University of Nottingham - Intute (United Kingdom)

URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

The University of Nottingham is an international research-led institution, offering an exceptional research and teaching environment and is consistently ranked in the top ten universities for the quality of its teaching research and facilities. Nottingham has over 27,000 students of whom 5,500 are postgraduate students, and around 2,200 postgraduate researchers.

Information Services is responsible for the management and development of the University’s information technology infrastructure and for most central information and computing systems; and for library services. The service structure contains, among others, the Intute: Health and Life Sciences Team (formerly THE RESOURCE DISCOVERY NETWORK RDN) is the UK’s free national gateway to Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. It was launched on 13th July 2006 and replaces the RDN. The service links to tens of thousands of Web resources and is presented in four subject groups. These resources have been carefully selected, reviewed and described by subject specialists for their high quality content. Additional value-added services such as the Virtual Training Suite, a set of free Internet skills tutorials, and the Case Studies, which give ideas for incorporating Internet resources into teaching and learning, complement these Internet Guides and help users get the most from the Web in their subject area.

Intute is a collaboration of seven key institutions plus over 70 additional educational and research organisations. The work is co-ordinated by the Intute Executive at MIMAS. Intute is primarily funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). BIOME was the Health and Life Sciences Hub of the RDN, and is now Intute: Health and Life Sciences. The Agriculture, Food and Forestry section is provided in partnership with the University of Oxford and other freelance contributors.

Intute is recognised in the UK as an expert in metadata creation and is leading a major JISC project in developing a search facility across institutional repositories.

Intute will be mainly involved in the content population WP, creating, populating and deploying the Intute learning repository of Organic.Edunet; and will also participate in the dissemination & exploitation activities, by organising a dissemination event in UK and by supporting the network with affiliated/interested content publishers.

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