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Intute: Health and Life Sciences Workshop ALLCU 2007

Intute: Health and Life Sciences Workshop ALLCU 2007. Laurian Williamson laurian.williamson@nottingham.ac.uk Content Coordinator, Intute: HLS Peter Hoare peter.hoare@nottingham.ac.uk Service Officer, Agriculture, Food & Forestry. Outline of the 1 hour workshop….

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Intute: Health and Life Sciences Workshop ALLCU 2007

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  1. Intute: Health and Life SciencesWorkshop ALLCU 2007 Laurian Williamson laurian.williamson@nottingham.ac.uk Content Coordinator, Intute: HLS Peter Hoare peter.hoare@nottingham.ac.uk Service Officer, Agriculture, Food & Forestry

  2. Outline of the 1 hour workshop… • Brief presentation on Intute: Health and Life Sciences • Hands on – practical session, exploring: • the Intute: Health and Life Sciences website • Searching and browsing • Virtual Training Suite • MyIntute (personalisation functionality) • Q & A and comments please

  3. What is Intute: Health and Life Sciences? • Intute is a freequality assured information and training resource, guiding you to useful Web resources for education and research • Each resource is evaluated using evaluation guidelines • Intute : Health and Life Sciences covers a broad subject area - clinical medicine, nursing, midwifery and allied health, biological research, natural history, agriculture, food & forestry, and veterinary medicine

  4. Intute one year on….. • Intute launched in July 2006 (replacing RDN) • Intute HLS replaced BIOME and is based at University of Nottingham • Intute has over 115,000 resources and is aimed at both HE and FE • Intute HLS has over 33,000 resources • Intute consists of four main subject groups – HLS, Social Sciences, Science, Engineering and Technology, and Arts and Humanities

  5. Network of specialists • Intute is a consortium of seven universities, 70 partner institutions • Distributed national team of content providers • Creating, reviewing, maintaining the Internet Resource Catalogue (IRC) • Quality assured content developed by the community for the community

  6. Searching Intute : Health and Life Sciences Search the catalogue • Over 33,000 records, each one hand selected and described by a subject specialist • Simple keyword or phrase searching • Refine your search by type of resource • Simple or Advanced searching options

  7. Harvesting records Harvester to broaden your searches • Searches for health and life science related pages • Automatically generated from the web addresses in the main Intute catalogue • Updated monthly • Remember – records retrieved from the harvester have not been evaluated

  8. Browsing Intute : Health and Life Sciences Browse the catalogue by controlled keywords • CAB – veterinary, agriculture, food and forestry • RCN – nursing, midwifery and allied health • MeSH – medicine, nursing, midwifery and allied health, biological research, bioethics, medical history, public engagement with science Browse the catalogue by subject headings • Natural History and Psci-com – both utilise classification schedules and broad subject headings

  9. We also recommend Additional services • Hot Topics • News aggregation service • RSS feeds for new records • Intute: Health and Life Sciences Blog • Virtual Training Suite • Best of the Web resource booklets • MyIntute personalisation tool • Embedding (integrating) Intute services

  10. MyIntute • Registering with MyIntute creates a personal account where you can: • Save Intute records of interest and database searches • Receive a weekly email alert listing new records added to the database - which match your specified subject areas or saved searches • Export records to your own Web pages • We have provided each of you with a temporary username and password for this training session only

  11. Virtual Training Suitehttp://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/ • FREE Internet tutorials • Teaching Internet research skills • Over 65 university & college subjects covered • Learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research • Interactive exercises and quizzes

  12. Virtual Training suite

  13. Practical session Explore some of the following services: • Searching and Browsing Intute: Health and Life Sciences http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/ • MyIntute http://www.intute.ac.uk/myintute/index.php • Virtual Training Suite http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/

  14. Feedback • Questions or comments? • We welcome feedback on all aspects of our service, please do not hesitate to contact Peter or myself • Intute HLS Helpdesk is available at: http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/feedback.html

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