Subject gateways and other services using ROADS
This page lists those services which are running either a partial or a full ROADS-based subject gateway. An interesting exercise for people new to ROADS-based gateways, or gateways in general, is to play with some of these services and see how different they are in look, feel and functionality. The Web-based user interfaces for ROADS-based gateways are easy to configure to whatever individual style people want; this can be especially useful for people interested in converting an existing gateway or index into a ROADS-based service, and who want to retain some of the "look and feel" of the current service.
ADAM - Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
Main contact: Rebecca Bradshaw -- rebecca@adam.ac.uk
Sample search: mackintosh
URL: http://adam.ac.uk/index.shtml
ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community.
ALEX - a catalogue of electronic texts
Main contact: Eric Lease Morgan -- eric_morgan@ncsu.edu
Sample search: twain
URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
ALEX, the catalogue of electronic texts, is an example of a "conversion gateway". ALEX started life as a gopher-based collection of resources; after conversion into a WAIS-based system, searchable through the Web, the catalogue was automatically converted into a ROADS-based gateway system. The gateway index contains some 2,000 resources, the subject matter being the full-text of publications e.g. "War and Peace" in its entirety. As well as searching across the resource descriptions, you can also search across the full-text of several of these resources in one go; another recent development automatically generates a PDF file out of the contents of a located and selected resource.
BeCal - Belief, Culture and Learning Information Gateway
Main contact: Gary Prosser -- gary.prosser@trinity-bris.ac.uk
Sample search: values
Contains peer-reviewed educational and research resources concerning belief, culture and values.
Main contact: Kate Sharp -- bized-info@bris.ac.uk
Sample search: economic modelling
Biz/ed is a unique business and economics service for students, teachers and lecturers.
EELS - Engineering Electronic Library
Main contact: Traugott Koch -- Traugott.Koch@ub2.lu.se
URL: http://www.ub2.lu.se/eel/eelhome.html
An information system for quality assessed information resources on the Internet. EELS is an attempt to provide mainly the technical universities with links to evaluated resources. EELS is a cooperative project of the Swedish Univ. of Technology Libraries.
The Finnish Virtual Library Project
Sample search: drugs
URL: http://www.uku.fi/kirjasto/virtuaalikirjasto/
The Finnish Virtual Library project, launched in 1995 and funded directly by the Finnish Ministry of Education, aims to form a foundation for a Finnish field-specific subject index of subject gateways. A collection of libraries have produced individual virtual libraries in 40 subject areas; these are now being converted into a gateway format, and offered as bilingual services in Finnish and English. The Kuopio University Virtual Library has mounted its Virtual Library as a ROADS-based gataway, covering the subject areas of Clinical Nutrition, Neurosciences and Pharmacy.
Main contact: history@ihrinfo.ac.uk -- history@ihrinfo.ac.uk
Sample search: roman
HISTORY is a relatively old service, redesigned to take account of extra content and functionality. The ROADS component consists of a searchable database of nearly 1000 resources, most of which are based on the same host server as the HISTORY service. Special attention has been paid to the keyword field for each catalogued item, using an in-house historical categorisation system.
JIME - The Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Main contact: Dr. Simon Buckingham Shum -- sbs@acm.org
Sample search: interface
URL: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk
ROADS provides a search engine for articles in this ejournal published by the Open University.
Main contact: Tracey Stanley -- t.s.stanley@leeds.ac.uk
Sample search: chemistry
URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/laser/
LeedsLASER (Library Access to Selected Electronic Resources) is aimed at Leeds University students and staff, and covers a selection of electronic information resources - including databases, web pages, search tools and electronic journals. It aims to provide access to some of the key information sources available electronically, but it doesn't claim to be comprehensive.
nadir-links@mail.nadir.org
Sample search: revolution
NADIR is a German-based magazine and information centre for resources concerned with left-wing social and political activities. All of the site is in German. Interestingly, some of the resources are catalogued in more than one language (by simply putting both resource description language variations in the same field).
Main contact: Adrian Price -- ap@kvl.dk
Sample search: pollution
URL: http://novagate.nova-university.org/
A gateway to quality-assessed Internet resources in the fields of forestry, veterinary, agricultural, food and environmental sciences. The database is produced and maintained by the libraries of the NOVA University, whose constituent members come from a number of countries in Scandinavia. The gateway is made of the NOVA libraries of 5 nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Finnish part of NOVAGate is also a member of the Finnish Virtual Library project.
OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information
Main contact: Lisa Gray -- Lisa.Gray@nottingham.ac.uk
Sample search: biomechanics
OMNI, Organising Medical Networked Information, covers the areas of medicine, biomedicine, allied health, health management and related topics. The service also provides training materials and workshops. Browsing can be done via either alphabetical topics, classified topics, or via MeSH headings. In addition, OMNI provides a range of biomedical value-added services, including a MEDLINE review section, mirrors of key NHS IT strategy documents, and the UK CME database.
Main contact: Sarah Ashton -- port@nmm.ac.uk
Sample search: containers
URL: http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/
Port is the National Maritime Museum's online catalogue of high quality maritime related Internet resources. Every resource has been selected and described by a librarian or subject specialist. Services and materials developed by the Museum's Centre for Maritime Research are also available on this site.
ROUTES - Resources for Open University Teachers and Students
Main contact: Una O'Sullivan -- u.osullivan@open.ac.uk
Sample search: aerospace
URL: http://oulib1.open.ac.uk/ROADS/homepage.html
ROUTES, which collects, manages and evaluates Internet resources for OU courses, forms part of the Open University Library's strategy for supporting access to materials by students. Developed as part of the Network Access Project, ROUTES is building up a collection of Internet resources selected to support OU courses. A key feature of the service is that subject specialist librarians, academic staff and OU students are all involved in the selection and evaluation procedure. ROUTES describes and classifies these resources, and allows users to search the database across a wide range of fields, including a Course-Identifier field. This work is being done with reference to current metadata research and development.
SOSIG - The Social Science Information Gatewway
Main contact: Debra Hiom -- d.hiom@bris.ac.uk
Sample search: gender and management
SOSIG can help you locate high quality sites on the Internet, which are relevant to social science education and research. The Internet Catalogue offers access to thousands of high quality Internet resources, each selected and described by academic librarians and subject specialists. The SOSIG service receives funding from the ESRC, JISC and the European Union.
Waste Water Engineering Virtual Library
Main contact: Dr. Joseph D. Edwards -- cleanh2o@cleanh2o.com
Sample search: pipes
URL: http://www.cleanh2o.com/cleanh2o/ww/welcome.html
This gateway is the section of the Virtual Library dedicated to Wastewater Engineering. The gateway consists of a top-level menu, with some options leading to categories of Internet-based resources, whilst others lead to the ROADS-based searchable catalogue, a HyperNews forum and a section for people to submit relevant resources. The ROADS-based section of the gateway allows people to search across a catalogue of around 300 WWE resources. The results generated by a search on this catalogue are presented in a tabular format; each result entry shows the categories for which the associated resource is applicable.
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Maintained by Paul Hollands