How to start a subject gateways for a management college library

[vijay]

What are subject gateways? What are its benefits? What are the softwares needed to start subject gateways? How to start a Subject Gateway for our Management College Library so that it can be access by all the students and staff on intranet.

[Mrs.K Kavita Rao]

"Subject gateways are online services and sites that provide searchable and browseable catalogues of Internet based resources. Subject gateways will typically focus on a related set of academic subject areas."

A subject gateway is an Internet service with a primary focus on
distributed, Internet resources. It can, however, include surrogates
to resources not directly accessible on the Internet.

Visit the following site where you can find the List of all Recommended Subject Gateways:
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library/online/web...

The definition of subject gateways is deliberately kept very open.
There is a need for a term for each kind of service:
a) the link lists with minimal description and shallow subject
structure; here called subject gateways (cf. above) and
b) the subject services with high standards for quality-control and
with rich description and structure, here called quality-controlled
subject gateways.
To know more about quality controlled subject gateways read the paper available at
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/publ/OIR-SBIG.txt

[Dr. Rajpal Purohit]

an Internet service listing (usually) on-line resources for a particular subject area. The resources included will have been reviewed by subject specialists before inclusion.

[vijay]

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[Parvez Ahmad]

Subject Gateways are a great place to find important research tools and resources for a particular subject area. It allows to browse subject lists of good quality and evaluated subject resources and provide access to reliable and up-to-date web resources for all subjects, which have carefully chosen and quality checked by experts in their field. The resources listed here often include Research Databases and other important resources that the library owns, as well as free resources available on the internet. other names of subject gateways are subject guides, subject directories and subject portals.
Many of the activities and research projects within DESIRE are focused on developing the ideas behind this definition of a subject gateway, as well as developing methodology and tools that provide the functionality needed for a subject gateway to function. DESIRE is also concerned with promoting the implementation of subject gateways.


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[Jayshree Dave]

Subject gateways is nothing but the facility that allows easier access to networked-based
resources in a definite subject area. The simplest type of subject gateways are sets of web
pages containing lists of links to resources. “Subject gateways” as a term was popularized
in the UK Electronic Libraries Programme ( e- lib)

Libraries are the most suitable institution to undertake this work due to the following
reasons:
The natural metaphor
- Browsing, reference desk
Expertise in relevant areas
- Classification, acquisition, keywords
- Information, seeking behaviour
- Guiding & helping users