An Empirical Study on Design, Development and Accessibility of Subject Gateway for Engineering Related Subjects

Subject Gateway is an organized collection of resources on a given subject along with a retrieval mechanism. This essentially means that the scope of the search domain is well defined and limited to a subset of what exists in general. In the simplest form, the resources may be made available as a structured hyperlinked directory. A subject directory is a service that offers a collection of links to web sites, organized into subject categories. The value of subject directories is that you can browse by predetermined subject headings or categories, and that website has been classified by people rather than computers. Yahoo is a classic example of a subject directory. It categorizes the universe of knowledge into several subject headings. These are further broken down into sub-headings and links are given to the corresponding web pages. The target audience is hence very generic.