subject gateway kiv . subject gateway – what is it? internet based service to locate high quality...

Subject Gateway KIVhttp://kiv.jib.cz

SUBJECT GATEWAY – WHAT IS IT?

•Internet based service•To locate high quality information

available on the Internet•Database of catalogue records•Hyperlink to the resources•To search by keywords

(definition: Emma Place)

HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION SOURCES

•For librarians & information professionals

•LIS teachers•Students

HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION SOURCES

All web sources:

Just LIS sources:

Just quality selected sources

HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION SOURCES

•Focus on Czech web – more detailed•Foreign sources – just sites, portals•Languages: Czech, Slovak, English,

German

DATABASE OF CATALOGUE RECORDS

•Cataloguing•Standards:

• MARC21• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules• Authority files• Hyperlink to the resources

DATABASE OF CATALOGUE RECORDS

•Database KKL•= catalogue and databases of LIS

Library

DATABASE OF CATALOGUE RECORDS

Database KKL ≠ Subject Gateway KIV

TWO GOALS OF THE KIV GATEWAY

1.To find the bibliographic record of the source = to search

2.To get the text

SEARCH

• Searching engine in MetaLib• Paralell searching in different

databases• KKL is one of the searched databases

SEARCH

• Databases have a scope of their own• Traditional documents too• How to get books and articles?

TO GET THE TEXT

• Software MetaLib and SFX• Added services• Not only in selected sources, also

library OPACs, the Czech Union catalogue, full text databases …