
(D) Online Library Catalogue

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Answer: (A) Virtual Library of Internet Resources
Notes: Infomine is a World Wide Web virtual library which provides indexing, annotations and links to internet resources of scholarly use to the academic community. INFOMINE was developed by the Library of University of California, in January 1994.

22. 'Embase' database provides information of __.

(A) Biomedical Science
(B) Education Science
(C) Social Science
(D) English Literature

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Answer: (A) Biomedical Science
Notes: Embase, produced by Elsevier, is a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database of published literature from 1947 to the present.

23. 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

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Answer: (C) USA
Notes: JSTOR is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City, United States.

24. DOAJ is __.

(A) Open access database
(B) Commercial database
(C) Citation database
(D) Numerical database

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Answer: (A) Open access database
Notes: Developed by Lars Bjørnshauge and first launched in 2003, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals.

25.Which one of the following are correct?

(a) Tertiary sources - New Knowledge is first reported
(b) Primary sources - Don't contain new information
(c) Reference sources - Don't warrant continuous reading
(d) Secondary sources - Assist in locating primary sources

(A) (a) and (c) are correct
(B) (a) and (b) are correct
(C) (c) and (d) are correct
(D) (b) and (c) are correct

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Answer: (C)

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

(a) Encyclopaedia Britannica
(b) Encyclopaedia Americana
(c) McGraw-Hill Encylopaedia of Science and Technology
(d) Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science

(A) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
(B) (c), (a), (d) and (b)
(C) (c), (d), (b) and (a)
(D) (d), (a), (b) and (c)

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Answer: (A)
Notes: Encyclopedia Britannica (1768); Encyclopedia Americana (1829); McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1960); Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (1968-2003).

27. 'National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India' is compiled and maintained by __.

(A) BLDSC
(B) NLM
(C) NISCAIR
(D) INIS

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Answer: (C) NISCAIR

28. Statement (A): The term ‘Informatik’ is coined by Karl Steinbuch in 1957. Statement (B): The ‘logical theory of information’ is developed by Charles Sanders Peirce.

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

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Answer: (C)

29. Assertion (A): User studies are useful in bridging the gap between the kind of information services needed and the kind of services in existence. Reason (R): User studies are not needed for the creation of information systems, services and product.

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

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Answer: (A)

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

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

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Answer: (B)