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Web Portals
Customization. Personalization. Web services are increasingly designed to make our web experience responsive to our individual needs. Web portals are websites that aim to customize and personalize web services for their users. Furthermore, they are being designed as one-stop sites that integrate or consolidate the user's diverse information sources that are scattered in different applications and sites.
Portals are not a new idea. As the number of web resources increased so did directories to these resources. Yahoo and the Open Directory Project are probably two of the oldest general-purpose portals. Now, web portals are used in more specific contexts and purposes as in the following examples:
- MyUW
- MyWelch (Johns Hopkins)
- MyUCLA
- FirstGov.gov (USA)
- MyFlorida.com
- DirectGov.gov (UK)
- Selected Web Portals for Scientists
- Selected Web Portals for Educators
- Web Portals for Librarians
- Web Portals for Spanish and Portuguese Language & Literature
- Asian American Health (NLM/NIH)
- Yahoo's List of Web Portals
- Google's List of Web Portals
- Portal Webliography
- Web portals and higher education
- The Future of the Web
- Semantic Community Web Portals
- Johns Hopkins Library Information Portal
- Opening Doors: web-portals and the historic environment (HEIRNET)
University Portals
Government Portals
Portals for Specific Groups of Users
Further Listings of Web Portals
Some articles on Web Portals
- por·tal (pôr'tl) , n.
- Answers.com
1. A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing.
2. An entrance or a means of entrance: the local library, a portal of knowledge.
3.The portal vein.
4. A website considered as an entry point to other websites, often by being or providing access to a search engine.
Wikipedia
A web portal is a web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or portal, to other resources on the Internet or an intranet.