UGC NET December 2014: Previous question papers, paper pattern

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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

UGC NET June 2014 / CBSE NET June 2014 Result Declared

Qualifying criteria & cut-off (%) for UGC-Net held on 29/06/2014

Result of UGC NET held on June 29, 2014

Questions

1.  “ Where  is wisdom  we have lost in –-          Knowledge

2.       The 1^st 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.   1^st satellite communication was started--          USA

13.   The name of 1^st 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

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

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

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 Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE || Q.NO. CORRECT CHOICE

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 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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Educational Databases

List of academic databases

Name	Discipline(s)	Description	Access Cost	Provider(s)
Academic Search	Multidisciplinary	Several versions: Complete, Elite, Premier, and Alumni Edition[1]	Subscription	EBSCO Publishing[2]
Aerospace & High Technology Database	Aerospace,Aeronautics,Astronautics		Subscription	ProQuest[3]
African Journals OnLine (AJOL)	Multidisciplinary	Scholarly journals published in Africa[4]	Free abstracts; Subscription full-text	African Journals OnLine[5]
AgeLine	Sociology,Gerontology	Includes information on aging-related topics, including economics, public healthand policy.	Subscription	EBSCO Publishing[6]
AGRICOLA: Agricultural Online Access	Agriculture		Free & Subscription	Produced by the United States National Agricultural Library. Free access provided byNAL.[7] Subscription access provided byProQuest,[8] OVID.[9]
AGRIS: Agricultural database	Agriculture	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	Produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.http://agris.fao.org AGRIS
Airiti Inc	Multidisciplinary	China, Taiwan.	Subscription	Airiti Inc[10]
Analytical Abstracts	Chemistry		Subscription	Royal Society of Chemistry[11]
Analytical sciences digital library	Analytical chemistry		Free	National Science Digital Library and the Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society[12]
Anthropological Index Online	Anthropology	Index only (no abstracts or full-text).	Free	Royal Anthropological Institute[13]
Anthropological Literature	Anthropology		Free to Harvard faculty, staff and students. Subscription for non-Harvard access.	Maintained by Harvard University. Non-Harvard access provided by OCLC[14]
Arachne	Archaeology, Art history	German language	Free	German Archaeological Institute & the University of Cologne[15]
Arnetminer	Computer Science	Online service used to index and search academic social networks	Free	Tsinghua University[16]
Arts & Humanities Citation Index	Arts, Humanities	Part of Web of Science	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[17]
arXiv	Physics,Mathematics,Computer science,Nonlinear sciences,Quantitative biology andStatistics		Free	Cornell University[18]
Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library	Computer Science,Engineering		Subscription	Association for Computing Machinery[19]
Astrophysics Data System	Astrophysics,Geophysics,Physics		Free	Harvard University[20]
ATLA Religion Database	Religious studies	Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues	Subscription	[21]
AULIMP: Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals	Military Science		Free	Air University[22]
BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine	Multidisciplinary		Free	Bielefeld University[23]
Beilstein database	Organic chemistry		Subscription	Available from Elsevier under the product name Reaxys[24]
Biological Abstracts	Biology	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]
BioOne	Biology,Ecology, andEnvironmental Science	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]
Bioinformatic Harvester	Biology,Bioinformatics	A meta search engine for 50 major bioinformatic databases and projects.	Free	Available from Liebel-Lab [1] KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [2]
Book Review Index Online	Book reviews		Subscription	Thomson Gale[27]
Books In Print	Books		Subscription	R.R. Bowker[28]
CAB Abstracts	Applied Life Sciences	Bibliographic information service providing access to applied life sciences literature.	Subscription	CABI[29]
Chemical Abstracts Service	Chemistry		Subscription	American Chemical Society[30]
ChemXSeer	Chemistry		Free	Pennsylvania State University[31]
Chinese Social Science Citation Index	Social sciences		Subscription	Nanjing University[32]
Cochrane Library	Medicine,Healthcare	Includes reviews of research to promote evidence-based healthcare.	Subscription	Wiley Interscience[33]
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health	Nursing, Allied Health		Subscription	EBSCO[34]
CiNii	Multidisciplinary	Database of 15 million articles in the Japanese language from 3600 journals.	Free abstracts; Subscription full-text	National Institute of Informatics[35]
CHBD: Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database	Medicine		Free	University of Calgary[36]
Citebase Search	Mathematics,Computer science, Physics	Semi-autonomous citation index of free online research	Free	University of Southampton[37]
CiteULike	Computer science		Free
CiteSeer	Computer Science	Replaced by CiteSeerX.	Free	Pennsylvania State University[38]
CiteSeerX	Computer science,Statistics,Mathematics, becoming Multidisciplinary		Free	Pennsylvania State University[39]
CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archives	Science(General)		Free	University of Southampton[40]
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies	Computer science		Free	Alf-Christian Achilles[41]
Compendex	Engineering	Electronic version of Engineering Index.	Subscription	Elsevier[42]
Current Index to Statistics	Statistics	Limited free search[43]	Subscription	American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[44]
Current Contents	Multidisciplinary	Part of Web of Knowledge. Contains 7 discipline-specific subsets.	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[45]
Directory of Open Access Journals	Journals		Free	Lund University[46]
DBLP	Computer science	Comprehensive list of papers from major computer science conferences and journals	Free	University of Trier, Germany
EconBiz	Economics	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	Produced by the ZBW- German National Library of Economics– Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)[47]
EconLit	Economics	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]
EMBASE	Biomedicine,Pharmacology	Biomedical database with a strong focus on drug and pharmaceutical research.	Subscription	Elsevier[50]
ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center	Education	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.
Food Science and Technology Abstracts	Food science,Food technology,Nutrition	The world's leading database of information on food science, food technology and nutrition	Subscription	Produced by the International Food Information Service. Access provided by OVID, Web of Knowledge, Dialog, DataStar and STN International[52]
GENESIS	Women's history	Descriptions of women's history collections from sources in the UK, as well as women's history websites.	Free	London Metropolitan University[53]
Global Health	Public Health	Specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing datatabase dedicated to public health research and practice.	Subscription	CABI[54]
Golm Metabolome Database	Mass spectrometry	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	Golm Metabolome Database[55]
Google Scholar	Multidisciplinary		Free	Google[56]
GoPubMed	Medicine	GoPubMed, the first knowledge-based search engine for the life sciences industry.	Free	Transinsight[57]
HubMed	Medicine	An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database	Free	Alf Eaton[58]
IEEE Xplore	Computer Science,Engineering,Electronics		Subscription	IEEE[59]
Index Copernicus	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]
Information Bridge: Department of Energy Scientific and Technical Information	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	United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information[62]
Informit	Multidisciplinary	Australasian aggregator of bibliographic databases and journals	N/A	RMIT Publishing[63]
IngentaConnect	Multidisciplinary		Free searching; Subscription full-text	Ingenta[64]
Indian Citation Index	Multidisciplinary	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	ICI[65]
Inspec	Physics,Engineering,Computer Science	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	IET[66]
International Directory of Philosophy	Philosophy	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	Philosophy Documentation Center[67]
Intute	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	Intute[68]
JournalSeek	Multidisciplinary	Open access journals in different language	Links to journal's home page and publishers	JournalSeek[69]
JSTOR: Journal Storage	Multidisciplinary (Historical)		Subscription	JSTOR[70]
JournalSeek	Multidisciplinary	Open access journals in different language	Links to journal's home page and publishers	JournalSeek[69]
Lesson Planet	Education (K-12)	Over 400,000 teacher-reviewed classroom resources including lesson plans, worksheets, educational videos, and education articles.	Free Abstract; Subscription full-text	Lesson Planet[71]
LexisNexis	Law (general)	Electronic database for legal and public-records related information	Subscription	Reed Elsevier[72]
MathSciNet	Mathematics	Available in print as Mathematical Reviews	Subscription	American Mathematical Society[73]
MedlinePlus	Medicine		Free	Produced by the United States National Library of Medicine, the United States National Institutes of Health, and the United States Department of Health and Human Services[74]
Mendeley	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	Mendeley[75]
Merck Index	Chemistry,Biology,Pharmacology	Also available in print.	Subscription	Produced by Merck & Co.. Available fromCambridgeSoft Corporation, Dialog, Knovel,MedicinesComplete, STN International[76]
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts	Meteorology,Astrophysics,Geology		Subscription	Produced by the American Meteorological Society. Available from Dialog[77] and CSA.[78]
Microsoft Academic Search	Computer Science and a limited extent on information science	Provides many innovative ways to explore scientific papers, conferences, journals, and authors[79]	Free	Microsoft
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research	Economics		Free	National Bureau of Economic Research[80]
National Criminal Justice Reference Service[81]	Criminology, Sociology	Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, agency and NGO reports, and conference proceedings	Free	United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs[82]
National Diet Library Collection	Multidisciplinary	Japanese. Catalog for the National Library of Japan.	N/A	National Diet Library[83]
OAIster	Multidisciplinary		Free	OCLC[84]
OpenSIGLE	Grey literature	Indexes European grey literature.	Free	Institut de l'information scientifique et technique[85]
Philosophy Documentation Center eCollection	Applied ethics,Philosophy,Religious studies	Journals, series, conference proceedings, and other works from several countries online.	Free abstract & preview; Subscription full-text	Philosophy Documentation Center[86]
Philosophy Research Index	Philosophy	Index of books, journals, disserations, and other documents	Subscription	Philosophy Documentation Center[86]
PhilPapers	Philosophy		Free	PhilPapers[87]
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials	Philosophy,applied ethics,religious studies	Journals and series, online access for institutions with print	Free abstract & preview; Subscription full-text	Philosophy Documentation Center[86]
POPLINE	Population,Family Planning,Reproductive Health	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	Knowledge for Health, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health[88]
PsycINFO	Psychology	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]
Psychology's Feminist Voices	Psychology	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]
PubChem	Chemistry		Free	National Center for Biotechnology Informationand the U.S. National Library of Medicine[92]
Pubget	Multidisciplinary		Subscription	Pubget
PubMed	Biomedical		Free	National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine[93]
PubPsych	Psychology	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	Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information
Questia: Online Research Library	Multidisciplinary (Historical)		Subscription	Questia[94]
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature	Journals and Magazines	Coverage: 1983–present.	Subscription	H. W. Wilson Company[95]
Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890–1982	Journals and Magazines		Subscription	H. W. Wilson Company[96]
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics	Economics		Free	Volunteer Collaboration[97]
Retina medical search	Biomedical	Biomedical resources with special focus for medical professionals. searches among physician level standard documents eliminating patient level materials.	Free	Retina medical search[98]
Rock's Backpages	Music	Primary documents from the history of rock and roll	Subscription. Limited free access with registration.	Backpages Limited[99]
Russian Science Citation Index	Scientific journals	A bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian.	Free	Scientific Electronic Library[100]
SafetyLit	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	Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University[101] and the World Health Organization's Department of Violence and Injury Prevention[102]
SciDiver.com	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	SciDiver.com[103]
SciELO	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
Science.gov	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]
Science Accelerator	Multidisciplinary	A gateway to results of DOE research and development and major R&D accomplishments of interest to DOE.	Free	United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information.[105]
Science Citation Index	Science(General)	Part of Web of Science	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[106]
ScienceDirect	Multidisciplinary		Subscription	Elsevier[107]
Scopus	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	Elsevier[108]
SearchTeam	Multidisciplinary	Students search together collaboratively for scholarly articles and resources	Free	Zakta[109]
Social Science Citation Index	Social science	Part of Web of Science	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[110]
Socol@r: Socolar	Multidisciplinary	Scholarly open access resources in different language	Free abstracts; Links to full-text	Socolar[111]
SSRN: Social Science Research Network	Social science	Contains an abstracts database and an electronic paper collection, arranged by discipline.	Free	Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.[112]
SSRRN: Social Science Research Resources Network	Social science	Indexes datasets and statistical codes	Free	Social Science Research Resources Network=[113]
SPIRES-HEP	Physics, (High Energy)		Free	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center & partners[114]
SpringerLink	Multidisciplinary		Free abstract & preview; Subscription full-text	Springer[115]
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory	Periodicals		Subscription	ProQuest[116]
VET-Bib	Social Science,Education	European vocational education and training (VET) literature	Free	European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training[117]
Web of Knowledge	Multidisciplinary	Includes other products, such as Web of Science, Biological Abstracts & The Zoological Record	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[118]
Web of Science	Science(General)	Includes other products, such as Social Science Citation Index & Science Citation Index.	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[119]
WestLaw	Law (General)		Subscription	Thomson Reuters
WorldCat	Multidisciplinary	Unified catalog of member libraries' catalogs	Free & Subscription	OCLC[120]
WorldWideScience	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]
Zasshi Kiji Sakuin: Japanese Periodicals Index	Journals	Japanese.	N/A	National Diet Library's Online Catalog,[122]MagazinePlus,[123] CiNii[124]
Zentralblatt MATH	Mathematics	First three records free without subscription.	Subscription	Springer Science+Business Media[125]
The Zoological Record	Zoology	Unofficial register of scientific names & papers in Zoology. Coverage 1864–present.	Subscription	Thomson Reuters[126]