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'''SUBJECT GATEWAY ON SOCIAL SCIENCES '''

Introduction Internet today contains huge amount of global information. To access the required, specific, relevant, quality information is not easy job. The universe of knowledge is so vast that to find the desire piece of information on the web resources, search is done the following search tools like: Subject gateways, search engine and virtual library. Subject gateways also called as Meta resources in which low easier access to network-based resources in defined subject area. It use subject portal. Subject portal can be defined as an organized structured guide to internet based electronic information resources that are carefully selected after defined process to evaluation on a subject area. Subject portals are independent websites it is part of an institute or library website that are guide to internet resources considered appropriate for their target audiences. A subject portal site that is a part of institutional website may include resources that are on subscription by the parent organization accessible for free to all. Subject gateways provides search facilities of relevant information sources on the internet and are the created, designed, maintained and reviewed by librarians/sources of information and contain the full range of subject oriented internet which negate the possibility of repetition in the search results.

'''Subject Gateway '''        Subject specific web search engines are known as subject gateways. Subject gateways are websites that compile complete information on various resources available on a particular subject. Subject gateways allow easier access to network-based resources in a given subject area. They provide a simple web-based interface for search and access to databases and indexes. They are subject-centric in the sense that they host only information related to a particular subject. The compilation process is undertaken by information professionals and subject experts using well-established techniques to check and filter out the data and hence the information links shown by these services will in all probability be 100 per cent authentic. The resources of high quality collected by the subject gateway experts are properly catalogued and classified using data organization and classification schemes adopted and built on traditional and well-established principles of library science. In fact, subject gateways can be considered the Net equivalent of a library. The aim is to list and review the most important sites on the Web relevant to that subject. The sites are actually peer-reviewed to ensure that gateway is relevant and up-to-date. Being peer reviewed, it may avoid an important site that has recently appeared and has not yet been reviewed. Strengths include relevance, effectiveness and relatively high quality of content. Weaknesses are that they lack depth in their coverage of the subjects. Such sites are also called portals.

Examples 1. Intute Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/), a multi-subject gateway, is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. It helps to search web resources in different subjects.

'''2. Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL) '''      BUBL (http://bubl.ac.uk/) is a general gateway to all major academic subject resources for UK higher education, including other university library catalogues and electronic journals. It uses the Dewey decimal classification system as the primary organization structure for its catalogue of Internet resources. 3. Alex (http://www.infomotions.com/alex/) This gateway contains information on full-text digital documents available in the public domain on American literature, English literature and Western philosophy. An attraction of this site is the ‘free goodies’ (http://www.infomotions.com/alex/downloads/) section that helps download many famous works by great authors.

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 keeping in view the audience and context /content for inclusion into the subject gateway. The accepted resource is then classified, indexed and catalogued. The information to be accessed has a definite purpose and theme. The theme is usually subject oriented, therefore to have an access to subject oriented quality information one must search through the subject gateways. Subject gateways have an input of identified, selected, evaluated and assessed subject oriented information sources. A quality input provides a quality output search and it is easy for the user to decide whether the output is capable to match their requirement. These types of search facilities are created, designed and maintained by librarians /information professionals and /or subject experts with the aim of providing access to high quality sources of information, and also contain the full range of subject oriented Internet material which negates the possibility of repetition in the search results. The use of traditional cataloguing and classification, aims to ensure accurate subject description and to facilitate the retrieval. Evaluated/assessed information sources also provide a complete guide to determine the scope, value, purpose, comprehensiveness, usefulness and format of the information source accessed through the subject gateways on the Internet.

Gateways are working with W3c (World Wide Web Consortium) to see how RDF (Resource Description Framework model and syntax specification which aims to provide a basic infrastructure on the web to support the transfer and processing of metadata) can support high quality metadata collections. Librarians can work on creating metadata records for Internet resources and on finding their place in the metadata community. They can also start becoming familiar with the new metadata and Internet cataloguing standards so that all the records are compatible.

'''Subject Gateway on Social Science ''' i.	'No one can enter knowledge society successfully without being armed with the knowledge of social sciences. If the products of the natural sciences are compared to a computer (whatever be the size, a PC or supercomputer) the software (system software and the application software and various other knowledge /skill inputs relating to it) is the social science.' To promote high quality access to social science knowledge, truly and in real sense inauguration of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee subject Gateway on Social Sciences. It was done by Prof. Murli Manohar Joshi, Minister for Human Resource Development, Science and Technology and Ocean Development, Govt. of India on 12th May 2000. ii. The main mandate of the Gateway is to provide fast and easy access to high quality, relevant information sources, data, web pages, multimedia files and other relevant sites in social sciences available on the Internet via online catalogue where each resource is described and indexed under appropriate category. iii. The Gateway is a departmental store or special library of linked collection of selected high quality Internet based social science resources. It provides link with brief description to scholarly social science resources along with respect Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for its full text source document. Users can search the database keywords or browse the resources under subject headings.

In this Gateway links are provided to: a)	All social science subjects as enumerated by Indian Council of Social Science Research b)	Indian social scientists c)	Completed and on-going social science research projects. d)	Forthcoming conferences including training workshops for accessing digital and Internet based social science information e)	Social science institutions / libraries / teaching departments / ICSSR network of regional centers and its financially supported research institutes f)	Websites of other existing Indian Portals, Information networks e.g. INFLIBNET, DELNET etc. / International Gateways / virtual libraries in social sciences g)	Career development / job opportunities for social scientists / researchers in all sectors. Vision •	Social scientists shall be provided SDI Service by providing the information for currently added relevant Internet resources. Providing the opportunity to social scientists to submit online the information of newly created Internet resources to the catalogue of the Gateway. •	Keeping Indian databases and ICSSR journals online. Cyber Cafe  •	Cyber Cafe for social scientists to access Internet based resources has been developed. It is a paid service. The social scientists can make use of the service after paying the required amount. •	Short term on-going training courses for accessing digital and Internet based social science information for social scientists and information professionals working in academia, business, government, NGO and others are being conducted all over India.

Conclusion Information Gateway on Social Sciences is still to be achieved and leading towards to achieve its goals. By stepping into the gateway, social science scholars will find them in a big social science departmental store, navigating into the links, searching their needs and finding high quality social science information packed efficiently and effectively and also directing and linking them to something more or sufficient. Step out by these scholars shall load them with smile, satisfaction and packages of high quality social science information. References