Emerging services from Intute

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Emerging services from Intute

• Linda Kerr
• Intute Science, Engineering and Technology

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Introduction

• What is Intute?
• New Intute services
• Pick mix quick guides
• Questions

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What is Intute?

• Intute is a national Internet service guiding you
  to useful Web resources for education and
  research.
• It is a free service aimed at the UKs higher and
  further education sectors and is relevant to
  students, lecturers, researchers and teachers.
• Intute was formerly known as the Resource
  Discovery Network (RDN).

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Network of specialists

• Four subject groups comprise Intute
• Arts and Humanities
• Health and Life Sciences
• Science, Engineering and Technology
• Social Sciences
• Hand selected, quality assured content Best of
  the Web

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Network of specialists

• A consortium of seven universities
• 70 partner institutions providing subject
  expertise and advice
• Created by the community for the community

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Intute Science, Engineering and Technology

• The University of Manchester
• Heriot-Watt University
• Cranfield University
• Institute of Physics Publishing
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Scenta (Engineering and Technology Board)

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Support Internet Training

• Free support materials
• Leaflet
• Quick Guide to Intute Science, Engineering and
  Technology
• Presentation
• Best of the Web booklets in Chemistry, Physics,
  Computing and Environmental Engineering
• Welcome to adapt and reuse in your own institution

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Integrating Intute into your service

• There are several ways you can choose
• Pulling in Intute content or functionality into
  your own webpage
• Working with staff at Intute to put your
  resources on our catalogue.

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Examples of integrating..
Put Intute search box on your library webpage,
eg. for Intute Engineering resources
Librarian could list latest nanotechnology
resources added to Intute, on their library
webpage
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Why integrate Intute?

• Intute feedback shows that users want
• Seamless services
• To re-purpose content
• Flexibility and their own look
• Resources automatically updated
• Reputable services

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How can we help? We offer

• Intute pick and mix Quick Guides
• Further online help materials
• Intute email helpdesk

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Intute Quick Guides
Online step-by-step guides with examples and
screenshots to help you

• Introduction
• Contributing resources
• MyIntute
• Linking to Intute
• Newsfeeds

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More online help here
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Contributing Resources

• See our Quick Guide
• You suggest resources
• Fill out Suggest a site form http//www.intute.ac
  .uk/suggest.html
• Assessment by Intute subject specialist and added
  to catalogue
• if suitable

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Personalise - MyIntute

• See our Quick Guide
• Create your own account
• Save searches, subjects and records
• Tag records with your own keywords
• Export data into your web pages
• Updated automatically

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Linking to Intute

• See our Quick Guide to linking
• Various ways to link simple or
• sophisticated
• Intute search box - options
• VLE linking

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SET Blog

• Developing a blog service
• Discussion on new resources
• Highlight updates
• Mini-case studies
• Articles on web resources
• Want your views

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Contact details

• Linda Kerr
• Tel [phone]
• l.kerr_at_hw.ac.uk