This book discussed about the design and development of web portal for the subject. A subject portal can assist the students in e-learning by providing wide variety of digital resources and web based library services. Subject portals are important tools for users to access and utilize library and information services over a network. After knowing the demand of this kind of portal, the authors developed a subject portal in Bioinformatics discipline to assist to the learners in accessing variety of information related to their subject in a single login. This book consists of seven chapters like i) Concepts of Web Portal, ii) Previous Studies on Web Portals, iii) Design of Web Portal by Open Source Software, iv) Research Design and Methodology, y) Design and Development of Web Prototype Portal, vi) An Evaluation of Bioinformatics Portal, and vii) Findings and Conclusion on Web Portal. we are sure that this book would be valuable addition to the library and Information Science literature.

Dr. P. Ravichandran is presently working as Head, Library and Information Science Wing, Directorate of Distance Education, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar-60002. He has more than 25 years of experience. He has published many research papers in various National and International Journals and has delivered many guest lectures. He is the Editor-in-Chief in the International Journal of Information Retrieval and Management. Fifteen candidates were awarded Ph.D under his guidance and has produced more than seventy fi ve M.Phil Degree for various candidates in different universities in Tamil Nadu. Dr. S. Dhanavandan, is working as Assistant Librarian at The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram – 624 302, Tamil Nadu. He serves more than seventeen years in the LIS profession. He has guided many Ph.D. scholars and Doctoral Committee member in various universities in Tamil Nadu. He has published more than 90 articles in National and International Journals and more than 100 papers presented and published in National and International Conferences. Further he also published more than 15 books in Library and Information Science and 20 papers published in chapters in edited books. He has attended more than 50 Seminars/Workshops and training programmes. He served as Chairperson and resource person in many workshop and conferences and also organized fi ve workshops.