I agree. The idea behind Intute was great bit it lived several years longer than was really justified. The job of providing a quality-controlled catalogue to sufficient internet resources over a wide enough subject spread to stimulate a growing set of repeat visitors, is just too expensive for JISC to afford. What we as people, students and/or academics have shown is that we prefer unmediated access to as much information as possible, with a world class and continually improving relevance ranking scheme. Step forward Google et al. We like to judge the quality ourselves!
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On 2 Sep 2010, at 13:10, Derek Law wrote:
> As one of the ageing suits who chaired committees which set up most of these services, I agree
> with Andy and Charles. JISC has a brilliant record of starting things off, setting them up,
> then giving them the space and time to become viable. If they don't the result is
> inevitable. I know this from bitter experience. The BUBL service here at Strathclyde was
> cut off after many years of funding.
> Nothing is forever. We need to learn the lessons and move on not moan that it's unfair
> Derek Law
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> The service was not USED enough and therefore could not justify its cost to JISC. JISC should not be in the business of subsidising services which aren't being used or appreciated. One might speculate as to why Intute (I agree a really silly name) was used so little, and that's where lessons can indeed be learned.
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> Charles
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