emerging services from intute

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…

Contact details

Linda Kerr

Tel: 0131 451 3572

l.kerr@hw.ac.uk