Emerging services from Intute
Linda KerrIntute: Science, Engineering and Technology
Introduction
• What is Intute?• New Intute services• Pick & mix quick guides• Questions
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 UK’s higher and further education sectors and is relevant to students, lecturers, researchers and teachers.
• Intute was formerly known as the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).
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
Network of specialists
• A consortium of seven universities
• 70 partner institutions providing subject expertise and advice
• Created by the community for the community
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)
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
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.
Examples of integrating..
Put Intute search box on your library webpage, eg. for Intute: Engineering resources
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
Librarian could list latest
nanotechnology resources added to
Intute, on their library webpage
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
How can we help? We offer:
• Intute “pick and mix” Quick Guides
• Further online help materials
• Intute email helpdesk
Intute Quick Guides:
• Introduction
• Contributing resources
• MyIntute
• Linking to Intute
• Newsfeeds
Online step-by-step guides with
examples and screenshots to
help you
Online step-by-step guides with
examples and screenshots to
help you
More online help here
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
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
Linking to Intute
•See our Quick Guide to linking
•Various ways to link – simple or
sophisticated
•Intute search box - options
•VLE linking
SET Blog
• Developing a blog service
• Discussion on new resources
• Highlight updates
• Mini-case studies
• Articles on web resources
• Want your views…