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Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology - Your Trusted Resource Hub

Intute is a free internet service providing valuable web resources for UK's higher education sectors. It offers hand-selected, quality assured content in diverse subjects. Integrate Intute into your services for seamless access, resources updated automatically, and reputable services. Explore Intute's "pick and mix" Quick Guides, online help materials, and email helpline. Contribute resources via MyIntute and link to Intute for newsfeeds and resources. Personalize your account with searches, tags, and data export. Contact Linda Kerr for more information.

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Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology - Your Trusted Resource Hub

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  1. Emerging services from Intute Linda Kerr Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

  2. Introduction • What is Intute? • New Intute services • Pick & mix quick guides • Questions

  3. 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).

  4. 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

  5. Network of specialists • A consortium of seven universities • 70 partner institutions providing subject expertise and advice • Created by the community for the community

  6. 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)

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. Examples of integrating.. 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

  10. 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

  11. How can we help? We offer: • Intute “pick and mix” Quick Guides • Further online help materials • Intute email helpdesk

  12. Introduction Contributing resources MyIntute Linking to Intute Newsfeeds Intute Quick Guides: Online step-by-step guides with examples and screenshots to help you

  13. More online help here

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Linking to Intute • See our Quick Guide to linking • Various ways to link – simple or • sophisticated • Intute search box - options • VLE linking

  17. SET Blog • Developing a blog service • Discussion on new resources • Highlight updates • Mini-case studies • Articles on web resources • Want your views…

  18. Contact details Linda Kerr Tel: 0131 451 3572 l.kerr@hw.ac.uk

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