Introducing
Intute: Social Sciences
Your Guide to the Best of the Web
Solving the Frustrations of
the Internet
• Internet can be a powerful tool for education
and research, offering a huge range of
resources and services
• However issues of trust, quality and poor
search skills are very real and significant
concerns – particularly in education and
research contexts
• Intute: Social Sciences is a FREE, national
Internet service to provide you with access to
the best web resources for education and
research
Network of Specialists
Intute Network is made up of:
• Consortium of seven universities
• Over 70 partner institutions providing
subject expertise and advice
• By the community for the community
Intute: Social Sciences
Partners
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies (Hospitality)
British Library of Political and Economic Science (Politics and Government)
British Society for Sports History (Sports, Leisure and Tourism)
The Psychology Network, University of York (Psychology)
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (Law)
National Women’s Library (Women’s Studies)
Rotherham College (Hospitality, Sports and Leisure Practice, Tourism)
Sheffield Hallam University (Hospitality)
University of Bradford Library (Social Welfare)
University of Edinburgh Data Library (Statistics)
University of Exeter Library (Research Tools and Methods)
University of Manchester Library (Anthropology)
University of Surrey, Department of Sociology (Sociology)
Finding the Best of the Web
Search the catalogue
• Over 33,000 records, each one selected
and described by a subject specialist
• Simple keyword or phrase searching
• Refine search by field name or type of
resource
• Use controlled vocabularies to look for
alternative terms
Types of resources
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Bibliographic databases
Government publications
Legislation
Journals (abstracts and full text)
Organisations and associations
Research projects
Datasets
Statistical tests
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Finding the Best of the Web
Harvester to broaden your searches
• Searches over 300,000 social science
related pages
• Automatically generated from the web
addresses in the main Internet
Catalogue
• Updated monthly
Finding the Best of the Web
Browse the catalogue by subject
• 1500 subject headings in 18 top level
subject sections
• Link from each subject to research tools
and methods section
• Ordered by title or date added to the
catalogue
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Additional services
• Find conferences and events
• Contacts for UK University Departments
• News aggregation service
• Current awareness service (Editors
Blog)
Personalise
My Intute
• Create your own account
• Save searches and records
• Tag records with your own keywords
• Weekly email alerts
• Create reading lists
• Export data into your systems and sites
Content for the Community
Embedding in Your Institution
• Intute: Social 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/workingwith.html
Intute: Social Sciences
We welcome feedback from the subject
community, please feel free to contact us:
www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/feedback.html