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Creating web guides for a library portal
Jackie Wickham – [email protected]
Martin Gill – University of [email protected]
Introduction
Case Study – how the University of Leeds integrated Intute resources and services to create its subject guides to electronic resources.
Presentation Outline
What is Intute Intute’s Integration services Background to Case Study Implemetation Results and benefits
What is Intute
Intute is a national Internet service guiding you to useful Web resources for education and research.
It offers an online catalogue and interactive subject tutorials.
It is a free service aimed at the UK’s higher and further education sectors and is relevant to students, lecturers, researchers and teachers.
Intute was formerly known as the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).
Funded nationally by the JISC
Network of specialists
Four subject groups comprise Intute: Arts and Humanities Health and Life Sciences Science, Engineering and
Technology Social Sciences Hand selected, quality assured
content – Best of the Web
The big headache!
Too many resources on Net
Keeping up to date with new ones
Link checking existing content
Assuring quality of resources
How Intute can help
Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources
Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources
Create your reading
lists from Intute
resources
Create your reading
lists from Intute
resources
List latest resources added to
Intute, on your library Webpage
List latest resources added to
Intute, on your library Webpage
Integrate the Intute Search Box
Search results
RSS feeds
Creating customised e-resource lists
Use MyIntute to Create your own account Save records Tag records with your own keywords Export data into your web pages Get automatic updates Choose from Intute and add your own
resources
Customised e-resource lists
Links imported into blog from MyIntute using Javascript
A link to a resource not in Intute but added by the user in MyIntute.
Leeds in the mid 1990’s
Pre Google Yahoo was a directory site Subject gateways in their infancy
Developed a ROADS database to list subject databases and websites
Broken down to a subject or even module level
2006
Server needed replacement Software no longer supported Database indexes full
Workload issues of maintaining links Databases now integrated into our
catalogue Wanted to avoid flat webpages of links
Approached RDN as they were re-launching as Intute for advice
Pilot Project
To use MyIntute to embed Intute records in our website
Sample subjects: Education, Law, Engineering, Dentistry, East Asian Studies
Looked at: Workload Availability of Intute records Technical integration
Project results
Workload MyIntute very quick and easy to use
Availability of records Most subjects had few problems Searching Intute found us better websites in
many cases Some issues of scope, some language issues
Technical integration Accessibility issues
Intute Search BoxIntute Search Box
Records from Intute catalogue
Records from Intute catalogue
IntuteRSS Feeds
IntuteRSS Feeds
Cost savings (estimated)
No server replacement (£2k) No software purchased (£10-20k) Minimal systems development
(£10k) No link checking, no content
checking
Working with Intute
Very helpful and flexible Accessibility issues addressed Local resources – MyNonIntute
records
2007
MyIntute rolled out to all subjects Replaced our general website
listings ROADS server decommissioned
Questions?