Intute Social Welfare Resources

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Intute Social Welfare Resources

• Internet for Social Welfare Seminar 2007
• Angela Joyce
• University of Bristol

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Who are we?

• Intute Social Sciences is a FREE, national
  Internet service to provide you with access to
  the best web resources for education and research
• Funded by ESRC and JISC

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The way we were
Arts and Humanities Health Life Sciences
Science, Technology, Engineering Geography
Social Sciences Virtual Training Suite
Executive
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Types of resources

• Bibliographic databases
• Government bodies
• News services
• Journals (abstracts and full text)
• Organisations and associations
• Research projects
• Datasets
• and more

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How do we work?

• Section Editors
• Francis Owtram
• (HEA SWAP)
• Lauraine McCosh,
• Susan Pitts
• (University of Bradford)

www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/socialwelfare/prof
ile.html
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Browsing Social Welfare

• 23 sub-categories
• Editors Choice
• View new resources
• Related sections across Intute
• Filtering and sorting

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Searching Social Welfare

• Over 2,100 records
• Simple keyword or phrase searching
• Advanced searching
• Harvester reaches more pages
• Or search across Intute

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Sample searches

• 1. social work practice 111 hits,
• social work practice 11 hits, 37 in Harvester
• 2. lone parent families 9 hits, 32 in Harvester

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New services to your desktop

• Create your own account (MyIntute)
• Email alerts for Social Welfare subjects
• RSS feeds of conferences, new social welfare
  resources
• Tag sites from searches
• Embed Intute in your website

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How can I use Intute Social Welfare?

• Research on policies
• Find educational materials
• Find suitable journals
• Point students to VTS tutorials
• (e.g.. Social Worker, Social Policy)

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How can I use Intute Social Welfare? (2)

• Find conferences and events
• Bookmark social welfare news sites
• News aggregation service
• Network using email lists
• Read the subject blog
• Contact us and also spread the word ?

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The End!
Thank you! Angela.Joyce_at_bristol.ac.uk