J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. Launched in 2001 by Informatics India Limited, J-Gate provides seamless access to  millions of journal articles available online offered by 6676 Publishers. It presently has a massive database of journal literature, indexed from  21337 e-journals with links to full text at publisher sites. J-Gate also plans to support online subscription to journals, electronic document delivery,  archiving and other related services.

 Currently, J-Gate offers two types of products/services:

• Truly e-journal portal
  J-Gate excludes journals that are not available online.

• Portal with largest number of e-journals
  As an e-journal portal, J-Gate presently hosts content from 21337 e-journals.

• Access to 1608 e-only-journals
  J-Gate provides access to 1608 online-only journals, which are not available in print.

• 6367 open-access online journals
  Captures and indexes articles from more than 6367 open-access e-journals and maintains links to them.

• Links to 2539973 open-access articles
  Provides links to over 2539973 open-access articles.

• Full-text link to largest number of publisher sites
  Presently links to e-journals from 6676 publishers.

• Union List linkage
  This useful feature enables a J-Gate subscriber to check the availability of journals in local libraries.

• Customization features
  J-Gate Custom Content (JCC) and J-Gate Custom Content for Consortia (JCCC) are Intranet solutions offering customization, making J-Gate a local gateway for subscribed journals.

• Constant updating
  The J-Gate site is updated every day, ensuring the freshness and reliability of content.

• Comprehensive journal classification
  Three level hierarchical classification of journals is available.

• Easy-to-use search functionalities
  TOC and Database allows various search options for the user's convenience. The subscriber can choose to search by Title, Author, Authors' Address/Institution, Keywords, etc.

1. J-Gate TOC (Table of Contents)

• 21337 e-journals (as of 9 February, 2010)
  

• Browse TOC by Journals, Publishers and Subject Categories.
  

• TOC for all journals is available in an uniform browsable format.
  

• Basic bibliographic data with abstracts (where available).
  

• Author address and e-mail where available.
  

• Link to full-text (both open-access and subscription).
  

• Link to Union List for finding availability.
  

• Daily updating.
  

2. J-Gate Database
   

• J-Gate Database consists of more extensive and comprehensive content than TOC.
  

• Classification on three levels of subject category.
  

• Subject-wise indexing.
  

• Search by Title, Author, Subject Categories, Keywords, Year and any combination of these.
  

• Provides basic bibliographic data with abstracts (where available).
  

• Author Address and e-mail where available.
  

• Link to full-text (both open-access and subscription).
  

• Link to Union List for finding availability.
  

• Daily updating with progressive accumulation.
  

3. J-Gate Custom Content (JCC)
   

• A local Intranet/Internet solution.
  

• Provides TOC and Database services customized to all the journals subscribed by the client.
  

• Customized J-Gate software is installed at clients' premises.
  

• Weekly delivery of TOC and Database Content.
  

4. JCC for Consortia (JCCC)

• JCCC service is for a homogeneous group of clients who wish to share resources.
  

• JCCC software is installed at each client site.
  

• Common TOC and Database services for journals subscribed by all the clients which have formed a consortium. Content is mirrored in each participating library.
  

• Link to Union List for resource sharing. E-mail request for article photocopies can be sent directly by users while browsing articles/abstracts, to any chosen library participating in the consortium.
  

Scholarly and Technical publishers, as well as specific, mutual agreement driven partnerships with key publishers have been a major support and strength for J-Gate. A few of our current publisher partners actively participating in J-Gate include:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Annual Reviews Inc

• Aspen Publishers, Inc

• Baywood Publishing Company, Inc

• Bentham Science Publishers Ltd

• BioMed Central Ltd

• Blackwell Publishing

• BMJ Publishing Group

• CAB International

• Cambridge University Press

• CSIRO Publishing

• Emerald Group Publishing Limited

• Haworth Press, Inc

• Inderscience Enterprises Limited

• Institute of Physics Publishing

• International Labour Office

• IP Publishing

• ISRO Satellite Centre

• Johnson Matthey

• Kingston Press Ltd

• Kluwer Academic Publishers

• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

• Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

• Multi-Science Publishing Co

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

• Oxford University Press

• Psychonomic Society Publications

• Radcliffe Medical Press

• S Karger Ag

• Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics

• Springer Verlag

• University of California Press

• World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Besides these partners whose titles are specially promoted through J-Gate, J-Gate as a portal also covers content from thousands of e-journal publishers from all over the world.

• 7-days/24 hours access.
  

• High-speed in-house Internet infrastructure.
  

• Content capturing and conversion system with high automation ensures high quality content aggregation.
  

• In-house software development team.
  

• Safe and reliable high-capacity storage system for content storage.
  

 Informatics will be happy to set up trial access to J-Gate and present the benefits of J-Gate customized services to your users and decision makers  in your campus. Please Click here to request a trial.