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Information Gateways

About Information Gateways

Information gateways are also known as subject gateways and provide links to high quality subject-specific resources. Most information gateways contain summaries of the contents of resources and provide an index. They are produced by subject specialists and information professionals.

Information gateways index a smaller number of Web pages than search engines and subject directories, however, the resources are more likely to be relevant and authoritative.

Examples of Information Gateways

• Veterinary and animal science gateways
• Official government gateways

Veterinary and Animal Science Gateways

Aglinks
Aglinks is a directory of Australian Internet sites relating to agriculture. Web sites are judged according to their Australian content, relevance to farmers, the rural community or agribusiness, and whether they contain interesting, unique or relevant information.

AGRIFOR
AGRIFOR is one of the five gateways that make up the BIOME service (see below). It is produced in the United Kingdom and provides access to quality resources in agriculture, including animal science.

Agrigate
Produced in Australia, Agrigate is a collection of agricultural resources, both online and offline, in a wide range of agricultural subject areas including agribusiness, farming systems, animal science, aquaculture, food sciences and meteorology. The resources are selected by specialist librarians and members of the agriculture research community.

Animal Health Australia
Animal Health Australia's key objectives are to provide strategic development in national policy, manage agreed national programmes, and promote international and domestic confidence in Australia's animal health status. Their site contains links to animal health programmes, animal disease preparedness programme and also contains links to a number of other related sites.

Biology Browser
Provided by Biosis. Biology Browser is a free web site which provdes access to Biosis resources, information exchanges with other professionals and links to relevant information from other sites.

BIOME
BIOME is a gateway to Internet resources in the health and life sciences. Many of the resources are UK based, however, it does include a range of international resources. There are five dedicated subject services within BIOME, each covering a specific area. These are AgriFor, VetGate, OMNI, Natural Selection and BioResearch.

International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS)
This service provides information to veterinarians, veterinary students and animal health professionals around the world. The IVIS website includes free access to up-to-date publications organised in electronic books, proceedings of veterinary meetings, short courses and other continuing education resources, an international calendar of veterinary events and image collections. It is necessary to sign in at each visit.

FarmersInfo
Published by Australian Farmers Information and Buying Guides Pty Ltd. Includes to links to various agricultural organisations and articles on agricultural themes. Also includes a news service.

Martindale's Health Science Guide: the Virtual Veterinary Center
Edited by James G. Martindale and hosted by University of California, Irvine, Science Library, this gateway contains an overview, links to courses, animal and area of study information for veterinary and animal science research. Although the material contained within the site is of good quality, the directory is difficult to use as it is organised in one long page.

NetVet and the Electronic Zoo
Produced by Ken Boschert, DVM of Washington University, USA, this site is a collection of directories, publications, references, mailing lists, newsgroups, images and Web resources, all relating to veterinary science.

NOVAGate
Nordic Gateway to Information in Forestry, Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. The site includes Internet resources in the fields of veterinary and agricultural sciences from all over the world.

OMNI
OMNI is one of the five gateways that make up the BIOME service (see above). It provides access to resources in veterinary medicine, medicine, biomedicine, allied health, health management, and related topics.

Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
RIRDC is an Australian statutory corporation involved in managing and funding rural research and translating results into practical outcomes for industry development. Its website provides links to government, industry and agricultural resources including a list of links to Ag-Facts, fact sheets produced by State agricultural departments and research agencies.

VETGATE
VetGate offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering animal health. VETGATE is one of the five services that make up the BIOME gateway (see above).

Vetscape
VetScape was established in 1994 by William Easson BVMS MRCVS who is based in the United Kingdom. It links to other information gateways and relevant sites for veterinary and animal scientists.

Veterinary Support Personnel Network: VSPN
This is one of three USA based services provided by the Veterinary Information Network. VSPN is intended for people working with, for, or in the field of veterinary medicine. The other two services are the free Pet Care Forum, for a general audience, and the fee-based VIN, for veterinarians. It is necessary to register to use all of the services. Selected World Wide Web links are available on the site.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Veterinary Medicine
The WWW Virtual Library Veterinary Medicine is a selected collection of links for veterinary and animal science Internet resources. More comprehensive coverage is available at the NetVet Veterinary Resources homepage.

Anuvet
A German-based veterinary search engine.