Dear all,
I would like to welcome you to the new Intute: Arts and Humanities
service. As you may know today (13 July) the Resource Discovery Network
(RDN) relaunches as Intute with a complete overhaul of its organisation
and online services. Intute: Arts and Humanities is one of four subject
groups in the new Intute and results from a merging of the Humbul
Humanities Hub and Artifact. Intute: Arts and Humanities is led by
Oxford University in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan
University. An official press release from Intute is included below.
As part of this reorganisation we have merged together the
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leaving or joining the list, at
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The new Web address for Intute: Arts and Humanities is
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities. If you maintain a website
which links to Humbul, Artifact or the Resource Discovery Network then
we would be grateful if you could update the links to point to the new
Intute Website. The Humbul and Artifact websites still remain but will
no longer be updated.
We would be very pleased to receive your comments and suggestions about
Intute: Arts and Humanities. Please feel free to send feedback the
Website at http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/feedback.html.
Please feel free to circulate this email within your institution and
subject associations.
Kind regards,
Shoshannah Holdom
Content Editor (Modern Languages)
Intute: Arts and Humanities
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Intute: the best of the Web
London. 13th July 2006. Intute is launched today at an event held at
the Wellcome Trust. Intute is the new face of the Resource Discovery
Network (RDN), and is a free national service enabling lecturers,
researchers and students to discover and access quality Internet
resources. Intute exists to advance 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." She explains, "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 the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), with support from the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC).
Intute is freely available at http://www.intute.ac.uk/
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Dr Shoshannah Holdom
Content Editor (Modern Languages)
Humbul Humanities Hub
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 273 260
Fax: 01865 273 275
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URL: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
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