This site has been selected for inclusion in the PSIgate listings.
PSIgate (Physical Science Information Gateway) is the physical sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). PSIgate aims to provide high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in the physical sciences, specifically in: astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, and science history and policy.
Along with the other hubs that make up the RDN, PSIgate provides an online database of relevant, high quality Internet resources, the Internet Resource Catalogue (IRC). Each resource has been selected by information professionals and subject specialists to ensure relevance and quality. A full description of each resource is provided, together with direct access to the resource itself.
In addition to the above, PSIgate plans to develop additional services in support of the needs of the physical sciences community: a search engine that will harvest additional web sites from the Internet Catalogue, and a current awareness service.
PSIgate is managed by CALIM, the Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester, which comprises: the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University Library, UMIST Library, University of Salford Library, and Manchester Business School Library.
The service is located on hardware housed at Manchester Computing (MC), and is a JISC-funded service. The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is an Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. The service is primarily aimed at Internet users in further and higher education.
The RDN provides access to a series of interconnected Internet resource catalogues containing descriptions of high quality Internet sites, selected and described by specialists from within UK academia and affiliated organisations. Value-added services such as interactive web tutorials and alerting services are also provided to enable users to make more of their time on the Internet.
The RDN is a JISC-funded service.
You can view the listing by clicking here.