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2. INFOportal was designed to support academic work: from search and retrieval of information, indexing of personal databases to publishing. The system is supported by communication through virtual groups. The INFOportal is YOUR gateway to success.

3. ADVANTAGE- INFOportal supports personal academic knowledge management for UP academics and students.

5. INFOportal main functions  Login and Customization  Virtual Groups  Electronic Resources  Microdatabases  Electronic Publishing

7. http://infoportal.up.ac.za Login

8. Students must get their username and password from the Computer lab, NW 2, 2-7 (opposite Steers)

9. Customise your portal

12. Advantages-  Electronic collaboration: research, administration, learning, projects  Applications: e-mail, bookmarks, uploading of any type of document

16. Advantages- Web-based e-mail(UP staff only)  E-mail access indepedent of location  “The portal is becoming the desktop.”

20. Advantages-  Information specialists from the AIS organise Electronic Resources for every UP department  New and relevant resources are brought automatically highlighted  Search function: Internet search engines links and university and library catalogue searches (UP Explore).  Journal, database, web sites, e-book and conferences searches

23. Advantages-  Personalized, web-based database creation  INFOportal user access to personalized databases

27. Advantages – Digital Collections  Web-based, multimedia database creation by/for academics or departments,eg ArchUP  INFOportal user access to multimedia databases

31. Advantage- Internet bookmarks  Saved favourite site list independent of location

34. Advantages-  Personal thesis or dissertation publication online  Electronic peer evaluation of conference papers to simplify the organisation of upcoming conferences

37. Credits  Design and development of academic portal: Dr Heila Pienaar, Academic Information Service, University of Pretoria  Development of portal software:  Frank Conradie, Opticode  Leon Messerschmidt, Psybergate