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Enrich your reading lists with online
resources : MyIntute
Theresa Summerfield
24th June 2008
The problem?
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Too many Web resources
Difficult keeping up to date
Link checking existing content
Assuring quality of resources
Why use Intute?
• Authoritative
• Best of the Web for higher
education/academic research
• Free
• Subject based
• By the community for the
community
More reasons to use Intute
• Encourage your students to develop their
Internet information literacy skills
• Solve the frustrations of searching the
Internet
• Save time
• Current awareness
Intute
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Search
Browse
Additional services
Blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts
Projects
Personalisation
Virtual Training Suite
• Over 60 free online Internet training
tutorials
• Develop Internet search and
research skills
• Self paced, teach yourself
• Quizzes and interactive exercises
Virtual Training Suite
http://vts.intute.ac.uk
Support materials
http://www.intute.ac.uk/support.html
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Leaflets
Posters
Best of the Web guides
Presentations
Quick guides
Subject booklets
http://www.intute.ac.uk/subjectbooklets.html
Different versions:
• Paper
• HTML (automatically updated)
• PDF (for printing)
More uses for MyIntute
• Subject booklets
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/booklets/olympics.html
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/booklets/business_tourism.html
• Articles
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/limelight/Egyptology%20resources.ht
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http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/limelight/Endangeredlanguages.html
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/limelight/euthanasia.html
Examples of Intute integration
Womens studies London Met
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/aboutthecollections/intute.cfm
Exeter generic
http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/intute-i/
Escalate subject network
http://escalate.ac.uk/intute
Nursing & midwifery
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/subjects/intute_search.html
Social Sciences
http://www.library.mmu.ac.uk/eresource/rbintutesoc.html
Leeds law
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/subjects/law/websites.php
British Library Eurostudies
http://www.bl.uk/collections/social/eudoc.html
Thank you!
Contact
Theresa Summerfield
Intute Content Coordinator
Tel: 0121 414 3409
Email: [email protected]