Intute is a free web service aimed at students, teachers and researchers in UK for higher education.
Intute provides access to online resources via a large database of resources.
Please visit : www.intute.ac.uk
Intute is a free online service that helps you to find web resources for your studies and research. Intute was created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners. The Intute consortium was:
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
Intute is a free web service for the discovery of academic Internet based information.they also offer tools for developing Internet research skills for academic work.
The service is run by a consortium of universities in the UK, with input from academic and library staff across the country.
It is funded by JISC.
Intute exists to enable students in Higher Education to use the Internet discerningly in order to quickly and easily discover academic resources of direct relevance to their immediate study and ongoing development
Intute is a free Web service aimed at students, teachers, and researchers in UK further education and higher education. Intute provides access to online resources, via a large database of resources. Each resource is reviewed by an academic specialist in the subject, who writes a short review of between 100 to 200 words, and describes via various metadata fields (such as which subject discipline(s) it will be useful to) what type of resource it is, who created it, who its intended audience is, what time-period or geographical area the resource covers, and so on. In July 2010 Intute provided 123,519 records.
History of Intute
Intute was formed in July 2006 after the merger of the eight semi-autonomous "hubs" that formed the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). These hubs each served particular academic disciplines:
Altis - Hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism
Artifact - Arts and creative industries
Biome - Health and life sciences
EEVL - Engineering, mathematics, and computing
GEsource - Geography and the environment
Humbul - Humanities
PSIgate - Physical sciences
SOSIG - Social sciences
The restructuring and rebranding was undertaken to create a service with a more uniform identity and appearance, better cross-searching facilities, and more focused technical and management teams. As part of the restructuring, the eight RDN hubs were initially reorganised into four subject groups. This process also incorporated the Virtual Training Suite, a series of continually updated, free online Internet training tutorials for over 65 subject areas.
The Intute service was geographically distributed, with staff based at several UK universities.
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
In July 2010, funding for Intute was significantly reduced and the Consortium was disbanded. Intute is now wholly maintained by Mimas, The University of Manchester, and the Virtual Training Suite is maintained and developed by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at the University of Bristol.