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 bibliobase
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-This is a collaborate social science bibliographic database in bibtex format with a special focus on India
+This is a collaborative social science bibliographic database in bibtex format with a special focus on India
 
 This database was created by Vikas Rawal as a personal bibliographic database. It is used for bibliographic citations on http://www.indianstatistics.org