Design and Development of Subject Gateway of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation with Special Reference to Southern Universities

This study provides a development of gateway for southern universities electronic thesis
and dissertation gateway. Subject gateways are playing the important role in library and
information science field since the internet sources updated. Moreover the concept of
open access is attracted by the research scholars. To provide quality information to the
user community subject gateways are designed. They are valuable sources of information
for users since they are subject specific in nature. With the advent of Internet many
libraries are looking forward to going online with Internet. Often, they find that the
information available over Internet is enormous and if that alone could be somehow
managed and made accessible to the user community satisfy its information need. For the
same they have devised subject-based portals, which are known as Subject Gateways in
the information society. Almost user has quick and specific information to their
researches or studies. For this purposes subject wise gateways are role is very important.
It is also useful to library professionals. This study aims at the role of subject gateways in
the any types of institutions for explore knowledge to researchers, readers, etc. it does
not cover resources other than those originated in India.