Introducing Intute: Health and Life Sciences

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Introducing Intute Health and Life Sciences

• Your guide to the Best of the Web
• www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences

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Solving the frustrations of the Internet

• Internet is a powerful tool for education and
  research
• Internet provides a range of educational
  resources to augment 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 Health and Life Sciences is a free,
  national Internet service aimed at higher and
  further education, providing the very best web
  resources for teaching, learning 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

• The Intute Network is
• A consortium of seven universities
• 70 partner institutions providing subject
  expertise and advice
• Created by the community for the community

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Intute Health and Life Sciences Partners

• University of Nottingham (host institution)
• HONNI
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• MIDIRS
• Oxford University
• Royal Veterinary College
• Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
• Royal College of Nursing
• University of the West of England, Bristol
• Wellcome Trust

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Finding the Best of the Web

• Search the catalogue
• Over 31,000 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

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Finding the Best of the Web

• Harvester to broaden your searches
• Searches for health and life science related
  pages
• Automatically generated from the web addresses in
  the main Intute catalogue
• Updated monthly

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Finding the Best of the Web

• Browse the catalogue by controlled keywords
• MeSH medicine, nursing, midwifery and allied
  health, biological research, bioethics, medical
  history, public engagement with science
• CAB veterinary, agriculture, food and forestry
• RCN nursing, midwifery and allied health
• Browse the catalogue by subject headings
• Natural History and Psci-com both utilise
  classification schedules and broad subject
  headings

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We also recommend

• Additional services
• Hot Topics
• MedHist Events database
• News aggregation service

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Personalise

• My Intute
• 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 and self-paced
• 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 to Intute Health and Life Sciences
• Presentation
• Best of the Web booklets for agriculture and
  healthcare
• Welcome to adapt and reuse in your own
  institution

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Content for the Community

• Integrate Intute content
• Intute Health and Life 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 Health and Life Sciences

• We welcome feedback from the subject community,
  please feel free to contact us
• healthandlifesciences_at_intute.ac.uk