The best of the web: Intute launched today
Intute - the new face of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) - is launched at an event today at the Wellcome Trust in London. Intute is a free national service enabling lecturers, researchers and students to discover and access quality Internet resources. Intute supports education and research by promoting the most intelligent use of the Internet.
Caroline Williams, Executive Director of Intute, said: "The environment in which we operate is rapidly changing. Issues of trust and quality are real concerns for our users, and we have responded to this by creating a new service which takes the best of the RDN and streamlines it into one easy to use interface. The Intute database makes it possible to discover the best and most relevant resources on the Internet. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured that it has been evaluated by subject specialists.”
Intute is hosted by MIMAS at The University of Manchester, and is a collaboration between a whole host of partners and contributors. At the heart of the organisation is a consortium of seven universities, bringing together a wealth of expertise and knowledge. Intute is funded by Jisc, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The collaborating institutions are the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol, Heriot Watt University, The University of Manchester, ManchesterMetropolitan University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Oxford.
Intute is freely available at: Intute