IMPORTANT MEANINGS - ABBREVIATIONS & DATES

•  Scopus: Abstract and citation database of research literature

•  J-Store (1995): Journal Storage

•  Emeralds: Full text Journal Publishers

•  Science Direct: Full-text scientific database

•  ERIC: Education Resources Information Center, is the world's largest digital library of

education literature

•  J-Gate (2001): J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature

•  Project MUSE (1993): Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers

•  EBSCO: Reference Databases

•  Pubmed: Citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE

•  IndMed: A Bibliographic Database of Indian Biomedical Literature is an indexing of

medical and other biomedical journals from India not cover in Medline

•  INIS: The INIS Database, contains over 3 million bibliographic records

•  LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and

indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists

•  Genamics JournalSeek: Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized

database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database

presently contains 95320 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and

scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.

•  Econlit: The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes

more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and

abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal

articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations

•  REPEC: Research Papers in economics. Collaborative volunteer effort to enhance the

dissemination of research in economics. The database contains information on more than

585,000 items

•  OCLC Worldcat: A global catalog of library collections.

•  Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) Public Libraries Act. 1948

•  Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act. 1960

•  Karnataka Public Library Act 1965

•  Maharashtra Public Libraries Act 1967

•  West Bengal Public Libraries Act 1979

•  Manipur Public Libraries Act 1988

•  Kerala Public Libraries Act 1989

•  Haryana Public Libraries Act 1989

•  Mizoram Public Libraries Act 1993

•  Goa Public Libraries Act 1993

•  Gujarat Public Libraries Act 2002

•  Orissa Public Library Act 2002

•  Uttaranchal Public Libraries Act, 2005.

•  Rajasthan Public Libraries Act 2006

•  Delhi Public Library 1951

•  DRTC, Bangalore 1962

•  Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation 1972

•  Connemara Public Library 1890

•  Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library 1891

•  Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune 1917

•  Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh 1774

•  State Lenin Library, Moscow 1862

•  National Library of India- 1835

•  Bibliothec Nationale, Pris (National Library, France) 1440

•  National Diet Library, Japan 1948

•  National Library, Germany 1912

•  Library of Congress, USA 1800

•  Library Association (UK)-1877 now Known as Chartered institute of Library and

Information Professionals (From 2002) 1877 (now name changed in 2002 as CILIP)

•  American Library Association- 1876

•  Association of Special Libraries and Information Beureaux –ASLIB 1926

•  IFLA-1929 1929 UBC-1974, UAP-1976

•  Special Library Association(SLA) 1909

•  FID 1982

•  UNESCO 1945

•  India Library Association 1933

•  IASLIC 1955

•  RRRLF 1972

•  DDC by Melvil Dewey 1876

•  Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter- 1879

•  Library of Congress Classification 1902

•  Subject Classification by J. D. Brown 1906

•  Colon Classification 1933

•  Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss 1935

•  International Classification by F. Rider 1961.

•  Library of Congress Subject Headings 1898

•  Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH) 1923

•  AACR first published 1908

•  MARC 1966

•  AACR-I 1967

•  CCF 1972

•  ISBD 1974

•  UNIMARC 1977

•  AACR-II 1978

•  Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) 1967

•  Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN 1974

•  Joint Academic Network (JANET)

•  Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) 1997

•  China Academic Library & Information System 1998

•  NICNET 1977

•  CALIBNET 1986

•  ERNET 1986

•  INFLIBNET 1988

•  DELNE 1992

•  ADINET 1993

•  MALIBNET 1993

•  MYLIBNET 1994

•  UGC INFONET 2002

•  HELINET 2003

•  Asia and Pacific Information Network (APIN)

•  Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC) 1986

•  Global Network for Education in Journalism 1999

•  Orbicom 1994

•  UNESCO Network for Associated Library (UNAL)

•  UNISIST Programme 1971

•  CDS/ISIS 1985

•  WINISIS Distributed

•  SOUL 2000

•  GREENSTONE 1997

•  DSPACE 2002

•  KOHA 2000

•  NEWGENLIB 2007

•  EPRINTS 2000

•  Relational Indexing- J.E.L.Farradane 1950

•  Coats Subject Indexing- E.J. Coats 1963

•  PRECIS-Derek Austin 1974

•  POPSI- G. Bhattacharya 1964

•  Kaisers systematic Indexing 1911

•  UNITERM- Martimer Taube 1953

•  Science Citation Index 1974

•  Social Science Citation Index 1973

•  Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1978

•  Roget’s Thesaurus 1852

•  Andhra Pradesh Library Association, 1914

•  Maharashtra Library Association, 1921

•  Bengal Library Association, 1925

•  Madras Library Association, 1928

•  Karnataka Library Association, 1929

•  Punjab Library Association, 1929

•  Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti, 1931

•  Bihar Library Association, 1936

•  Assam Library Association, 1938

•  Utkal Library Association, 1944

•  Kerala Library Association, 1945

•  Hyderabad Library Association, 1951

•  U.P.Library Association, 1951

•  Delhi Library Association, 1953

•  Gujarat library Association, 1953

•  Madhya Bharat Library Association, 1957

•  Gomantak Library Association, 1961

•  Rajasthan Library Association, 1962

•  Jammu & Kashmir Library Association, 1966

•  Tripura Library Association, 1967

•  Manipur Library Association, 1987

•  Mizoram Library Association, 1987

•  Meghalaya Library Association, 1994

•  Nagaland Library Association, 1996