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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PHYSICS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PHYSICS SUBJECT GATEWAY AT BHARATHIDASAN SUBJECT GATEWAY AT BHARATHIDASAN
UNIVERSITY LIBRARYUNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Guide:Guide:DR. R. BALASUBRAMANIDR. R. BALASUBRAMANI
Assistant ProfessorAssistant ProfessorDepartment of LISDepartment of LIS
Bharathidasan UniversityBharathidasan UniversityTiruchirappalliTiruchirappalli
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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION• Subject Gateway is an organized collection of
resources on a given subject along with a retrieval
mechanism.
• This essentially means that the scope of the search
domain is well defined and limited to a subset of what
exists in general.
• In the simplest form, the resources may be made
available as a structured hyper-linked directory as
followed by some of the search engines sites that offer
directory services.
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NEED FOR A PHYSICS SUBJECT GATEWAY
In order to access information, students, researchers as well as
teachers keep shuttling between e-books, e-journals, patents, theses,
and so on.
To give a bird’s eye view of various resources in the field of Physics, a
single window service was conceptualized in the form of a Physics
portal.
It aims to provide information related to Physics and its allied
subjects, through a single user interface and to access a wide variety
of electronic resources in the field, scholarly information sources that
are available in full text on the web.
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To filter and organize the scholarly open access resources on Physics.
To identify the web links of scholarly open access resources on Physics
To provide the information exhaustively on physics to satisfy the subject specific needs of
users.
To provide single entry point for multiple resources on physics.
To provide links for the leading institution and experts scattered over the net.
To reduce the difficulty of using different search engines, by using this gateway.
To make available the content information / data through network effectively to end-users.
To provide easy access to information on the internet.
To provide value-added information;
To deliver relevant and up-to-date information through user-defined filters;
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
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PLAN OF THE WORKPLAN OF THE WORK To design the subject gateway of scholarly resources in physics with
a special focus to researchers in physics.
Researcher had a regular meeting with faculty and research
scholars of physics department to know the requirements of their
research.
Based on their requirements, researcher has planned the subject
gateway.
Researcher started collecting all the scholarly open access
resources from various internet sources on physics.
Before adding to our subject gateway the researcher has evaluated
the contents based on the following criteria.
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COVERAGE:COVERAGE:Subject : Physics subjects covered under the Science
Acceptable Sources: Academic sources are all
acceptable.
Level: The Target group for included journals should be
primarily researchers.
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Content: A substantive part of the journal consists of research
papers. All identified content available in full text.
Access: All content freely available.
Quality: For a journal to be included it must
exercise quality control on submitted
papers through an editor, editorial board
and / or a peer-review system.
Then selected all the evaluated content
f or the uploading in to Webnode Free Website.
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STEPS IN DEVELOPNG A SUBJECT GATEWAYSTEPS IN DEVELOPNG A SUBJECT GATEWAY
Planning:
The purpose, goal(s), target audience, content needed and the overall style
wanted are outlined. Hosting service free or commercial is also picked up.
What to use:
What colours do we want to use? How to keep the look of our site consistent?
Why content is so important? What graphics should we add? How will visitors
navigate our site? How can we layout our pages?
Colours:
One should learn about using colour on the website, what the key to using
colour is, what are browser safe colours, and what colours to use and not use.
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Cont.,Cont.,Consistency:
One should learn why website consistency is important and what
roles our one colors, image styles, layout styles, navigation style, and
footer play.
Content:
One should learn why ones website content is considered the most
important aspect building of a website.
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Graphics:
With a careful selection of icons, bullets, and bars one can give the site a
personality all its own. One should learn how to use graphics properly on
website.
Navigation:
One should learn how to create a simple and effective system to navigate the
website.
Gateway style:
Style is defined through layout, design and personalization of web pages. One
should learn about the basic styles used for website design and which style is
best suited according to the requirement.
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LOGINLOGIN
http://www.webnode.com/sign-in/?no_renew=1&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webnode.com%2Fsign-in%2F
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MANAGE WEBSITEMANAGE WEBSITE
http://www.webnode.com/my-webnode-projects/
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EDIT PAGEEDIT PAGE
http://user.physicssubjectgateways.webnode.com/admin/
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Physics Subject Gateway Home PagePhysics Subject Gateway Home Page
http://physicssubjectgateways.webnode.com///
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CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION In the age of information explosion, when everybody is talking of
information overload, satisfying users’ information needs in a simple,
personalized and efficient way is becoming a challenge for library and
information centres. Just subscribing to online sources does not serve the
purpose until and unless the users are informed about them so that such
resources are fully utilized.
Hence, such portals are important as they are user friendly and provide
information through a single window. It is extremely useful for researchers
as they can find all the information related to their discipline at one place.