Choudhry, Om Kumari(INFLINET Centre, February NaN, 2003)
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Abstract:
Subject Gateways provides search facilities of relevant information sources on the Internet and are
created, designed, maintained and reviewed by librarians/information professionals and/or subject
experts with the aim of providing access to high quality sources of information and contain the full
range of subject oriented internet material which negate the possibility of repetition in the search
results. The use of traditional cataloguing and classification aims to ensure accurate subject
description. Thus the quality input provides a quality output search and it is for the user to decide
whether the output is capable to match their requirement. Gateways also give an opportunity to
authors/scholars/users to provide an input of information resource through its template, though it is
further evaluated and assessed by gateway editors. Selection procedure, collection management policy,
scope policy and reviewing the information Gateway has been included in brief. ICSSR is the
sponsoring body of the Information Gateway of Social Sciences, thus the paper has been concluded by
providing the recommendations for ICSSR.