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SEARCH & RESEARCH -- Gateways

Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA,; Australia) 10 May 2008

ABYZ News Links Gateway to Newspapers, News Media, News Sources 5 September 2003

Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources 14 March 2003

ACER: Australia's gateway to educational research 29 September 2007

ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway 7 September 2001
searchable catalogue of 2546 Internet resources carefully selected & catalogued by professional librarians for UK Higher Education community.

Africa Portal online forum for researchers & opinion leaders to share insights & publish 29 November 2010
online library collectionof 2500+ books, journals, & digital documents related to African policy issues for free download;

AgeSource Worldwide 30 July 2005
AARP database of links to 300+ libraries, clearinghouses, databases, directories, bibliographies, Web metasites; AgeLine database of abstracts of social gerontology & aging-related articles, books, & reports;

AgNIC, Agriculture Network Information Center 9 March 2005
voluntary partnership bringing selected, quality agricultural information; Food, Agricultural, Environmental Information & Resources; browse by topic - entomology, plant science, rural & agricultural sociology; conference proceedings, plant & insect management; guides; calendar of events, news center;

Agrigate 26 February 2003
subject gateway to selected, high quality information resources for agriculture researchers in Australia (defunct)

AIATSIS(Australian Institute for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies) 10 May 2008
digitisation program to conserve deteriorating AV resources includes Protector of Aborigines reports from all states, Dawn & Mission magazines, state law & is now harvesting out of print materials (explorers, anthropologists, linguists journals) from Google Books; [Ara Iritcha?] interface in development for networking indigenous knowledge collections; AIATSIS – Native Title Research Unit - ATSI Index (ABI) imported into catalogue (MURA); ATSILIRN (ATSI Libray & Information Network); Office for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH); metadata for MURA to allow geospatial browsing based on 1:250000 map series;

All-in-One List of Search Engines(Pandia Powersearch) 7 April 2009

Alta Plana: International Economics Gateway: Resource Pages Resource pages & data archives 19 September 2001

Archives Hub national gateway to descriptions of archives in 180+ UK universities & colleges 11 January 2011
access by keyword, subject, title, name of person, place, or corporate entity, to primary source materials; Most not available online, but access information included in descriptions; Intwine, a subject guide to Collections of the Month mailing list; FAQ;

Archives of Australia gateway Australian & overseas English-speaking archives 21 November 2005

Archives Portal Europe(Beta) 20 March 2011
combined searches across national & regional materials, simple fulltext search for content precisely defined, advanced search concentrating on aspects of material such as dates of creation & use, browse to detect & explore contents; 3 search options (simple fulltext, advanced search & navigated search(browse) in combination or separately, depending on research needs; display results according to hierarchical structure of archival material itself or as a summarised list of hits;

artessimo.com 28 February 2004
Internet portal for people with book rights on offer & those interested in them to get in direct contact with each other.

Artifact – the arts & creative hub 23 February 2007
launched 10th November 2003 in London & Manchester; also available via Intute homepage;

Arts & Humananities Data Service & The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years On; 26 August 2006
archaeology, history, literary, linguistic & other textual studies, visual arts, & performing arts; Centres collect, preserve, catalogue, distribute digital resources relevant to their subject areas, facilitate good practice in their creation & use, & offer some user services;

Arts gateway(Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 31 October 2009
content from ABC Radio(Local Radio, Radio National, Classic FM) ABC News & Current Affairs, ABC Online, ABC Archives & ABC TV; Links to publications, arts companies & venues, galleries & museums, arts festivals, awards & prizes, arts organisations;

Asia Portal: Newsroom, Insights, Services directory, Academic resources 31 July 2010

ATLIS 28 March 2003
hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism subject oriented tools from UK's Resource Discovery Network;

ATSILIRN (ATSI Libray & Information Network) 10 May 2008

AusStage gateway to Australian performing arts 17 January 2003

Australian Academic & Research Library Network 18 December 2007
consortium of Australian University Libraries formed to provide a collaborative research information infrastructure;

Australian Agriculture & Natural Resources Online (AANRO) 24August 2002
Australian government agencies & database designers Infoscan Pty Ltd; broad range of topics; blue green algae, genetically modified organisms, mining; 6 data- bases; search, browse citations & abstracts for current published works; free access to databases RRIP (Rural Research in Progress), Streamline & ABOA (Australian Bibliography of Agriculture); (update, 13 April 2005) free database of bibliographic & research info on Australian agriculture & natural resource management; Gateway to Land & Water Research Portfolio, Live Export R&D Database, Goat Industry Research Database, Dairy Australia Research in Progress, Land & Water Innovation Database, Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC) Publications

Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society (AARES) 17 April 2008
AgEcon Search (after 10 May 2008) free, open access repository of fulltext scholarly literature in agricultural & applied economics, including: Working papers, Conference papers, Journal articles; Links: Resource & Environmental Economics Associations & Societies, Departments, Research Centres & Institutes worldwide;

Australian & international booktrade resources 21 September 2009

Australian Development Gateway 7 April 2005
portal to social & economic development thro Asia-Pacific; 50 country gateways being established for World Bank; knowledge sharing - agriculture, education, governance, health, IT & water development professionals exchange; interactive features include directories of organisations & individuals, listings of business opportunities, development discussion forums, & directory of aid projects & programs; free resources - studies, reports, toolkits & publications

Australian Development Gateway: Australian Agriculture Portals & Databases 26 February 2003

Australian Environment Portal 31 December 2006

Australian Government Portal links to 700 Australian govt web sites; 1m pages indexed 11 November 2004

Australian Government Space Portal 29 June 2010
information on Australian Government's space-related activities & Australian space sector, links to space-related research organisations, events & international partners;

AutoMotoPortal.com 22 December 2007
latest automotive news from all over the world; US, European & Asian markets; articles from 53 different car manufacturers;

Best history websites 21 June 2002
portal for students, history educators, general history enthusiasts; sites, rated for usefulness & accuracy

BFI Film Links Gateway 1 December 2007

BiblioVault Scholars' Portal 24 December 2004
scholarly presses' older, recent, new books; fulltext searches of collection; quick search by book element - fulltext, title, author, copyright year, ISBN - enter a word/phrase; book title links, publisher's home page, order book; browse collection by title, author, publisher

Biodiversity Heritage Library(Internet Archive) 13 April 2008

Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) digitised natural history literature 21 April 2012
BHL-Europe has developed a multilingual & multifunctional portal that will be launched this spring, also be available through Europeana portal & via existing Biodiversity Heritage Libraries (e.g. BHL-Australia, a component of Atlas of Living Australia)

Biodiversity Hub(Plos One) 16 July 2011
Public Library of Science(Plos) Hubs: Biodiversity provides 2 main functions to connect researchers with relevant content. First, open-access articles on broad theme of biodiversity are selected & imported. In time, content will also be enhanced so that the articles are connected with data, & provide features to make articles easier for people to use. These two functions - aggregation & adding value - build on the concept of open access, which removes all the barriers to access & reuse of journal article content;

BioethicsWeb 30 August 2003
gateway to Internet resources for biomedical ethics developed by Wellcome Library & BIOME

Biogate gateway to evaluated resources in biological sciences 2 May 2002

BioMedNet life sciences portal 6 October 2003
gateways AgBio; Drug Discovery; Genetics; Biotechnology; Ecology, Evolution & Environment; Infectious Diseases; Cell Biology; Endocrinilogy; Molecular Biology; Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience; Pharmacology

BioPortal (Canadian government) 19 April 2008
clearinghouse for biotechnology in general & governmental strategies to encourage development; 5 sections: BioGateway, BioBasics, BioStrategy, BioRegulations, & BioGov; applications in the environment, food production, & sustainable development. email updates;

BioWizard 24 October 2006
free-of-charge research portal designed by scientists for life science community; LabWizard, Product directory, Forums & Blogs, News & Events;

BRINT, The Knowledge Creating Company^tm 5 July 2008
world's gateway to contemporary business technology management, knowledge management research & practices; Magazines & newspapers; global community forums & online events calendar;

British Academy PORTAL directory of online resources in humanities & social sciences 28 Aug 2007

Canadiana Discovery Portal & Canadiana Metadata Repository(CMR) schema 18 January 2011
60m+ pages of information from 30 Canadian library, museum & archive collections; books, journals, newspapers, government documents, photographs, maps, post cards, sheet music, audio & video broadcasts;

ChemSpy.com 2 September 2006
portal for chemical searching & chemical databases for scientists, engineers, students interested in finding chemical industry information; free;

Climate Change Data Portal & Other Tools(World Bank) 30 July 2009

Clinical Trials Portal(IFPMA) International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturs & Associations 3 October 2005
Clinical trials get under scrutiny: how medical information should be made publicly aAvailable; See also PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials collects PLoS journal articles on clinical trials for researchers to share views & build a dynamic, interactive community;

Collections Australia Network: CAN 2 July 2005
public gateway to collecting institutions across Australia including small to medium regional institutions.

Communication & Information in Knowledge Society: a gateway 14 February 2002
120 bibliographic, referral(directories, projects, etc.) & factual databases from UNESCO; 57 on-& off-line information services of UNESCO HQ & field offices organized by categories - education, science, culture,communication & information; of UNESCO documents databases, UNESCO photo bank, UNESCO glossaries & thesauri; Libraries Portal, Archives Portal, Portal of International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) & World Poetry Directory

Concept of the Portal (Ariadne Issue 30; Dec 2001/Jan 2002) 10 February 2002
Paul Miller's personal view of national & institutional information portal developments;

Cornucopia : Discovering UK Collections 23 April 2002
developed by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries; complete picture of UK museum collections

Culture24 (UK; previously the 24 Hour Museum) 19 February 2009
not-for-profit online publisher promotes & supports cultural sector online & serves online audiences across arts, heritage, education, & tourism sectors; UK museums, galleries, archives & libraries, all in one place

Culture & Recreation Portal! (now called Culture Portal, Australia) will close from 1 July 2010 13 January 2002
1900+ websites and 850000+ pages; by category or location. Event finder; discussion lists; Grants & Services Finder & Training Course Finder; OzIndigenous search of online Indigenous collections uses OpenSearch protocol for parallel searches of agencies including National Film & Sound Archive, Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Studies, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Northern Territory Library, State Library of Queensland, Libraries Australia, Picture Australia & Collections Australia Network; The Culture Portal will close from 1 July 2010 as part of Mid-year Economic & Fiscal Outlook 2009-10 announced on 2 November 2009. Enquiries regarding this closure process should be addressed through the Comments and Feedback page, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts; Culture Portal website is being archived by National Library of Australia, & will be available as a permanent static resource through PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive, at http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/21007 & will not be updated; links to external sites may become inactive & Bluey Search functionality will not work(seedlist of websites administration data base will be available through Australian Government Information Management Office(AGIMO) in CSV format for public use from 1 July at www.culture.gov.au/websites/seedlist.csv);

Culture Grid: UK collections online 18 August 2010
1m+ objects from museums, galleries, libraries & archives across the UK; feedingt to mainstream media partners such as Google, Flickr, BBC, Wikipedia to increase profile, enable more people to access it & generate potential financial gain through image buying services;

Culture Online: Made in Canada 30 December 2006

Data Australia(beta) portal of open Australian government datasets See also Mashup Australia 3 October 2009

Data.gov US Federal Government datasets See also National Data Catalog 25 May 2009
increases ability of public to find, download, & use datasets generated & held by US Federal Government; provides descriptions of Federal datasets(metadata); Federal, Executive Branch data included in first version; descriptions, how to access, leveraging tools; Search raw data catalog by category or federal agency to get machine-readable, platform-independent data sets; links to tools for mining data sets & a tutorial; See We need publishing standards for datasets & data tables;

Development Gateway® portal 8 May 2007
international nonprofit organization with mission to reduce poverty & enable change in developing nations through information technology; provides Web-based platforms to make aid & development efforts more effective around world: Effective government – enabling better aid management & coordination, more efficient & transparent government procurement; Knowledge sharing & collaboration – leveraging Internet for online communications among development practitioners world- wide; Local partner programs – connecting developing country organizations & helping empower them to use ICT to scale up local development efforts;

Digital Universe (pilot test release) 13 March 2006
network of interlinked web portals aims to be largest reliable public information resource in history; UniNav visual directory navigation system; organise best of Web, through Activities such as Explore, & soon, Communicate, Watch, Blog, & Play;

Digitised Pacific resources: global collections 5 August 2009
gateway to collections of digitised documentary materials relating to history, culture & people of Pacific region including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia & New Zealand; See also Pacific resources;

Directgov UK public services portal 1 April 2006

DOE Green Energy portal (US Department of Energy) 13 May 2010

Dr Euro European Search Gateway listings by country & city 29 May 2005

DRIVER Search Portal: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research 24 September 2009
1m Open Access scientific documents from 200+ European repositories in 29 European countries; See also European Portal on Research Infrastructures Database for Research Infrastructures(RIs) of pan European interest in science: facilities, resources & related services used by the scientific community to conduct top-level research;

Dr Seek: search gateway 29 May 2005

Drug information portal (NLM) 12000+drugs 5 April 2009

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (World Resources Institute) 27 July 2001
databases, data tables, country profiles, maps, feature articles; Coastal & Marine Ecosystems, Climate; Atmosphere, Agriculture; Food; Forests; Grasslands,etc

Eco5.com portal for business & economics 29 November 2004
free web service in finance & economics worldwide developed in cooperation with researchers from leading banks, consulting companies, universities; 5000+
resources(some priced) in 8 categories: links to national institutions - central banks, stock exchanges & government bodies in 85 countries; access annual reports of companies in important stock indices; research databases; links to national & international institutions; links to world's leading English language news sources

ECOLEX: gateway to environmental law 22 February 2004
UN(FAO), International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources(IUCN)& UN Environment Programme(UNEP)…environmental law - treaties, international soft-law, non-binding policy& technical guidance, national legislation, judicial decisions;

Eco-Portal: Environmental Sustainability Information Source 7 September 2002
information gateway empowering movement for environmental sustainability; World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg news & commentary about proceedings; search engine for information about environmental concerns; links to related organizations.

EdNA - OnLine: School Education Education Network Australia's gateway 20 March 2004

eFluids web portal 23 July 2011
1-stop resource for areas of flow engineering, fluid mechanics research, education; primary editors include professors from Arizona State U, Tufts U, & U of California, Santa Barbara; Who's Who in Fluid Mechanics; Publications contains listings of most important journals in field; gallery of flow videos & images; Gallery of Experiments features 23 experiments that address viscous flows & static equilibrium; section on bicycle aerodynamics;

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts 9 February 2007

Electronic Plant Information Centre(ePIC) 25 January 2003
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's(ePIC) gateway to digitized plant information; major specimen, bibliographic, taxonomic databases; enter scientific plant name & ePIC retrieves record & links to related resources from external organizations; download as email message

Emerson Kent.com: History for the relaxed historian 7 July 2010
People in history; Wars battles & revolutions; History Maps by Year; History Maps by Continent; History dictionary; Archaeological records; History Research Hub: Connect with historians & researchers; Timelines; Famous speeches;

Enrich.UK 14 March 2003
culture, history & community resources of museums, archives, libraries & galleries in England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland; 150 websites - national centres of excellence, regional 'sense of place', voluntary & community organisations & small local museums;

ENSYS Engineering Portal 10 June 2006

Entrepreneurship Research Portal(Kauffman Foundation) 15 June 2006
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, asset base of approximately $2b; annotated directory links to working papers, conference papers, journal articles, reports; mostly freely accessible fulltext but some items require subscription or payment;

Environmental Indicators Gateway 31July 2010

E-Print Network [pdf, postscript, dvi, zip] (US Department of Energy) 24 February 2004
explore online papers. Browse by subject, find scientific societies…primarily physics-related documents but also chemistry, material sciences, & nuclear sciences; See also Intute Repository Search across 89 UK academic eprint repositories;

ePSIGate(ePSINet, European Public Sector Information Network) 3 December 2006
knowledge-sharing, alerting & advisory service for European Public Sector Information stakeholders - public administrators, commercial users, end-user representatives

eqentia personal news portal 28 May 2011
using Twitter, Google Reader, 70 channels created by eqentia, & news searches; add annotations & republish; Private or public, powerful filters, add & share any web page; Monitor Twitter & sync to Twitter Favorites or Google Reader. Curate like a professional;

Europa: European Union portal 21 March 2007
up-to-date coverage & essential information on European integration; legislation in force or under discussion; website of each EU institution, policies administered by EU under powers devolved to it by Treaties; See Finding Facts: The European Union after 50 Years;

Europeana 28 March 2008
portal for digitised resources from Europe's archives, museums, libraries & audio visual collections; Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos & pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries & archival papers; Sounds - music & spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs & radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels & TV broadcasts; 3 May 2010: CARARE project will provide access to to 2m images, maps, plans & 3D models of Europe's archaeological & architectural sites created by national heritage agencies from 20 European countries listing: name of structure; period/dates/; history; current condition; aerial photographs or surveyor's plans of site footprint & surrounding area; 3D virtual reconstructions of UNESCO World Heritage sites; New content;

European gateways 29 May 2003
European Film Gateway - ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) - direct access to 790000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, sound material & documents; 7 Aug 2011: portal to digital collections of European film archives & cinémathèques offers free access to 400000 digital videos, photos, film posters & text materials. By September, the number of digital items will increase to 600000 from 16 film archives; film historical documents preserved in European film archives & cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature & documentary films, newsreels & other materials about filmmaking in Europe from the early days;

European Library portal to resources(books, magazines, journals; digital & non-digital) 4 December 2005
4.6m+ items from 100+institutions including National Archives of Finland, European Archive, Louvre, Slovak National Gallery; notable European figures,Timeline navigator; free searching; some free digital objects;

European Research Gateways Online(ERGO) 29 August 2006
service withdrawn but check links to other CORDIS (Community Research & Development Information Service) related services; See also FUMSI(find, use, manage & share information) Report: European Research Resources;

EUscreen showcase of Europe’s television heritage 27 October 2011
videos, stills, texts & audio from European broadcasters & audiovisual archives since 1900; standardised access to 30000+ items of programme content & complementary contextual information;

Family history portal(BBC) 29 March 2008

Food Science Central 9 March 2005
gateway to free & subscription based information relating to world of food science, food technology & food-related human nutrition

FreePint Portal FreePint Newsletter index (1997-2007) 28 August 2007
21 Mar 2012: recently introduced categories of content, designed to help readers quickly identify & access FreePint Family articles; Articles from across our sites & publications; Browse by category; Search across FreePint Family of sites & publications;

Ftpsearchengines.com: A file finding portal 23 October 2003

Garden Web 8 January 2005

Gateway(for visually impaired) 27 June 2006
UK public libraries' services across sectors relevant to individual visually impaired person; information, advice, links to resources & sharing of best practice; initiative of Share The Vision & Society of Chief Librarians, Funded by Ulverscroft Foundation;

Gateway to 21st Century Skills 13 December 2010
open access digital library of teaching & learning resources correlated to state & national curriculum standards is sponsored by National Education Association(NEA) & provided at no cost to teachers & educators worldwide;

Gateway to African American History 10 February 2002
created to introduce African-American history to people outside US; Key Sites on African-American Art & Literature, resources on Little Rock, the Amistad;

Gateway to Educational Materials(GEM) 10 April 2002
consortium of education information providers & users as well as metadata tools & standards; look at metadata for building education digital libraries; free, metasearch engine - educators(& parents) search for lesson plans by grade level; lesson plans, instructional units & educational materials in all forms, formats ; 42450 resources indexed by subject, grade level, pedagogy, audience; faceted searching for specific words/ phrases with browsing descriptions of resources based on facets(metadata elements or properties);

Gateway to Library Catalogs,(Z39.50) 16 February 2011
Library of Congress Page for gateway access to LC's catalog & those at many other institutions; Where applicable, the software vendor for the target Z39.50 implementation is given in parentheses after the name of the institution;

Gateway Tools(Center for Technology in Government) 22 February 2004
guidance to government agencies on creating effective, manageable, affordable, electronic information access

Gateway to Scientific Data(NRC-CISTI; Canada) 25 July 2009
access to scientific research data for Canadians; supports use & re-use of data sets by providing a central gateway, as well as resources to guide data management activities;

Gateway to US Government Science & Technology Resources 16 July 2002
US Department of Commerce, National Technical & Information Service(NTIS); full search, science for citizens search(general interest), search just Federal laboratories; annotated directory of 700 scitech resources on US government sites. Browse agency, search subject, agency, resource type(bibliographic databases, computer software, current research, laboratories, maps, photographs, research & development, publications, satellite data); electronic delivery of reports dating to 1997. Reports 20- pages free, 20+ pages $8.95(PDF);

GEO Data Portal 27 July 2003
authoritative source for data sets used by UN Environment Network & partners; 400+ variables such as national, subregional, regional & global statistics, as geo- spatial data sets; search keywords, browse region or thematic categories, including Climate Change, Freshwater, Mountains, Socioeconomic information; free access; view & create maps, graphs & data tables & download data in different formats free of charge.

GeoExplorer - Geography Portal 30 April 2002
guide to Geography on the web. Geo Explorer aims to meet all your geographical needs; students & teachers of geography

GeoLib (apply marketing solutions to library problems) 3 November 2006
portal to easy-to-use digital geographic information for researchers, librarians, geographic information system (GIS) specialists & general public;

Geoscience Portal & Australian Spatial Data Directory 26 February 2004

GEsource Geography & Environment Gateway 31 October 2003
core database of high-quality Internet resources catalogued by subject specialists; links to databases(free & subscription), reference sources, timelines, career information, training materials;

Geospatial One Stop(GOS)’s web portal 16 November 2007
Select searchable holdings from National Archives & Library of Congress's GOS Historical Collections Channel; federal, state & local US data including administrative & political boundaries, environmental information, ocean & coast maps, data files;

Getty Search Gateway: collections, databases, library catalogs, inventories, archival finding aids 15 May 2012
J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Database records for Greek, Etruscan, & Roman antiquities; European paintings, drawings, sculpture, & decorative arts from Middle Ages to end of C19; medieval &d Renaissance illuminated manuscripts; photographs from C19 to present; Getty Research Institute Research Library Catalog records for 1m+ volumes of books, periodicals, & auction catalogs, special collections of rare books, prints & drawings, photographs & optical devices, archives & manuscripts. The literature of art history, methods & materials of artistic production, & conservation are core areas of holdings in classical antiquities, medieval & Renaissance art, sculpture & decorative arts, prints, drawings, & photography; Getty Research Institute Collections Inventories & Finding Aids guides to contents of selected rare & unique materials from C15 to present; records for rare books, single prints & drawings in albums & collections, rare photographs, manuscripts & archives, optical devices, & C20 multiples &d videos; Getty Research Institute Digital Collections free to view & download. Materials include 2.5m+ digital images of rare & public domain books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, sketchbooks, & archives; aggregates descriptive metadata of digitized art history texts, with links to fully digitized copies free to download; Search Tools & Databases include Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names(TGN), Art & Architecture Thesaurus(AAT), Union List of Artist Names(ULAN), Cultural Objects Name Authority(CONA);

GIgateway 6 January 2005
free web service increasing awareness of & access to geospatial information in UK. See also GIS jumpstation & GISPortal.com;

Gilbert & Sullivan Archive 18 December 2005
G&S portal: individual works, performing groups, articles, discussions, discography; other light opera too;

Global Ethics Observatory(UNESCO) 7 February 2006
worldwide ethics portal; direct, free access of 4 databases covering fields of bioethics, environmental ethics, science ethics & technology ethics;

Global Gateway(Library of Congress) 27 August 2004
electronic resources on nations of world selected by Library of Congress subject experts; research guides & databases on country studies & legal info;

Global Open Access Portal(GOAP) UNESCO 12 November 2011
presents a snapshot of the status of Open Acces (OA) to scientific information worldwide; country reports from 148+ countries with weblinks to 2000+ initiatives/projects in Member States;

gov.uk beta test site will replace Directgov UK public services portal 4 Feb 2012

Green Maven gateway to the Green Web 12 April 2008

Gurteen Knowlege Community 27 February 2002
work, manage & interact with others to better leverage workgroup technology; gateway to business & spiritually oriented topics - Knowledge Management, Learning, Thinking, Creativity, Personal Mastery, Personal Knowledge Management, Effective Use of Technology.

Health Portal for the EU 4 March 2007
easy access to comprehensive information on Public Health initiatives & programmes at EU level;

HEARTH 29 July 2003
core books & journals in Home Economics published, 1850 - 1950; fulltext, bibliographies & essays

Historical Newspapers Online 28 May 2010
Links to historical US newspapers available online at no cost listed by state with dates of coverage for each paper; See ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers for digisations of historic international papers;

Improvement & Development Gateway(Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA), UK) 12 January 2007
created for local councils to learn about initiatives & policy movements; browse recent white papers & case studies; glossary;

Indigenous Portal(Australian Government) 13 June 2009

Infectious Diseases Gateway BioMedNet(BMN) 6 October 2003
expert selected content from leading publications in infectious diseases; research articles, reviews, etc. from Elsevier journals & books free on registration; special supplement to upcoming Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy

Information Bridge: DOE's Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI) 14 May 2009
free public access to 200000+ fulltext documents & bibliographic citations of Department of Energy(DOE) research report literature primarily from 1991 forward produced by DOE, their contractor community, &/or DOE grantees; Legacy documents added when available in electronic format; documents & citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer & information science, renewable energy;

Intelways one-stop online search service 29 November 2008
comprehensive set of search channels organized into different categories; find web content in different formats & media types for multiple interests & topics, by retrieving results from multiple search engines & online providers;

Intute(UK) best Web resources for education & research; free access 26 August 2006
created by a network of UK universities & partners; subject specialists select & evaluate websites, write high quality descriptions of resources; 113495 records; Intute’s funding has been cut; after August 2010 service will remain available with “minimal maintenance”;

Invisible Web Gateways & Directories - Hidden Searchable Sites 28 October 2001
access parts of Web invisible to general purpose search engines like AltaVista, Lycos & Google;

Io-port (English)(FIZ Karlsruhe) 22 September 2006
informatics portal; 2m+ computer science publications from worldwide informatics databases Compuscience(FIZ Karlsruhe), DBLP (Computer Science Bibliography, U of Trier), LEABiB (bibliographical database produced by Chair for Efficient Algorithms of TU Munich) & CCSB (Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies of University of Karlsruhe); exclusive access to Lecture Notes in Informatics series from Gesellschaft für Informatik; semantic search tools; personalised services(email alert; personal publication lists, etc); informatics lexicon(in German); Digital Bibliographical Library(DBL) Browser (locally installed graphical tool), Recommender(compare & evaluate content, sort results in predefined document context according to relevance to user) & Document Management System (Administer locally stored documents & URLs, add comments, define relationships), Query Refinement tool & Similar Titles; free basic searches, professional retrieval, use of semantic tools & access to fulltext at cost; Links to external fulltext, services from publishing houses, open access servers;

IP Advantage(WIPO) database 27 September 2010
fully searchable one-stop gateway to case study material available on WIPO’s website; experiences of inventors, creators, entrepreneurs, & researchers from 48 countries; searches by type of IP, object of protection(inventions, commercial names, artistic works) &/or focus of case study(branding, IP management, R&D, etc);

Judaica Europeana integrated access point launched in 2010 to digitize European Jewish collections 5 May 2012
Judaica Europeana brings online 3.7m digital objects from Jewish collections via Europeana; network led by European Association for Jewish Culture & Frankfurt University Library; co-funded by European Commission, Rothschild Foundation(Hanadiv) Europe & project partners including 25 institutions in Europe, Israel & US;

Kngine Stats statistical platform/portal 28 April 2010
collectuing, organizing & indexing 65m records of statistical data from resources such as: UN, World bank, CIA Factbook, a stand alone Application soon to empower Kngine; users to add statistics & perform advanced operations;

Language portal: a translation & interpretation digital library 8 January 2012
US state & local agency documents services to Limited English Proficient clients, including contracts, planning reports, & translated material; crossroads for elected officials, grassroots & nonprofit leaders, educators, journalists, researchers, local service providers, state & local agency managers; policy focused research, policy design, leadership development, technical assistance & training for government officials & community leaders, electronic resource center on immigrant integration issues with focus on state & local policies & data;

LC gateway to library catalogs 21 December 2007

LC's Portal specifications 2 October 2003
Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group(LCPAIG) is creating a List of Portal Application Functionalities for Library of Congress(July 2003).

Liber8 economic information portal for librarians & students 24 June 2006

Linked Open Copac Archives Hub(LOCAH) Project test datasets 14 May 2011
project on modelling complex archival data & transforming into RDF Linked Data, available in a variety of forms via data.archiveshub.ac.uk home page; working on visualisation prototype showing how to link Hub Data with Linked Data sources on Web using enhanced dataset to provide a useful graphical resource for researchers;

LISWiki 11 July 2005
open, collaborative environment for community repository of library terms, issues, practices; niche encyclopedia of library-related issues; Other Library Wikis

LivRe: Portal to Free Access Journals on Internet 12 August 2006
Directory of 2500+ free access electronic journals listed by subject; physical sciences, biological sciences, humanities;

Management & Business Studies Portal 20 December 2010
British Library, in association with British Academy of Management(BAM) & Chartered Management Institute(CMI) collection of digital & print material for UK management research & practice; fulltext research reports, summaries, working papers & videos; access full text journal articles via a professional body library like CMI or orderfrom British Library Document Supply service;

Mapsarea portal of world maps & atlases 31 May 2003
keyword search; earth & moon viewer; map companies, map magazines & forums, list of historical map resources;

Market Research Portal 15 July 2005
for market research companies, researchers, market research buyers; articles by industry professionals; Market Research Explained: qualitative research, quantitative research & statistics; Glossary of Terms; Industry News & Events from around the globe

Materials Information Gateway(nonprofit Materials Research Society) 16 January 2005
promote interdisciplinary goal-oriented research on materials of technological importance; links articles from Internet publishers on advances & applications in nanoscience, smart textiles; advanced materials used in everyday life - cell phones to cameras, duct tape to dinner plates & canoes to kayaks

Math Gateway of the Mathematical Association of America 26 April 2008

MedEdPORTAL (Association of American Medical Colleges) 25 April 2009
free resources on medical & dental education; peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts, assessment tools, etc; Featured Collections,Partner Collections, & Featured Publications; Browse Collections & Browse Publications(Browse by Discipline or Hot Topics);

MedHist (Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, Wellcome Trust ) 6 September 2002
evaluated, quality Internet resources covering all aspects of history of health & development of medical knowledge for students & staff working within further & higher education sectors; affiliated to BIOME life sciences hub & Resource Discovery Network (RDN)

Medicexchange portal for radiologists & medical imaging professionals 9 December 2008
latest medical imaging news, educational resources & jobs, multi-vendor online sales channel for medical imaging products;

MedNets: medical search engine & portal 2 February 2006
4 search engines - MEDetective:find information on word/phrase; meta-search engine uses up to 32 specialty search engines; MedNets Site, Healthcare Information Site; National Institute of Health(NIH)Guidelines for medical practice guidelines; National Library of Medicine(NLM) Medline/PubMed for biotechnology information from PubMed or regarding Protein, Nucleotide, Structure, Genome, PopSet or OMIM;

Megasources: Version 2012 (January 2012) online since 1994 9 April 2012

MerckMedicus(US only) 31 January 2007
advertising-free medical portal for today's healthcare professional combines breaking medical news, a wide variety of online learning resources, cutting-edge diagnostic tools, & a patient's perspective; Leading medical textbooks for 20 specialties;

MetaLib: federated search portal from GPO (Government Printing Office) review 17 October 2010
Databases Used with Basic Search: AGRICOLA Books, Access to Archival Databases(AAD) System - NARA, AUL Index to Military Periodicals, Catalog of US Government Publications(CGP), Education Resources Information Center(ERIC), Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) Catalog Search, Library of Congress(LOC), PubMed, USA.gov; Create sets of searchable database collections using A-Z Resource List; Access & search interface of database from originating institution/agency; Save configurations & resources to your "E-shelf", a personalized collection manager based on your browser session; Email &/or save records in various formats (e.g., MARC21, Standard, ProCite) & encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, ASCII);

Meta Links: Resource Lists, Subject Trees, and Virtual Libraries 28 August 2007

Meta Matters | Subject gateways 30 August 2001
subject access to Australian resources on World Wide Web whose caretakers have applied management practices to meet standard criteria.

MIC: Moving Image Collections portal Union catalog of moving images 13 March 2004
Searchable directory of organizations; Portals for archivists, educators,; Resources about moving images; information about services & access

Monetos UK multingual international finance portal 25 July 2009
independent instruction & research on Europe's private financial sector enables comparisons between social systems, explores different financial sectors & provides detailed information financial products; aim to simplify & promote international movement with multilingual guides to integration in Europe, covering topics such as renting a property, opening a bank account & visiting a doctor;

Mosaica: semantically enhanced multifaceted collaborative access to Cultural Heritage 20 March 2009
technological platform that supports the creation of Semantic Portals to Cultural Heritage; Mosaica Demonstrator: Web Portal for Jewish Cultural Heritage; Video demonstration;

Moving Image Gateway(MIG) 2 September 2006
websites that relate to moving images & sound & their use in higher & further education. From BUFVC; 600+ sites & growing;

MuseumSpot.com: Museums, aquariums, zoos, art museums, national parks 30 August 2001
search graphic databases of art, shop gift sites, send art e-mail;

National Institute of Standards & Technology(NIST) Data Gateway 18 May 2003
substances & properties from scientific disciplines; search by keyword, property, or substance name within NIST databases; Atomic Weights & Isotopic Compositions & Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Structure Index; links

NativeWeb 1 July 2006
indigenous nations, peoples, organizations around world; clearinghouse for materials ranging from ongoing archaeological excavations to higher education grants for organizations that serve indigenous peoples; Resources links to high-quality online materials; email updates

Neuroscience Database Gateway(Society for Neuroscience) 22 November 2005
databases of experimental data, knowledge bases, software tools for neuroscience, bioinformatics resources & providers of research materials;

Neuroscience Gateway - Free Access 11 May 2006
cutting edge neuroscience & genomics research from Allen Institute for Brain Science & Nature integrates research across broad spectrum of neuroscience, includes key articles, library of recent papers & latest neuroscience news; Allen Brain Atlas - free maps of expression of approximately 20000 genes in mouse brain.

news search portal 27 August 2006
news search & metasearch engines grouped by country, language, medium, newsgroup

NLM(National Library of Medicine) Gateway 9 January 2003
access to databases including MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, DIRLINE. Results labeled by type of material e.g. search for orthopedic procedures identifies results from journal collections, Books/AV, consumer health, meeting abstracts; approved terms for search from MeSH & UMLS Metathesaurus; limit (e.g. English language citations only, results/page), store search strategies & result sets in virtual locker, register for free

NSDL: National Science Digital Library 29 April 2005
online library for science, technology, engineering, mathematics education & research; exemplary collections & services supporting science education at all levels

Observatory of Information Society: An International Gateway 8 December 2003
UNESCO resources on development of Information Society; reports on digital divide, online governance, e-commerce, intellectual property rights, infostructure, virtual libraries; browse by region, country, thematic topic; frequently updated newsn, recently released studies

Official Website Locator for United Nations System of Organizations 14 June 2004
UN web sites portal: funds, programmes, specialized agencies, key projects, initiatives & joint programmes; Browse alphabetically & by subject(Thematic Index)

Omniglot
portal listing language & translation-related resources; access online dictionaries & online translation & localisation tools, many of which offer some free use; .

Open Data Portal Pilot part of Government of Canada's commitment to open government 29 March 2011
3 streams: open data, open information & open dialogue, aims to drive innovation & economic opportunities for all Canadians; seeks to improve ability of public to find, download & use Government of Canada data; search catalogue, download datasets & explore possibilities of Open Data; for both non-commercial & commercial use; formats should be machine-readable & typically XML-based;

Open Folklore portal(American Folklore Society/Indiana U Bloomington Libraries/IU Digital Library Program) 19 October 2010
57000 volumes at Bloomington scanned by Google Books & linked to Open Folklore, 2400 in full; links to Hathi Trust & other folklore collections;

Open J-Gate(Informatics(India) Ltd) 12 March 2006
electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain; seamless access to millions of journal articles, database of literature from 3000+ open access journals with links to full text at Publisher sites;

Organic Chemistry Portal 2 April 2005
searchable literature index, named reactions & protecting groups as well as a chemical database

Pandia Portal for online radio stations, podcasts & music streaming 18 April 2011

Pandia Powersearch all-in-one list of search engines & directories 15 February 2010
other options to Search for files, images, music & video; Search for online reference, dictionaries,books & more; Links to essential business & finance resources; Tools for specialized searching; Social search; Social news; Microblog search;

PANGAEA(Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) Open Access library 15 June 2010
data & associated material made available under Creative Commons Attribution license if not otherwise specified in description of dataset; Each dataset can be identified, shared, published & cited by Digital Object Identifier(DOI). Data are archived as supplements to publications or as citable data collections. Citations are available through the portal of the German National Library of Science & Technology(GetInfo); Partnership with Elsevier to link to ScienceDirect content from datasets & integrate NextBio's ontology-based semantic tools with ScienceDirect;

Patentscope: WIPO's gateway to patent services & activities; 10 April 2011

PBS Video Portal 23 April 2009
search & browse programs by PBS & its member stations; watch full episodes, search for clips & segments; upload video, comments & interact with the site;

PINAKES, A Subject Launchpad (Callimacus name for catalogue of Library of Alexandria) 2 September 2006
Agrigate, EdWeb & DutchESS are no longer maintained; Pinakes will drop some other subject gateways & add subject-based repositorie which are more useful;

Plant List Database Vol.1: 1244871m scientific plant names, 298900 accepted species names 30 December 2010
Collaboration between Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden; library of plant names for conservationists, drug designers & agriculture researchers; 1.25m names for plants, ranging from essential food crops such as wheat, rice & corn to garden roses & exotic jungle ferns; links to published research; 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank, 298900 accepted species names; 620 plant families, 16167 plant genera; Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns & their allies) & Bryophytes (mosses & liverworts) but not algae or fungi; provides Accepted Latin name for most species, links to all Synonyms, & includes Unresolved names; Browse major plant groups to explore taxonomic hierarchy embedded within The Plant List: Angiosperms (Flowering plants); Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads & allies); Pteridophytes (Ferns & fern allies); Bryophytes (Mosses & liverworts); includes no vernacular or common plant names; See also Plants-Pedia comparison database of 50000 plant types allows plant-enthusiasts to find & compare plants based on factors including: common name, scientific name, category, duration, growth habit & sort & filter through thousands of plants, compare plants of interest in a side-by-side format, & check details of each plant;

podOmatic podcast portal 29 August 2006

Political Science Resources: Politics & Government around the world 25 April 2008
See also Political Science Resources: Foreign politics(non- US);

portal map - find your portal! 22 August 2001
selective directory to international Web Portals, Search Engines & Meta Sites

Portals to the World(Library of Congress) authoritative, in-depth information about nations & other areas of the world.

Portal to Public Records(BRB Publications) 14 September 2007
directory of free public record sites, reference material, & public record vendors available;

Price's List of Lists (major overhaul soon) 30 August 2001
clearinghouse for these types of resources. Many lists have been designed to be interactive/ searchable & provide greater utility than printed versions

Print News archives(JournalismNet) includes Historical Archives & Non-print Archives 9 September 2008

Propylaeum, the Virtual Library Classical Studies 15 March 2011
subject information across spectrum of Classical Studies disciplines: Egyptology, Ancient History, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Byzantine Studies, Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology, Medieval & Neo-Latin Philology, Pre- & Early- History;

Psigate: Physical Sciences information gateway 3 December 2002
free access to high quality Web resources in physical sciences; astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, materials sciences, physics, science history & policy

Psych Central mental health network created & run by mental health professionals 18 January 2009
Mental Health & Psychology Resources Online; Ask the Therapist; Medication Library; 140+support groups; Blog; Chat;

Public domain review: Guide to finding interesting public domain works online 27 January 2012
Films, Images, Texts, Audio; Public Domain Calculators project to put together simple tools to help residents in Europe determine if a work is in public domain in their particular jurisdiction. Stanford also have a good site to help determine public domain status of works in US (cf legal section in Guide);

Reconfiguring the Library Systems Environment(portal: Libraries & the Academy, V.8 No.2) April 2008

Repository of Primary Sources 6 August 2003
5000+ websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, other primary sources for research scholar;

Resource Discovery Network (RDN, became Intute in late 2006) 1 July 2001
co-operative network of Internet Resource Catalogues providing access to descriptions of resources selected for quality & accuracy by subject specialists throughout UK academic community; UK-based network of subject gateways; Intute: The New Best of the Web;

Resource Guide for Social Sciences 30 August 2001
Subject gateways; data services; datasets; data visualization; software services; focuses on resources funded by Joint Information Systems Committee(JISC) of Higher & Further Education Funding Councils of UK, & Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC).

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library Catalogue 21 December 2002
world botanical reference sources unrivalled in range, depth, authority; 1/2m+ items - books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters & manuscripts, periodicals, biographies & maps; 90+ languages; early books collection - Linnaeus & contemporaries, herbals & incunabula; illustrations & descriptions of early uses of plants C18 to C21 expeditions; papers of botanists, plant collectors & artists - Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Marianne North; botanical gateway; search other libraries from Catalogue; live connections to Library of Congress & Natural History Museum, London
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Science Accelerator federated search gateway(OSTI) 18 January 2009
searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, via resources from Office of Scientific & Technical Information(OSTI), US Department of Energy; DOE R&D Accomplishments, DOE R&D Project Summaries, DOepatents, E-print Network, Energy Citations Database, Energy Science & Technology Software Center, EnergyFiles, Federal R&D Project Summaries, Information Bridge, Science Conference Proceedings; featured search archive & RSS feed; list of searchable resources;

Science & Industry Portal 6 October 2001
science, industry & innovation information, services to industry, investors, business & research communities; 2 main sections - science-oriented resources & resources devoted to technology; directories & databases, policy, intellectual property); brief annotations

Science.Gov 5 December 2002
scitech information organizations from US science agencies(Department of Agriculture, D of Commerce, D of Defense, D of Education, D of Energy, D of Health & Human Services, D of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics & Space Admin, National Science Foundation); browsable subject directory & keyword metasearch engine; 25+ databases include ERIC, PubMed, Agricola; no advanced search syntax; gateway; browse categories- Agriculture & Food, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Science Education; annotation; keyword search; HTML, PDF documents; Science.gov 2.0 launched June 2004; no direct links to citations found via metasearch tool; Science.gov 3.0 MetaRank ranking science queries by search metadata, or bibliographic information such as title, author, date, abstract or keyword identifiers; complements relevancy ranking capabilities of QuickRank introduced in version 2.0 & still deployed; (25 March 2006) Science.gov 3.0 US government's federated searching & relevancy ranking of multiple government scientific databases; Sensitive but Unclassified Information & Other Controls: Policy & Options for Scientific & Technical Information [CRS Report for Congress]; government information is disappearing or not made public- See also Pseudo-Secrets: Freedom of Information Audit of US Government's Policies on Sensitive Unclassified Information; 4th edition reviewd by Peter Jacso - scitech government document repositories & other science databases of 12 US government agencies supported & maintained by CENDI inter- agency working group, with Explorit software(Deep Web Technologies); search filters focus search & layer search results by disciplinary areas (environment, health, etc.) ; results ranking; sort options by title, author, source & publication date. Date range search limiting;

Science Linkhouse 9 March 2005
multi subject gateway -culture, language & education to natural sciences; formerly Finnish Virtual Library initiated May 1996..connected to Renardus

Science Portal 5 October 2002
Australian government delivers science information & services to industry, investors, research community from Australia's research & research-related organization Web sites; search or browse by research topics including directories & databases, policy, research grants;

Science Research Portal 17 June 2005
free access to scientific journals & 53 databases from Science.gov, Scirus, E-Print Network, American Chemical Society, Annual Reviews, Highwire Press;

Science.world: global science gateway 28 February 2007
formed by US Department of Energy(DOE) & British Library to make science information resources of many nations accessible via a single internet portal;

SciTalks portal for Open Access(OA)videos about science 3 July 2007

Scitopia.org Search Portal free federated vertical search 29 November 2008
research most cited in scholarly work & patents; 3.5m+ items including peer-reviewed journal content & conference proceedings; Partners: American Geophysical Union(AGU), American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics(AIAA), American Institute of Physics(AIP), American Physical Society(APS), American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), The Electrochemical Society(ECS), IEEE Institute of Physics Publishing(IOP), Optical Society of America(OSA), SPIE, Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE), Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM); patents, government documents; 15 societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship; Electronic Resources Reviews;

SciVerse Hub 21 January 2012
advanced searches across SciVerse ScienceDirect & SciVerse Scopus & seamlessly across WorldWideScience.org content;

Searching the Internet Primer (Marcus Zillman's Virtual Private Library) 31 May 2009
Search Engines powered by bots searching for meta description & keywords; Indexes & Directories menu driven subject trees/directories; Intuitive Search; Custom Search & Deep Web Search;

SearchItAll.com 5 November 2006
searches Alexa.com, Alltheweb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask.com, Excite, Gigablast, Google, Hotbot, LookSmart, Lycos, Mamma, Metacrawler, Microsoft Live Search, Netscape Search, Open Directory, Search.com, Webcrawler, Wisenut, Yahoo; non-US user collections for web & computers, super reference..

Search Portals & Directories 18 May 2003

SearchScanner (formerly MrSapo) 24 July 2005
results delivered by 80 different search engines from one window; tabs choose media type - websites, news, images, audio, video or weblogs;

Semantic Universe Network joint venture of Wilshire Conferences, Semantic Arts & Cerebra 6 February 2009
educating the world about semantic technologies & applications; editorial contributors & industry bloggers, prominent industry analysts & commentators; technical articles, case studies & research from organizations including: Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Metatomix, Expert System, Ontos, Collibra, NetBase, IQser, General Electric; blogs, webcasts, slide decks, video recordings, executive interviews, audio recordings, company profiles, new product releases & vendor announcements;

Services SA gateway to South Australian government services & information 21 February 2009

Social Capital Gateway 3 June 2005
Social capital is set of trust, institutions, social norms, social networks, & organizations that shape interactions of actors within society & are an asset for individual & collective production of well-being. At macro level, social capital can affect economic performance & processes of economic growth & development.

Social networking portal(Wikipedia) 15 November 2010

Social Science Gateways on the Net 21 October 2002

SortByDate 11 November 2004
news portal for AllTheWeb News, Daypop News, Google News, Knight Ridder Washington, Topix.net, WorldNews.com

SOSIG the Social Science Information Gateway 29 October 2001

Subject Portals Project Alerting Portlet 24 August 2007

SurfIP Portal 24 February 2003
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore(IPOS); developed first IP Portal to offer users comprehensive, integrated IP; databases of European Patent Office(EPO), United Kingdom Patent Office(UKPO), United States Patent Office(USPTO), World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO); features:search multiple sources; integrated & aggregated searches; no obscure syntax & filenames; reduce search costs; translate search results with multilingual tools; simple/advanced/patent number searches; Search Directory of IP Professionals; new inventions, IP Events & highlights

Techmeme news portal 6 May 2009
Technology story selection via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input;

TechXtra 1 June 2006
free fulltext eprints, technical reports, theses, articles, news items, job announcements, links to vendors pay-per-view; Cross database searching(federated/ meta-search) 25 databases/4m+ records; Sources include: Australian Research Repositories Online to World, arXive (eprint archive in computer science, maths & related subjects), CiteSeer(research articles in computer science), Directory of Open Access Journals, ePrints UK(selected open archives in UK), Copac (union catalogue from Consortium of University Research Libraries), National Engineering Education Delivery System(digital library of learning resources), NASA Technical Reports (12 different NASA technical report series); Job Announcements, Industry News, Discovery Guides, Recent Advances in Manufacturing(database of bibliographic information for manufacturing & related areas, covering 500+ niche & mainstream journals & magazines, details of books, videos, conference proceedings); harvests data using standard protocols such as Z39.50 & OAI-PMH;

Textile & Apparel industry of Australia Business to Business solutions portal 9 May 2008
Australia's major suppliers of fibres, yarns, fabrics, nonwoven textiles, household textiles, industrial textiles, dyes, finishing chemicals, dyers, printers, equipment & machinery suppliers, other service providers to Australian & New Zealand textile industry; major designers & suppliers of garments, apparel, fashion accessories, clothing designers & manufacturers, knitwear, labels, trims & apparel accessories; full access requires a company, organisation or educational institution name, or a valid reason why none was given.

Torrent Portal BitTorrent metafile index 18 May 2007
665343 registered members; track 834969 Torrents with 690980987 Peers across 9173 trackers; 67384341 Seeders/623596646 Leechers; links to .torrent metafiles & caches them. No data transferred by or stored on TPl servers is linked to by .torrent files;

Trove discovery service for Australia, Australians, & items in Australian collecting institutions 25 November 2009
records from Australian National Bibliographic Database (including Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts, & Music Australia), Picture Australia, Australian Research Online, Australian Newspapers 1803-1954, PANDORA & some external data sources;

UNESCO Archives Portal 25 November 2004
interactive access to information for archivists & users of archives worldwide; links to national & state archives, archives associations, education & training, conferences & meetings, digital projects; preservation, conservation, standards. Searchable or browsable by region

UNESCO's Free & Open Source Software Portal 30 July 2005
gateway to resources related to Free Software & Open Source Technology movement..

University of Albany: University Libraries' Portal for User Education Instruction & tutorials 22 February 2011

US Government Photos & Multimedia 6 December 2006

Vascoda subject gateway(German/English) 5 May 2006
free academic portal; basic module for Digital Library Germany: fulltext access to journal articles, working papers etc.; Subject Gateways- reliable, quality controlled access to subject-specific websites containing scientific, high-standard resources; Bibliographic Data of other media (printed books, journals, microfilms etc.), often combined with document delivery systems to enable access; calendars, statistical data, videos etc.: Humanities & Area Studies - Economics & Social Sciences - Life Sciences - Engineering & Physical Sciences; Electronic Journals Library (EZB) & 4 German information alliances EconDoc (economy), GetInfo (scitech), infoconnex(education science, social science, psychology) & medical science;

VerticalPortals.com Main Directory to "the___Portal.com" Web portals 17 March 2002
sites that concentrate on a particular area of interest or information, to help find what you're looking for, faster. Full listing of sites & categories

ViFaTec Engineering Subject Gateway(German/English) 31 May 2003
Subject Guide of freely accessible literature identification databases; GetInfo fulltext server; TIBORDER document delivery service; robot-based search service.

Vox online portal (Centre for Economic Policy Research(CEPR)) 23 June 2007
policy issues worldwide; research-based policy analysis & commentary from Europes leading economists; original columns 500-1500 words long; RSS feeds;

Web Based Resources supporting on-campus & distance learning 13 November 2003
Educational gateway to best electronic journals & selected websites by discipline.

Web guides & directories/ Some gateway sites & portals 25 February 2005

WebJunction OCLC funding & grant from Gates Foundation 25 May 2003
online community of US libraries & agencies sharing knowledge & experience to provide broadest public access to IT; .

Weblaw subject gateway to Australian legal resources 4 January 2009

WikiSource Portals 21 August 2011

WIPO GOLD free public one-stop gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data 9 April 2011

WorkGate ILO Library gateway to Internet resources on world of work 14 June 2004
Browse by topic or search ILO documents & selected web sites or Labordoc database of print & electronic articles

World Agricultural Information Centre Portal 19 November 2005
mandate from FAO of UN; WAICENT search engine..browse topics like agroindustry & forest management;

World Bank Open Data Portal 5 October 2011
providing free access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe;

WorldWideScience.org global science federated search gateway(Deep Web Technologies) 6 August 2007
accelerating scientific discovery & progress through multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national & international scientific databases; Article@INIST(France);Australian Antartic Data Centre; Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Information; Defence Research & Development Canada; DEFF Global E Prints, DEFF Research Database(Denmark); Electronic Table of Contents(ETOC) (UK); J-EAST (Japan); J-STAGE(Japan); J-STORE (Japan); Journal@rchive(Japan); NARCIS(Netherlands); Science.gov (US); Scientific Electronic Library Online(Brazil); UK PubMed Central; Vascoda (Germany); (18 June 2008) developed & maintained by Office of Scientific & Technical Information(OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within US Department of Energy. When it debuted in June 2007, it linked to 12 databases from 10 countries. Today, the portal links to 32 national, scientific databases & portals from 44 different countries; 200m+ documents not typically indexed by today's search engines; global science & technology search site, in partnerships with countries, some traditionally not open to share, like China & Korea; Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI); 21 Jan 2012: WWS application for SciVerse Hub allows researchers to seamlessly search WWS content;