Intute Update
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Update on Intute
Your guide to the Best of the Web
JISC RSC South West Web conference,
26 November 2008
Angela Joyce, ILRT, University of Bristol
What are Intute & the Virtual Training Suite? 2 FREE related services
• Intute is a free, national Internet service aimed primarily at higher education, providing the very best web resources for teaching, learning and research - and funded by JISC
• The Virtual Training Suite is a free service which provides online Internet tutorials, for over 65 subjects. Also funded by JISC as part of the Intute service
Intute homepage
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Who are we?
The Intute Network is:
• A consortium of seven universities
• 70 partner institutions providing subject expertise and advice
• Created by the community for the community
How we work:
Intute is primarily funded for H.E. but all services freely accessible for F.E.
• Central management is at MIMAS, Manchester
• Distributed staff around the UK give technical support and edit the Intute database; they run additional services; authors write the VTS tutorials
Our target audiences
• Primary audience is H.E. students
and…• F.E into H.E. , F.E• Lecturers• E-learning
professionals• Researchers• Librarians
Intute catalogue
Search/browse Intute catalogue
• Over 123,000 records, each one hand selected and described by a subject specialist
• Simple or Advanced searching options with tips
• Browsing of sections - popular
Subjects offered
• Something for nearly everyone
• From music to management, or nursing to nuclear physics!
• 4 subject groups will go – move to more ‘granular’ approach at subject level, e.g.. Intute: Law
Supporting Internet Training
Virtual Training Suite - http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
• Free online Internet training tutorials for over 65 subject areas
• Currently being updated with new template & emphasis
Supporting Internet Training (2)
Use our free support materialshttp://www.intute.ac.uk/support.html
• Quick Guides to Intute
• PPT Presentations
• Best of the Web booklets – online versions
JISC findings – library/LRCs (1)
• The JISC Attitudinal Survey 2008 pinpoints e-Resources/electronic content as key challenge in F.E. & H.E.
• Information skills/information literacy also a priority
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/attitudinalsurvey2008librariansreport.pdf
JISC findings – students and ICT
Great Expectations reporthttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/greatexpectations.aspx
• ‘There is also an opportunity to help students understand best practice for checking the validity of internet sources used for research, something which 69% of students believe they are doing despite evidence elsewhere suggesting they may lack the critical and analytical skills to do so rigorously.’
Intute is evolving• New plan 2008-2012 - to respond to
changes in education and online usage, e.g.:– More direct marketing to students– Enhanced search system– More granular structure for resources
Recent market research & usability testing…
• FDS consultancy – market research
• Pure Usability – testing of main site and integration services
• VTS survey
Awareness of various websites - Students
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Project Merlot
OCLC Firstsearch
BUBL
EDNA
Zetoc
EDINA
Intute
IBSS
Copac
Scirus
PubMed
Institute of Physics
ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science
National Library for Health
Google Scholar
Google Images
BBC
Wikipedia
Postgrads (51)
HE Student (61)
FE Student (105)
0% 5% 10% 15% 20%
Intute
Usability testing 2008
On-site & remote testing conducted• Liked Intute concept• Wanted some improvements• Findings will feed into website re-
design & new subject-based approach. Eg. Intute: Law, Intute: Veterinary
We also offer
Additional Services
• Intute blogs – keep updated
• Intute Repository Search for papers http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/
• Intute Helpdesk – email us comments, suggestions
PersonaliseMy Intute • Create your own account
• Save searches and records, plus non-Intute
• Tag records with your own keywords
• Weekly email alerts
• Export data into your websites or VLEs
MyIntute tag cloud
Content for the CommunityIntegrating Intute content• Intute content and services are available for
use in your own institution or website
• Advice on how to use our content available from:
www.intute.ac.uk/integration/
• Quick Guides at:
http://www.intute.ac.uk/integrationguides/
Example of newsfeed…
http://mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmamj/
Intute on UsPaCe…
http://www.uspace.org.uk/blog/
Intute plug-in gadget
Blackboard at City of Bristol College
MyIntute used to import dentistry sites
University of Exeter
http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/intute-i/
More Integration Examples
• See our del.icio.us page athttp://del.icio.us/angejoyce/integration/
• See our Exemplars athttp://www.intute.ac.uk/integration/exemplars/
Finally….
We welcome feedback from the community. Please feel free to contact us:
www.intute.ac.uk/feedback.html
Thank you!