10 March 2007

SUBJECT GUIDES TO WEB SOURCES IN THE UK


Booklets (in pdf format) with selected and annotated web sites (mostly in the UK) are available from Intute. Intute exists to help students, teachers, researchers and librarians make sense of the Web by providing access to the very best Internet resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 115948 records. It is funded by JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) with support from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It was formerly known as the RDN (Resource Discovery Network).

Subjects:
Science and Engineering: Chemistry, computing, environmental engineering, and physics
Arts and Humanities: archaeology, fashion and beauty, religion and theology, and visual arts
Social Sciences: business and tourism, law, social research, and social welfare
Health and Life Sciences: agriculture, food and forestry, animal health, healthcare and medicine, and physiotherapy and orthopaedics

Sample contents
Law: general law, legal information gateways, educational materials, organizations; UK law, EU law, other jurisdictions, international law, law by subject area.
Healthcare and medicine: online education and teaching materials, factual databases, bibliographic information, electronic journals, books and full-text documents, news and discussion, patient information, clinical resources, professional organisations

URL: http://www.intute.ac.uk/

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