Subject portals : a new information delivery model to enhance teaching and learning

This paper describes a UK project which is developing subject portals to support digital communities of scholars in four disciplines: humanities, life sciences, social sciences, and engineering. These portals address the need for simpler and more uniform access to two key sources of networked information resources: quality assured information freely available on the Web, and subscription-based services such as abstracting and indexing tools, e-journals, and digitised collections.