Introducing Intute: Social Sciences

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Introducing Intute Social Sciences

• Your Guide to the Best of the Web
• www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences

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Solving the Frustrations of the Internet

• Internet can be a powerful tool for education and
  research, offering a huge range of resources and
  services
• However issues of trust, quality and poor search
  skills are very real and significant concerns
  particularly in education and research contexts
• Intute Social Sciences is a FREE, national
  Internet service to provide you with access to
  the very best web resources for education and
  research

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Network of Specialists

• Arts and Humanities (based at Oxford University
  and Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Health and Life Sciences (based at Nottingham
  University)
• Science, Engineering and Technology (based at The
  University of Manchester and Heriot-Watt
  University)
• Social Sciences (based at the Universities of
  Bristol and Birmingham)
• Virtual Training Suite (based at the University
  of Bristol)
• Executive (based at The University of Manchester)

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Network of Specialists

• Intute Network is made up of
• Consortium of seven universities
• Over 70 partner institutions providing subject
  expertise and advice
• By the community for the community

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Intute Social Sciences Partners

• Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative
  Studies (Hospitality and Tourism)
• British Library of Political and Economic Science
  (Politics and Government)
• British Society for Sports History (Sport and
  Leisure Practice)
• The Psychology Network, University of York
  (Psychology)
• Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (Law)
• National Womens Library (Womens Studies)
• Rotherham College (Hospitality, Sports and
  Leisure Practice, Tourism)
• Sheffield Hallam University (Hospitality, Sport
  Leisure Practice Tourism)
• University of Bradford Library (Social Welfare)
• University of Edinburgh Data Library (Statistics)
• University of Exeter Library (Social Science
  General)
• University of Manchester Library (Anthropology)
• University of Newcastle Library (Business)
• University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
  (Sociology)

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Finding the Best of the Web

• Search the catalogue
• Over 30,000 records, each one selected and
  described by a subject specialist
• Simple keyword or phrase searching
• Refine search by field name or type of resource
• Use controlled vocabularies to look for
  alternative terms

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Finding the Best of the Web

• Harvester to broaden your searches
• Searches over 300,000 social science related
  pages
• Automatically generated from the web addresses in
  the main Internet Catalogue
• Updated monthly

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Finding the Best of the Web

• Browse the catalogue by subject
• 1500 subject headings in 19 top level subject
  sections
• Link from each subject to research tools and
  methods section
• Ordered by title or date added to the catalogue

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We Also Recommend

• Additional services
• Find conferences and events
• Contacts for UK University Departments
• News aggregation service
• Current awareness service (Editors Blog)

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Personalise

• MyIntute
• Create your own account
• Save searches and records
• Tag records with your own keywords
• Weekly email alerts
• Export data into your systems and sites

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Supporting Internet Training

• Virtual Training Suite
• FREE online Internet training tutorials for over
  65 subject areas
• Internet search and research skills
• Teach yourself
• Quizzes and interactive exercises

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Supporting Internet Training

• Seminars
• An overview of the Web for research and education
• An insight into leading Internet services for the
  subject area
• Hands-on sessions with plenty of help at hand
• Worksheets and ideas to take away and use for
  teaching Internet research skills or for
  developing your own skills

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Supporting Internet Training

• FREE support materials
• Leaflet
• Quick Guide
• Presentation
• Best of the Web booklets
• Welcome to adapt and reuse in your own institution

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Content for the Community

• Integrate Intute content
• Intute Social Sciences 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/

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Intute Social Sciences
We welcome feedback from the subject community,
please feel free to contact us www.intute.ac.uk/s
ocialsciences/feedback.html