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Permalink Reply by Santosh Kumar Kori on July 14, 2015 at 21:05

Dear Sir, It depend on users and his questions, what they want. As a Librarian or Library professional we should to ready for facing some new quarry and how to fulfill the same. google is best tool for information searching in current era. 

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on July 14, 2015 at 22:35

Thanks Mr kori for your suggestion.

I am searching for some books/documents( if available) on the various reference queries problems and their tentative solutions.

regards

Surajit.

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Permalink Reply by VIVEKANAND JAIN on July 15, 2015 at 20:50

Free e-Reference sources (suggested by Dr P. Visakhi, ICAR) I have copied earlier and now forwarding to you. V Jain

A. Encyclopedias
a. Columbia Encyclopedia (http://www.bartleby.com/65/ )
b. Encyclopedia of Psychology (http://www.psychology.org/ )
c. Medical Encyclopedia (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html)
d. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/ )
e. WebMD (http://www.webmd.com/ )
B. Dictionaries, Thesauri

Language Dictionaries
a. Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp)
b. English to Punjabi Dictionary ( (http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Dictionary)
c. Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/ )
d. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary( http://www.oup.com/ )
Subject Dictionaries
e. CABI Thesaurus
f. Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html
g. Dictionary of the Social Sciences ( http://socialsciencedictionary.nelson.com )
h. Library Automation/Technology Glossary (http://www.libraryhq.com/glossary.html )
i. Medical Dictionary ( http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
j. Roget’s Int. Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases http://www.bartleby.com/110/ )
k. Roget's Thesaurus ( http://thesaurus.reference.com/ )
C. Yearbooks, Almanacs, Handbooks
e. Union Budget & Economic Survey ( http://indiabudget.nic.in/ )
f. Global Corruption Report 2005 ( http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/
g. Guinness Book of World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/)
h. Human Development Reports ( http://hdr.undp.org/reports/)
i. Sipri Yearbook (http://editors.sipri.se/pubs/yearb.html )
j. World Development Indicators 2005 http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi2005/wditext/index2.htm
k. World Fact book 2004 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
D. Sources of Biographical Information
a. Biographical Dictionary ( http://www.s9.com/biography/)
b. Bi ographies of Great Indians http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/
E. Sources of Geographical Information
a. City Population http://www.citypopulation.de/
b. Geography http://www.citypopulation.de/
c. Global Gazetteer http://www.calle.com/world/
d. Imperial Gazetteer of India http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/
e. Imperial Gazetteer of India (Maps) http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/
f. Indian Historical Maps http://www.geocities.com/narenp/history/maps.htm
g. Internet Resources : Geographical Data http://bubl.ac.uk/link/g/geographicaldata.htm
h. Maps and GIS sources on the World http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/maps.html
i. Maps of India http://www.mapsofindia.com/
j. Population Reference Bureau http://www.prb.org/
k. Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
l. World Atlas http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
m. World Flag Database (http://www.flags.net/index.php
n. World Gazetteer ( http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm
F. Sources of Statistical Information
a. Census of India (http://www.censusindia.net/ )
b. Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/
c. Demographic and Health Surveys http://www.measuredhs.com/
d. Human Development Resource Centre http://hdrc.undp.org.in/
e. Indian Health Statistical Database http://www.indiahealthstat.com/indian/health/National_Family_Health...
f. International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/
g. International Statistical yearbooks http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/yearbook/yearmain.htm
h. National Family Health Survey (NFHS), India http://nfhsindia.org/index.html
i. Reserve Bank of India http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/Statistics.aspx
j. UNICEF Statistical Data http://www.unicef.org/statis/
k. WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm
l. World Bank Data & Statistics http://www.worldbank.org/data/
m. World Trade Organization (WTO) http://www.wto.org/
G. Sources of Educational Information
a. All India Council For Technical Education(AICTE) http://www.aicte.ernet.in/aicte/home.htm
b. Association of Indian Universities(AIU) http://www.aiuweb.org/
c. Association of Commonwealth Universities(AICU) http://www.acu.ac.uk/
d. Colleges & Universities Worldwide http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Un...
e. Educational Profile of Indian States & UTs http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/stateeduprofile.htm
f. Educational Scholarships http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/scho.htm
g. Educational Statistics http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/edusta.htm
h. Google Directory for Indian Education http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Education/
i. Higher Education in India http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/higedu.htm
j. International Association of Universities(IAU) http://www.unesco.org/iau/index.html
k. National Policy on Education(NPE) http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/natpol.htm
l. Sources of Funding for International Students - Education http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/funding/
m. Study Abroad http://www.studyabroad.com/
n. Technical Education in India http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/tecedu.htm
o. UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/
p. University Grants Commission (UGC) http://www.ugc.ac.in/
H. Standards and Patents
a. Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) http://www.bis.org.in/
b. Current Awareness Services: Patents and Standards http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/current/patents.htm
c. European Patent Office(EPO) http://ep.espacenet.com/
d. Google Directory of Patents http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Intel...
e. Google Directory of Standards http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Reference/Standards/
f. Indian Patents Database http://pk2id.delhi.nic.in/
g. Patents & Standards http://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/internet/patents.html
h. United States Patents(USPTO) http://www.uspto.gov/
I. Indian Reference Sources
a. Digital Library of India http://www.dli.ernet.in/
b. Five Year Plans http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/welcome.html
c. GISTNIC (GISTNIC) http://gist.ap.nic.in/
d. Gateway to Government of India Info over the web http://www.indiaimage.nic.in/
e. Govt. of India: Directory of Educational Institutions http://goidirectory.nic.in/education.html
f. Indian Presidents, Prime Ministers http://www.webindia123.com/history/MODERN/preside.htm
g. Internet Indian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
h. Online Encyclopedia of Indian politicians http://www.newsnetindia.org/
J. Portals for Open Access Journals
a) Open J-gate : http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSearch.aspx
b) Directory of Open Access Journals : http://www.doaj.org/
K Open SMT & Biomedical Engineering Journals
a) http://www.bentham.org/index.htm
b) http://www.springerlink.com/content/
c) http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcvetres
d) http://www.saudijgastro.com/
e) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/grp/
f) http://www.biogeosciences.net/
g) http://www.turkjbiochem.com/eng/index.html

L. e-Thesis
Vidyanidhi: Indian Theses Database : http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/
M. e-Books
1. Bartleby: Geart Books Online ( http://www.bartleby.com/ )
2. Digital Book Index (http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm)
3. Free Tech Books (http://www.freetechbooks.com/ )
4. Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/ )
5. Medical Books (http://www.freebooks4doctors.com )
6. FreePDFeBooksArchive : http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1
7. Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/
8. Read Print http://www.readprint.com/
9. WikiBooks :http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
10. Agricultural free e-books : http://nsdl.niscair.res.in/
11. ACM Digital Library : http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
12. DigitalLibraryat the University of Pennsylvania : http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
13. Digital Library of India(1) : http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
14. Digital Library of India(2) : http://dli.iiit.ac.in/
15. IEEE Computer Society's Dgital Library : http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl
16. IET(Institution of Engineering and Technology) Digital Library
17. http://www.ietdl.org/
18. International Children's Digital Library : http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
19. Kalasampada: Digital Library Resource of Indian Cultural Heritage : http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
20. New York Digital Library Collections : http://www.nypl.org/digital/
21. National Science Digital Library : http://ndsl.org/
22. Oxford Digital Library : http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/
23. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library http://www.tkdl.res.in/
24. Universal Digital Library : http://www.ulib.org/
e-Conference Alerts
1. Conference Alerts (http://www.conferencealerts.com/ )
2. Conferences and Events (http://www.chemsoc.org/events/conhome.htm )
3. GoogleDirectoryofConferences http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Conferences/

Dr P. Visakhi
ICAR & IASRI
visakhi[at]iasri[dot]res[dot]in

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on July 16, 2015 at 19:03

Respected V.Jain sir,
I am very much honoured getting your response. Its a in-depth work indeed. I will definitely try to grab the knowledge from the above document and will use it in my daily services.

Thank your very much and with warm regards,

Surajit Sarkar

Kolkata

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Permalink Reply by P Suvarna Devi on July 20, 2015 at 23:42

I appreciate your keen work on collecting various reference web sites.

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Permalink Reply by TK Ghosh on July 24, 2015 at 23:02

Many thanks to you for very important e-reference sources

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Permalink Reply by gauthaman manickam on July 16, 2015 at 6:17

Dear librarian, I appreciate your service mind.Like to suggest read the book Reference service by S R Renganathan .It will guide how to face the reference queries.First you should acquaint with your library collection be it print or e-sources.Then near by libraries.whenever attend seminar/conference/workshop have informal chat it will help.Have contact with professors ,academics.the nature of the service may differ from user to user.some maybe meek others may be aggressive,maybe a new user.

Reference service-SRR is available in web 

good luck

M.Gauthaman-9486291986

Reference Librarian

Library,The Tamil University

Thanjavur,Tamilnadu

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on July 20, 2015 at 1:12

Dear G.manickam sir,

I am very much thankful to your to getting your valuable suggesations. yes I also obey with your vision that library service varies with the environment. I will definitly go through with the book of Prof. Ranganathan.  

with regards,

Surajit.

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Permalink Reply by S.Prabhu on July 16, 2015 at 17:52

Thanks for sharing @  Vivekanand Jain Sir....

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