1. Introducing Intute: Social Sciences Your Guide to the Best of the Web

2. Solving the Frustrations of the Internet Internet can be a powerful tool for education and research, offering a huge range of resources and services However issues of trust, quality and poor search skills are very real and significant concerns – particularly in education and research contexts Intute: Social Sciences is a FREE, national Internet service to provide you with access to the best web resources for education and research

3. Network of Specialists Intute Network is made up of: Consortium of seven universities Over 70 partner institutions providing subject expertise and advice By the community for the community

4. Intute: Social Sciences Partners Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies (Hospitality) British Library of Political and Economic Science (Politics and Government) British Society for Sports History (Sports, Leisure and Tourism) The Psychology Network, University of York (Psychology) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (Law) National Women’s Library (Women’s Studies) Rotherham College (Hospitality, Sports and Leisure Practice, Tourism) Sheffield Hallam University (Hospitality) University of Bradford Library (Social Welfare) University of Edinburgh Data Library (Statistics) University of Exeter Library (Research Tools and Methods) University of Manchester Library (Anthropology) University of Surrey, Department of Sociology (Sociology)

6. Finding the Best of the Web Search the catalogue Over 33,000 records, each one selected and described by a subject specialist Simple keyword or phrase searching Refine search by field name or type of resource Use controlled vocabularies to look for alternative terms

7. Types of resources Bibliographic databases Government publications Legislation Journals (abstracts and full text) Organisations and associations Research projects Datasets Statistical tests …

9. Finding the Best of the Web Harvester to broaden your searches Searches over 300,000 social science related pages Automatically generated from the web addresses in the main Internet Catalogue Updated monthly

10. Finding the Best of the Web Browse the catalogue by subject 1500 subject headings in 18 top level subject sections Link from each subject to research tools and methods section Ordered by title or date added to the catalogue

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13. Personalise My Intute Create your own account Save searches and records Tag records with your own keywords Weekly email alerts Create reading lists Export data into your systems and sites

15. Content for the Community Embedding in Your Institution Intute: Social Sciences content and services are available for use in your own institution or website Advice on how to use our content available from: www.intute.ac.uk/workingwith.html

16. Intute: Social Sciences We welcome feedback from the subject community, please feel free to contact us: www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/feedback.html