Table of contents
The subject gateway: experiences and issues based on the emergence of the Resource Discovery Network
Lorcan DempseyCharts the history and development of the UK’s Resource Discovery Network, which brings together under a common business, technical and service framework a range of subject…
Quality‐controlled subject gateways: definitions, typologies, empirical overview
Traugott Koch“Quality‐controlled subject gateways” are Internet services which apply a rich set of quality measures to support systematic resource discovery. Considerable manual effort is used…
Architecture and software solutions
Tracy Gardner, Renato IannellaThe current subject gateways have evolved over time when the discipline of Internet resource discovery was in its infancy. This is reflected by the lack of well‐established…
Information gateways: collaboration on content
Rachel HeeryInformation gateways provide targeted discovery services for their users, giving access to Web resources selected according to quality and subject coverage criteria. Information…
DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service – a Dutch national collaborative effort
Marianne PeereboomThis article gives an overview of the design and organisation of DutchESS, a Dutch information gateway created as a national collaborative effort of the National Library and a…
CORC: a system for gateway creation
Thomas B. HickeyCORC is an OCLC project that is developing tools and systems to enable libraries to provide enhanced access to Internet resources. By adapting and extending library techniques and…
SOSIG: an Internet hub for the social sciences, business and law
Debra HiomSOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social…
Promoting a subject gateway: a case study from EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)
Roddy MacLeodDescribes the development of the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) (http://eevl.ac.uk) and outlines the services offered. The potential market for EEVL is discussed…
SSG‐FI – special subject gateways to high quality Internet resources for scientific users
Thomas Fischer, Heike NeurothProject SSG‐FI at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen (Germany) provides special subject gateways to international high quality Internet resources for…
NOVAGate – a Nordic gateway to electronic resources in the forestry, veterinary and agricultural sciences
Adrian PriceNOVAGate is a subject‐based information gateway covering electronic resources in the agricultural, veterinary and related fields. The service, which opened in July 1998, is…
Australian subject gateways: political and strategic issues
Debbie CampbellThe key political and strategic issues which need to be addressed for the future development of the Australian subject gateways are: continued quality of content creation…
An EASIER way to search online engineering resource
Geir Granum, Phil BarkerEEVL, the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, consists of several distinct resources, which exist as separate databases. This article describes the approach taken to tackle a…
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- Professor Eugenia Siapera