Att tillgängliggöra kvalitetskontrollerade Internetresurser
en studie av två ämnesportaler och två samverkansprojekt
The purpose of this masters thesis is to study two subject gate-ways within the field of Swedish higher education and academic research, concerning structuring and selection of Internet resources to facilitate information retrieval for their target groups, and also to study two co-operation projects in the same field, one national and one European, to see how the co-operation is being carried through and how the gateways in the projects can serve from a wider perspective. The gateways, AGORA and NOVAGate, are being studied mainly by their Web sites and two e-mail interviews with persons responsible for the gateways. Facts about the national project are principally based on an interview with BIBSAM. The European Renardus is being studied out of articles and information on the Web site. From the results of the study it is being clear that the purpose of the gateways is to make a quality-selection of information accessible via the Internet and thereby facilitate for their target groups to find usable information. Structuring and link-presentation are based on traditional bibliographic methods, slightly simplified to be better adapted to Web resources. The purpose of the national project is to create a common interface for participating gateways and of Renardus to develop an information-service providing access to European gateways via a single inter-face. The study shows that an extensive co-operational work is going on between university- and research-libraries concerning structuring of Internet resources. It is also established by the study that there is a trend going on from simple subject-divided gateways to co-operation in networks via common interfaces.