FIBS 2007
Intute: Health and Life Sciences – a new era of online resource discovery
Jackie Wickham, Service ManagerCarol Collins, Service Officer
Outline
• What is Intute• Intute site and services• Training and support• Intute for the Biosciences• 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.
• Wider audience includes practitioners• Intute was formerly known as the Resource
Discovery Network (RDN). Intute: Health and Life Sciences is the former RDN hub BIOME.
Network of specialists
Intute: Health and Life Sciences is one of four subject groups that comprise Intute. The other three groups are:
• Arts and Humanities• Science, Engineering and Technology• Social Sciences• Consortium of seven universities, over 70
partner institutions, freelance subject specialists
• Quality assured content developed by the community for the community
Harvester broadens your search
• Searches 300,000 health and life sciences related pages
• Automatically generated from the web addresses in the Intute catalogue
• Updated monthly
Feedback on VTS
• It's great this exists - saves me from having to write something myself, which wouldn't have been as good anyway.Lecturer, University of Warwick
• Thank you for sorting out the confusing world of the internetUndergraduate student, University of Durham
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
Content for the community
Embedding in Your Institution• Intute content is available for use in your
own institution, website and VLEs
• RSS – new resources, Intute news
• Advice on how to use our content available from: http://www.intute.ac.uk/embedding.html
Providing a service of high quality
• Team of subject specialists
• Finding new resources• Evaluating them• Cataloguing them• Reviewing existing records
Finding new resources
• News/current awareness
• Maintaining balance
• Suggestions from users
Evaluating resources
• Scope/audience• Authority and reputation• Comparison with similar sites• Content• Accuracy• Currency• Format
Defining the subject scope and audience
• Collection development policy
• Relevant curricula/QAA benchmarks
• Audience
Evaluating resources
• Scope/audience• Authority and reputation• Comparison with other sites• Content• Accuracy• Currency• Format
Cataloguing a new resource
• Template
• Keywords/classification
• Description
Reviewing existing records
• Regular and frequent link checks
• Specific criteria for full reviews of different resource types
Resource types
• Formal institutions/organisations
• Local/informal groups
• Individual enthusiasts
• Commercial organisations
• Images/videos/programmes
• Publications: books/reports
User involvement
• Consultation on the review of the Collection Development Policy
• Comments on existing records
• Suggestions for new sites via the “Suggest a site” form
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