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www.altis.ac.uk. Altis: Your Guide to Internet Resources in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Steve Hewett, Altis Manager. Online Resources for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism University of Gloucestershire 23 rd June 2004. www.altis.ac.uk. What is Altis?.

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  1. www.altis.ac.uk Altis: Your Guide to Internet Resources in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Steve Hewett, Altis Manager Online Resources for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism University of Gloucestershire 23rd June 2004

  2. www.altis.ac.uk What is Altis? • An educational search engine (freely available!) • Primarily for HE/FE users • Core service – a database of more than 2,700+ records • Additional services supporting teaching and learning • A JISC-funded initiative • Part of a national network – the Resource Discovery Network

  3. www.altis.ac.uk Why do we need Altis? the problem………. … finding relevant, high quality and authoritative information on the Internet

  4. www.altis.ac.uk Commercial search engines? • Information overload! • Trustworthiness of resources • Unhelpful descriptions

  5. www.altis.ac.uk The Solution? … use of subject specialists to identify, assess and describe high quality Internet resources

  6. Using Altis Search the Altis database Explore additional features, e.g. What’s New, Learning Materials Browse subject areas

  7. Hospitality & Catering Beverages Wine

  8. Additional features What’s New • New records • Altis News • Jobs.ac.uk Learning Materials • Virtual Training Suite Tutorials • Altis Case Studies

  9. Coming soon • An cross search facility • A tailored e-mail alerting service • Database of current research? • Events database? • Sport & Leisure Index database • www.altis.ac.uk/sli

  10. Topics covered include ….

  11. www.altis.ac.uk/sli Many abstracts

  12. www.altis.ac.uk The Resource Discovery Network Eight subject Gateways: • SOSIG: Social Sciences • Humbul: Humanities • EEVL: Engineering, Maths & Computing • PsiGate: Physical Sciences • GESource: Geography & Environment • Biome: Health & Life Sciences • ArtIfact: Arts & Creative Industries

  13. ResourceFinder Additional services

  14. Contact us Steve Hewett Altis Manager s.j.r.hewett@bham.ac.uk 0121 414 5841 Thank you

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