UGC NET Law Unit - IV Syllabus

What is a Vodcast?

A video podcast — episodic video content distributed online for download or streaming; libraries use vodcasts for visual instruction, tours, and promotional content.

What is the 'Ask a Librarian' service?

A virtual reference service that lets users submit questions to librarians via web form, email, chat, or phone and receive professional research assistance.

What are Social Networks in the library context?

Online platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter/X) that libraries use to engage users, promote services and events, share resources, and build community around the library.

What are Academic Social Networks? Give examples.

Networking platforms for researchers and scholars to share papers and collaborate, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and Mendeley.

What is Social Tagging (folksonomy)?

The practice of users freely assigning keywords or 'tags' to resources, creating a user-generated classification (folksonomy) that aids discovery and organization.

What is Social Bookmarking?

A method by which users save, organize, tag, and share links to web resources on online platforms, enabling collaborative discovery of useful content.

What is NISCAIR and what was it formed from?

National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (New Delhi), formed in 2002 by merging INSDOC and NISCOM under CSIR; it publishes scientific journals and provides S&T information services.

What is DESIDOC?

Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre — the information resource centre of DRDO (Ministry of Defence), providing S&T information services in defence science.

What is SENDOC?

Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre, Hyderabad — a documentation and information centre serving small-scale industries, established under the ni-msme (National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).

What is ENVIS?

Environmental Information System — a network set up by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (India) in 1982 to collect, store, and disseminate environment-related information.

What is INFLIBNET?

Information and Library Network — an autonomous inter-university centre of the UGC (established 1991, Gandhinagar) that networks academic libraries and provides resources such as UGC-INFONET, Shodhganga, and N-LIST.

What is DELNET?

Developing Library Network (originally Delhi Library Network), established 1988 in New Delhi — India's largest library network providing resource sharing, union catalogues, and inter-library loan among member libraries.

What is NICNET?

The nationwide ICT network of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), providing e-governance infrastructure and informatics support to government departments across India.

What is ERNET?

Education and Research Network — India's national academic and research computer network, established in 1986, serving educational and research institutions.

What is the National Knowledge Network (NKN)?

A high-speed Indian network (launched 2010) that interconnects universities, research institutions, libraries, and laboratories to enable collaboration and resource sharing across the country.

What is the Biotechnology Information System Network (BTISnet)?

A distributed bioinformatics network established by the Department of Biotechnology (India) to provide biotechnology and bioinformatics information resources and services.

What does INIS stand for and who maintains it?

International Nuclear Information System — maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is one of the world's largest databases on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

What does AGRIS cover and who operates it?

AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global agricultural information database operated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

What is INSPEC?

A major bibliographic database for physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, and information technology, produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

What does MEDLARS stand for and who created it?

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System — a computerized biomedical information system created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM); MEDLINE is its best-known database.

What is BIOSIS?

A life-sciences information service known for Biological Abstracts and the BIOSIS Previews database, providing comprehensive coverage of biological and biomedical literature.

What does ERIC stand for and what does it cover?

Education Resources (Resource) Information Center — a U.S.-sponsored digital library and database of education research and information.

What is the Patent Information System (PIS)?

An Indian system (located at Nagpur, under DPIIT/CGPDTM) that provides patent-related information services and access to patent documents to inventors, researchers, and industry.

What is the Biotechnology Information System (BIS)?

A programme/network of India's Department of Biotechnology providing biotechnology and bioinformatics information resources, databases, and computational support to the research community.

Differentiate CAS and SDI by their target audience.

CAS targets a broad group of users with general current-awareness alerts, while SDI targets individual users by matching new information to their personal interest profiles.

How does Document Delivery differ from Inter Library Loan?

ILL lends or returns the actual item between libraries with a borrowing transaction, whereas Document Delivery supplies a copy (often the full text, frequently non-returnable) of the required document directly to the user.

Name two services associated with INFLIBNET for scholarly content access.

Shodhganga (repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations) and N-LIST / e-ShodhSindhu (consortium access to e-journals and e-books).

What is the key idea distinguishing Library 2.0 from traditional library service?

Library 2.0 emphasizes constant change and user participation, inviting users to co-create and continuously improve services through interactive technologies, rather than the library being a static provider.

Distinguish Social Tagging from Social Bookmarking.

Social tagging is assigning descriptive keywords to resources for classification, while social bookmarking is saving and sharing links to web resources; bookmarking platforms often use tagging to organize the saved links.

Which two organisations merged in 2002 to form NISCAIR, and under which council?

INSDOC (Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre) and NISCOM (National Institute of Science Communication) merged under CSIR to form NISCAIR.