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The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) has launched a new
service called RDN-include. This allows ResourceFinder, the
RDN search engine, to be added free of charge to higher and
further education institutions' Web sites.
The great value of this new service is that students and
staff can now use the RDN search facilities and discover
high-quality Web resources while remaining within the
familiar look-and-feel of their university or college's Web
site. It also means that users can now access the resources
that their own institution provides alongside those that
are nationally-provided, such as the RDN's, adding value to
both sets of resources.
Over the last few years the RDN has built up a strong
reputation within further and higher education through the
quality of its work in discovering, cataloguing and making
available high-quality Web resources for the benefit of
learning and teaching. We currently give access to around
35,000 Web resources all of which are hand-picked by
subject specialists, quality-assured and freely available
to all within further and higher Education in the UK. Both
research and the experience of many suggest that this is a
service that is needed more than ever as students and staff
become more and more familiar with Information Technology
and the Internet and its uses to support their work.
RDN-include is an important development in that it will
bring the RDN and its services to educational institutions
themselves, enabling users to access quality-assured
resources within a familiar Web environment. Manchester
Metropolitan University currently use RDN-include (see back
page of enclosed leaflet) on their institutional Web site
and their staff and students have found it of great benefit
in accessing high-quality Web resources.
Further details are available from:
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/rdn-i/
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Dr Philip Pothen
DNER/RDN Communications Manager,
JISC DNER Office,
King's College London,
Strand Bridge House,
3rd Floor,
138-142 The Strand,
London WC2R 1HH
Tel: 020 7848 2935
Mobile: 07887 564 006
Fax: 020 7848 2939
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