Information Gateway of Social Sciences in India

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.