Department of library&Information science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 620 024, India, neelubdu@gmail.com.
Gateways give an opportunity to authors/scholars/users for providing 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 gateways. The accepted resource is then classified, indexed and catalogued. The Internet today contains huge amount of global information. To access the required, specific, relevant, and quality information is not an easy job. The information to be accessed has a definite purpose and theme. This paper explains the need and scope of creating a subject based gateway related to domain specific content such as Biotechnology, Nanotechnology etc. There are several resources coming up for the emerging fields both in open sources and in conventional methods. In the recent decades subject based content collection gateways are increasing around theglobe, this paper explains about onesuch gateway related to Biotechnology.
Software's, ejournals, gateways, biotechnology knowledge management