PORTALS : people,processes and technology - Cox (London : Facet Pub., 2006)
First applied internet gateways such as Yahoo, the concept of the 'portal' has evolved in a bewildering number of directions.Different themes of personalization, aggregation or integration seem to have dominated our understanding of what a portal should be at different time.Many organizations and institutions have borrowed the idea from the net to address local problems of integrating and presenting information sources to users - yet they have developed the concept in different ways.Meanwhile new models seem to be constantly emerging from the internet.Leading edge researchers and practitioners explore the variety of ways in which the aspiration to portalize information is currently being realized and offer several views on likely future trends.
Keywords: Web portals