The AHDS Gateway:
Provides a point of access to the electronic resources held by the five AHDS service providers
- such as electronic texts, databases, images and video and audio clips, online where possible
Allows users to search across a variety of independent and very different online catalogues as if they were a single catalogue.
Provides access to high-quality information providers of data from the disciplines of archaeology, history, literature and language, the performing and visual arts
Resources selected for their quality and for their relevance to those interested in the Arts & Humanities.
Users also benefit from a more refined approach to searching, being able to search against specified fields (creator, subject, title, etc), which is not possible through most Search engines available on the Internet.