what is intute

[Kapil Agrawal]

what is intute ? explain

[Varsha Malik]

INTRODUCTION

        Intute is a free online service that helps you to find web resources for your studies and research. With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. We have reviewed and evaluated thousands of resources to help you choose key websites in your subject.

         In July 2010, our funding was significantly reduced. We have funding to maintain our resource catalogue until the end of July 2011, and the Virtual Training Suite and Informs will be investigating moving to a membership model.

 

HISTORY OF INTUTE

    

               Beginning life as a grass roots community of information professionals working on individual projects, Intute was the result of years of evolution and development.Our origins lie in the 1996 Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme, where a number of librarians and researchers won JISC funding to develop their ideas for new Internet gateway services. Later these subject services joined together to create the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).

              In 2003, we found a new home within Mimas at The University of Manchester, and a new phase of developments began. In response to user needs and the changing environment, Intute was launched in 2006; a single organisation with a unified culture, interface, technological platform and identity.Intute was created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners.

 

                        The Intute consortium was:

• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• Heriot-Watt University
• The University of Manchester
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• University of Nottingham
• University of Oxford

[Kapil Agrawal]

good answer madam thanks