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Altis Your Guide to Internet Resources in
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Steve
Hewett, Altis Manager
Online Resources for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport
Tourism University of Gloucestershire 23rd June
2004
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What is Altis?

• An educational search engine (freely available!)

• Primarily for HE/FE users

• Core service a database of more than 2,700
  records

• Additional services supporting teaching and
  learning

• A JISC-funded initiative

• Part of a national network the Resource
  Discovery Network

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Why do we need Altis?
the problem.
finding relevant, high quality and
authoritative information on the Internet
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Commercial search engines?

• Information overload!

• Trustworthiness of resources

• Unhelpful descriptions

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The Solution?
use of subject specialists to identify, assess
and describe high quality Internet resources
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Using Altis
Search the Altis database
Explore additional features, e.g. Whats New,
Learning Materials
Browse subject areas
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Hospitality Catering
Beverages
Wine
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Additional features
Whats New

• New records
• Altis News
• Jobs.ac.uk

Learning Materials

• Virtual Training Suite Tutorials
• Altis Case Studies

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Coming soon

• An cross search facility

• A tailored e-mail alerting service

• Database of current research?

• Events database?

• Sport Leisure Index database
• www.altis.ac.uk/sli

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Topics covered include .
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Many abstracts
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The Resource Discovery Network
Eight subject Gateways

• SOSIG Social Sciences

• Humbul Humanities

• EEVL Engineering, Maths Computing

• PsiGate Physical Sciences

• GESource Geography Environment

• Biome Health Life Sciences

• ArtIfact Arts Creative Industries

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ResourceFinder
Additional services
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Contact us
Steve Hewett Altis Manager s.j.r.hewett_at_bham.ac.uk
0121 414 5841 Thank you