Websites which provide a single point of access

On 13th December 2011 ALISS (Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences) held a half-day conference which highlighted significant gateways/ portals - websites which provide a single point of access to large collections of full text social science documents, reports and other materials.

Peter Lambert, Knowledge Portal Manager, Third Sector Research Centre

http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/december2011lambert-10580977

Jennie Grimshaw, Curator, Social Policy Collections, British Library
http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/Research/KnowledgePortal/tabid/840/Default.aspx
Introduced the Third Sector Knowledge Portal which was launched in October 2011 and aims to bring together research and information on the voluntary and community sector
Rozz Evans
http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/december2011evans
Collection Development Librarian Institute of Education, University of London spoke about the development content and future plans of Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/

Dr Jane Winters

http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/december2011winters