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Enrich your reading lists with online resources : MyIntute

Enrich your reading lists with online resources : MyIntute. RSC WM e-resources day. Theresa Summerfield 20 th January 2009. The problem?. Too many Web resources Difficult keeping up to date Link checking existing content Assuring quality of resources. Why use Intute?. Authoritative

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Enrich your reading lists with online resources : MyIntute

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  1. Enrich your reading lists with online resources :MyIntute RSC WM e-resources day Theresa Summerfield 20th January 2009

  2. The problem? • Too many Web resources • Difficult keeping up to date • Link checking existing content • Assuring quality of resources

  3. Why use Intute? • Authoritative • Best of the Web for higher education/academic research • Free • Subject based • By the community for the community

  4. 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

  5. Intute • Search • Browse • Additional services • Blogs, RSS feeds • Projects • Personalisation

  6. Virtual Training Suite • Over 60 free online Internet training tutorials • Develop Internet search and research skills • Self paced, teach yourself • Quizzes and interactive exercises

  7. Virtual Training Suite http://vts.intute.ac.uk

  8. Support materialshttp://www.intute.ac.uk/support.html • Leaflets • Posters • Best of the Web guides • Presentations • Quick guides

  9. Subject booklets http://www.intute.ac.uk/subjectbooklets.html • Different versions: • Paper • HTML (automatically updated) • PDF (for printing)

  10. MyIntute http://www.intute.ac.uk/integrationguides/myintute.pdf • Personalisation tool • Registration required • Save records and searches • Add your own tags (keywords) & notes • Export them to re-purpose e.g. embed in websites, VLEs, MLEs

  11. 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.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/limelight/Endangeredlanguages.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/limelight/euthanasia.html

  12. 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

  13. Thank you! Contact Theresa Summerfield Intute Content Coordinator Tel: 0121 414 3409 Email: t.a.summerfield@bham.ac.uk

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