Intute Health and Life Sciences: the relaunch of BIOME

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Intute Health and Life Sciences the relaunch of
BIOME

• Jenny Hall

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Outline

• Building Intute
• Foundation and Background
• Distance travelled
• Preview of site and services
• Future
• Questions

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Overview

• Structures

• Building Intute
• Arts and Humanities
• Health and Life Sciences
• Science, Technology, Engineering and Geography
• Social Sciences

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Our Mission and Values

• We exist to advance education and research by
  promoting the best of the Web through evaluation
  and collaboration
• Our vision is to enable the education and
  research community to unlock knowledge from the
  Internet.

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The Foundation

• Hand selected, quality assured content Best of
  the Web
• Increasing use BIOME 30 in last year
• Network of subject specialists by the community
  for the community
• Training in skilled use of the internet

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The Foundation

• Excellent Service providing a host of useful
  information resources selects the best internet
  resources for busy health professionals Subject
  Librarian (Health), University of Plymouth
• Very useful as they bring together relevant
  health care web sites not time to produce such
  handout locally Subject Librarian, University
  Wales, Swansea
• Always reliable and user friendly Information
  Skills Trainer, Whipps Cross Hospital

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Background to the change

• Need to demonstrate value for money
• Need to report consistently across hubs
• Need to demonstrate impact
• Need to establish a sustainable future
• The Google question

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Distance travelled

• One internet resource catalogue
• Redesigned website
• One organisation with shared vision and strategy
• One name
• Single Performance Framework

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Distance travelled

• Easier to use
• Better searching
• More value added services
• More opportunities to solve the frustrations of
  the Internet

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• Launch 13th July
• Wellcome Trust
• London

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Personalise

• My Intute
• Create your own account
• Save searches, subjects and records
• Tag records with your own keywords
• Weekly email alerts
• Export data into your systems and sites

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Content for the community

• Embedding in Your Institution
• Intute content is available for use in your own
  institution, website and VLEs
• Advice on how to use our content available from
• http//www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/supp
  ort.html (from 13th July)

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Future Intute developments

• INFORMS
• Institutional Repositories Search Service
• HEA Resource catalogue integration
• JORUM metadata creation services

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Any Questions?

• Contact details
• Jenny Hall
• Tel [phone]
• jenny.hall_at_nottingham.ac.uk