Integrating Intute

Jackie WickhamAHIS Annual Conference17th July 2008

Use of the Internet for Studies

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HE Students(61)

• The Internet is clearly an essential tool

• Almost all students use if for researching essays and projects

• (Market research by FDS – Feb/March 2008)

Students: Do you ever use the Internet to do research for essays or projects?

Source: FDS online survey

Introduction

• What is Intute?

• Integrating Intute

• Questions

• Demo of MyIntute

• Practical hands on exercise

Solving the frustrations of the Internet• The Internet is a powerful tool for education and

research, providing a range of educational resources to support traditional teaching and learning

• Issues of trust, quality, information overload, poor searching and retrieving skills are significant concerns – particularly in the context of education and research

• Intute is a free, national Internet service aimed at higher and further education, providing the very best web resources for teaching, learning and research

Intute is different

• Intute uses a national network of information and subject specialists to select and evaluate Internet resources for their quality and relevance….

• including the Royal Veterinary College, Wellcome Trust, Royal College of Nursing, University of Oxford, MIDIRS.

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 – by the community for the community

Finding the Best of the Web

Search/Browse the catalogue

• Over 120,000 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

• Browse by subject heading or keyword

Integrating Intute

There are several ways & you can choose…

•Simple linking

•Pulling in Intute content or functionality into your own Web page

•Working with staff at Intute to put your resources on our catalogue.

The problems?• Too many resources on

Net• Keeping up to date with

new ones• Link checking existing

content• Assuring quality of

resources

Examples of integrating..

Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources

Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources

List latest language resources added to

Intute, on your library Web page

List latest language resources added to

Intute, on your library Web page

Create your reading

lists from Intute

resources

Create your reading

lists from Intute

resources

Intute Search BoxIntute Search Box

IntuteRSS Feeds

IntuteRSS Feeds

Records from Intute catalogue

Records from Intute catalogue

Embed search box

• Intute-Lite: a simple way to search the Intute catalogue from your website with only a basic knowledge of HTML

• Intute-Include: more sophisticated search options made available through your own Web pages

• Windows version of Include under testing

Creating customised e-resource listsUse MyIntute to• Create your own account • Save records • Tag records with your own keywords• Export data into your web pages• Get automatic updates• Choose from Intute and add your own

resources

Using Intute RSS feeds

• Put dynamic Intute content on your site

• Latest Intute resources, news headlines

• Customise for your subject area

Contributing Resources

• 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

Leeds University Library

“MyIntute has offered us an easy and effective way of promoting quality assured websites to our students”

Martin Gill, Faculty Team leader, University of Leeds Library

Where do I find the integrating package?

http://www.intute.ac.uk/integration/

• Quick Guides• Intute help pages

Find examples of integration in del.icio.us at

http://del.icio.us/angejoyce/integration/

Integration Exemplars.

• University of Leeds

• Other exemplars sought

• Quick Guide explains how to become an exemplar

• List of exemplars on handout

Questions?

Demo of MyIntute

Contact details

Jackie Wickham

Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk

0115 8230536