STM Portal

Author: Dana Smetanová,  State Technical Library, Czech Republic

Co-author: Lucie Hejná, Státní technická knihovna

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Abstract

The Internet has become very important in lives of many people who use it daily to find various information. Not many users have had an opportunity to learn systematically what the internet is and which resources can be found there. STM portal is dedicated to information resources relating to science, technology and medicine. The goals of STM portal are to make orientation in these resources easy and provide access to them from one point - the portal.

STM portal includes licensed information resources accessible in the Czech libraries and links to other subject gateways and resources on the Internet that satisfy certain quality criteria.Licensed information resources are recorded in the database "STM Catalogue" that enables searching and provides data about resource availability.

STM portal was launched in September 2003. Data are regularly checked and updated and tools are further developed.

About the author

Position: Head of Department of Reference and Interlibrary Lending Services

I have been working in the State Technical library since 1986. At the begining I was responsible for ILL services, then I worked as an assisstent in the Czech National Centre ISSN. Since 1996 I have been working in the position of Head of department.

Professional interests: electronic information sources, information retrieval, evaluation of information resources, digital libraries and their services, document delivery services, online information services