DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF
GATEWAY FOR
PLANT SCIENCE RESOURCES
By
P.NATHIYA
Research Supervisor
Mr. C. RANGANATHAN
Department of Library and Information Science
BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY
INTRODUCTION
A Subject gateway helps users to locate relevant and high quality
resources on the Internet.
A subject gateway is nothing but the facility that allows easier access to
network-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 gateway enables scholars to identify from a single point
location of much the information they need.
Statement of the problems:
The research analyzed the thrust areas of resource and resource for
plant science and the research tried to identify the subject gateway to
help and develop the research on plant science.
But the researcher found very minimal number of gateway on plant
science.
Based on the thrust areas of research on plant science of BDU and
the minimal availability of plant science subject gateway made the
researcher to choose the problem as “Design and Development of
subject Gateway for Plant science.”
The main objectives:
To create linked collection of internet-based high quality of Plant Science Subject
gateways.
To keep Plant Science Subject gateways journals and Newsletters of Institute’s online.
To establish a network of Plant Science Subject gateways studies/research centres
situated in different parts of the country for sharing research resources.
To provide online information of forthcoming conferences, seminars, training
workshops in Plant Science Subject gateways research/studies centre.
To connect websites of Plant Science Subject gateways studies departments of major
research institutes.
To link websites of other existing Plant Science Subject gateways information networks
and systems e.g., INFLIBNET, AGRIS, ENVIS, etc.
COLLECTION OF THE RESOURCE
The present study is the survey of the available Web resources pertaining
to the plant science profession, teaching, research, etc.
 The Web resources available on the Internet have been thoroughly
evaluated.
The researcher visited different online resources for the collection of data
and for linking of relevant Web resources related to the plant sciences.
 Each site has been searched and described by its content and categorized
according to information links.
The criteria and evaluation of Web resources have been used for the
collection of data and linking to the gateway.
Methodology
Designing of the gateway for plant science eresources is an information
consolidation product and its preparation demands certain skill and knowledge.
The major step which has to be followed for designing a gateway
are as following.
Identification of target users in plant science.
Planning of the gateway
Study of subject as discussed with experts, professionals etc
Identification of several information items available
Internet using various search engines.
Selection of information sources.
Categorization and arrangement of e –resources.
Tools use for Study:
Online tools for the data collection:
Search engines.
Meta search engines.
Online directories.
Websites related to library and information
science.
Reference and information sources on the Web.
Subject Coverage
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Environmental biotechnology
Marine science
Marine biotechnology
DEVELOPING A GATEWAY FOR PLANT SCIENCE
Currently with the easy and widespread use of the Internet and
WWW, there are thousands and thousands of websites available in
the cyberspace.
In a way, the available digital knowledge bases are filtered out
from the big digital ocean, and be placed in a system for easy
information access.
 An attempt has been made to Developing Gateway for plant
science. These are different collection in e-journal,e-Books, edatabase and National and International level gateway.
MY HOME PAGE:
Web Address: http://bdulifescience.weebly.com/
E-JOURNAL
An e-journal (electronic journal) is a journal published online. Full-text
journal articles are available via a platform that provide both browsing and
searching functions. Library users can access e-journals on the Library
Website, within the campus network.
E-Book’s
An eBook is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer,
laptop screen or on devices called ebook readers.
An eBook is an online version of a book. Usually much shorter in the
number of pages when compared to a traditional printed and bound book.
E-Database
An e-database is an organized collection of information, of a particular subject or
multi-disciplinary subject areas. The information of an e-database can be searched
and retrieved electronically.
E-THESIS
This site contains doctoral dissertations and other publications
from the University of All of these full-text publications are
freely accessible via the Internet.
Conclusion:
•The development of subject gateways in the Religious plant science
can be fulfilling the original purpose of providing resource
descriptions, a trend towards additional services like providing
content in form of articles or primary sources as well as providing
specialized communications platforms in form of discussion forum
and mailing lists can be observed.
•The vast amount of information available on the Internet can make
searching a long, Complicated process. The Subject Gateway
provides a more productive search.