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News Archive for 2008

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Internet Librarian International 2008
28 July 2008
Intute is a platinum sponsor of the Internet Librarian International 2008 conference to be held in London on the 16th and 17th October 2008 - please come and meet us in the Sponsors’ ...
New dates for TASI workshops announced
28 July 2008
TASI has just released details of our training workshops for September to December 2008. Full details are available on the Training page
Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2008 Pilot
23 July 2008
The pilot Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) will be run via the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) service by the Higher Education Academy together with HE institutions, to explore students' ...
Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) 2009
23 July 2008
CROS is to be revised in the light of the new Concordat published in June. The Concordat cited CROS as a significant tool to aid evaluation and benchmarking. The Steering Group met on 17th July and ...
The legacy of Hadrian in the Limelight
22 July 2008
Hadrian's Wall To coincide with the opening of the new exhibition at the British Museum the latest Limelights from Intute: Arts and Humanities examine the best of the Web about Hadrian’s ...
Recent updates to TASI advice
22 July 2008
We've recently updated the following advice documents: Generic Image Workflow: TASI Recommended Best Practice for Digitisation Projects; Image Capture: Hardware and Software; An Overview of Colour ...
Spotlight science magazine for July
08 July 2008
The July issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has ...
Brand new reviews of audio and moving image search engines
04 July 2008
Following the recent update to our review of image search engines, we have just published our first ever reviews of moving image search engines and audio search engines. These new reviews use the ...
TASI Web site redevelopment survey
17 June 2008
TASI is a JISC Advisory Service. For the last ten years we have provided advice, guidance and training to the UK further and higher education sector on technical issues relating to digitisation and ...
Euthanasia, a philosophical viewpoint
12 June 2008
Intute: Arts and Humanities’ latest Limelight examines the emotive issue of euthanasia from a philosophical viewpoint.
Spotlight science magazine for June
11 June 2008
The June issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has ...
Using Flickr to organise a collection of images
05 June 2008
TASI has just published a new advice document, Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images. Whether you have a small number of photographs you would like to share privately with a few colleagues, ...
New sports events sections
04 June 2008
The Sport and Leisure Practice section of Intute: Social Sciences has recently been updated to include a new section for Multisport events resources. The events are split into National and ...
Limelight: Castles in Wales
14 May 2008
The latest Limelight from Intute: Arts and Humanities provides links to valuable Internet resources about castles built in Wales during the rule of the English king Edward I. Image of Rhuddlan ...
Spotlight - May issue
12 May 2008
The May issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has ...
Endangered languages in the Limelight
02 May 2008
The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is about “Endangered languages”. This has been published to coincide with annual Endangered Languages week (30 April ...
Fully updated review of image search engines
02 May 2008
TASI has just released its fourth review of image search engines. This fully updated report critically evaluates and compares all the main image search engines. TASI used the same set of search terms ...
Changes to TASI phone numbers
02 May 2008
Please note that from Monday 5th May 2008 some of TASI's telephone numbers are changing. The main change is to the TASI Helpdesk number which will be: 0117 331 4447. The TASI Helpdesk email address ...
Minor maintenance work Tues 29th April
28 April 2008
Minor maintenance work will be carried out on the Intute database during the JANET "at risk" period (07.00-09.00 BST) which may result in the search functionality not working as expected ...
Limelight on videogames
24 April 2008
The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is Researching videogames with Intute. This provides an extensive view of the study of videogames using sources found freely on the ...
Intute HLS exhibiting at RCN Congress
24 April 2008
Intute: Health and Life Sciences will be exhibiting at the Royal College of Nursing annual Congress in Bournemouth, from 28th-30th April. They can be found at stand 125 in the Purbeck Hall on the ...
Student Competition 2008 Results
24 April 2008
Many thanks to each of the 44 students who sent entries to our competition. The award winners have been decided and are all named on the linked page. Congratulations to all of them.
Maintenance Work Tues April 22nd
17 April 2008
There will be some minor maintenance work on the Intute database during the JANET “at risk” period 07.00-09.00 (BST) Tues 22nd April. Apologies for any inconvenience this may ...
Libraries of the Future
16 April 2008
JISC launched a new campaign called “Libraries of the Future” at the 2008 JISC Conference this week - and invites involvement from the higher and further education community- ...
Terrorism in the Limelight
16 April 2008
April 16, anniversary of the killing by Red Brigades of Senator Roberto Ruffilli in Forlì, Italy, (an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita), 1988 April 18, anniversary of the suicide bombing of ...
Intute Repository Search moves to new search engine
14 April 2008
Intute Repository Search (IRS), which provides a search across UK institutional repositories, has now moved over to a completely new search engine based on an enterprise level search server called ...
Intute events in South West
09 April 2008
University, college and library staff in the South West (UK)  interested in finding out more about Intute and Internet research skills might be interested in attending the following events ...
April Spotlight
09 April 2008
The April issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has ...
Vacancy: TASI Marketing Officer (Part-time)
08 April 2008
TASI has a vacancy for a part-time Marketing Officer. You will lead and implement TASI's marketing strategy and activities to promote TASI within the UK's Further and Higher Education communities and ...
Intute at JISC Conference 2008
07 April 2008
Intute staff will be running an exhibition stand at the JISC Conference 2008 on April 15th and would be delighted to meet any delegates wishing to find out about the latest innovations of the ...
Vacancies: TASI Technical Support Officers - Moving Images
02 April 2008
TASI has two vacancies for TASI Technical Support Officers - Moving Images. You will support the UK's Further and Higher Education communities in the creation, management and use/reuse of digital ...
New Intute subject booklets
01 April 2008
Eight new Intute subject booklets have been published this month, each providing a “taster” of the scholarly Internet resources that can be found by using Intute. Print copies of ...
April Fool
01 April 2008
The blog from Intute: Arts and Humanities and the new Limelight article provide some interesting reading on this April Fool’s Day, and beyond… art and archaeology fakes and ...
Vacancies: TASI Technical Support Officers - Sound Resources
01 April 2008
Based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, these two posts will support the UK's Further and Higher Education communities in the creation, management and use/reuse of digital sound ...
Economics Podcasts from the Royal Economic Society
19 March 2008
Intute: Social Sciences has been featuring a series of podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008 that includes a range of interviews with researchers in economics talking about ...
Sacred Texts in the Limelight
19 March 2008
The latest Intute: Arts and Humanities Limelight features the British Library’s website ‘Sacred‘, which accompanied an exhibition in 2007 on the common ground of ...
Egyptology in the Limelight
18 March 2008
Intute: Arts and Humanities has recently published online a Limelight feature for Egyptology resources.
New TASI workshop dates announced
18 March 2008
TASI has just announced new dates for our most poular workshops. Full details of all TASI workshops and the online booking form are available from the Training page. Don't forget, you can now ...
Vacancy: TASI eLearning Officer
17 March 2008
TASI has a vacancy for an eLearning Officer. You will provide advice and support to the UK's Further and Higher Education communities in the use of digital resources (images, moving images and sound) ...
Survey of Economics Students in the UK
17 March 2008
The Economics Network is running its fourth biennial on-line Students Survey from 13 th of February until the 30 th April. Please do encourage all your undergraduate and postgraduate students to ...
Favourite blogs: What kind of week has it been?
14 March 2008
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 7th -16th March, Intute: Social Sciences has been featuring a series of articles by our subject editors presenting their favourite blogs. Today Paul ...
Vacancy: Metadata Advocacy Officer
13 March 2008
This exciting post gives the opportunity for developing your interests and expertise in digital resource management. You will work with media creators and depositors, systems suppliers and expert ...
New advice: Digital SLRs; Budget cameras; Raw file format
11 March 2008
TASI has just published three new advice documents: The Digital SLR Camera for Teaching, Learning and Digitisation; Using a Budget Digital Camera for Teaching, Learning and Research; The Camera Raw ...
March issue of Spotlight science magazine
10 March 2008
The March issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available on Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical ...
Focus On - two new Intute: Health and Life Sciences publications launched today
10 March 2008
Intute: Health and Life Sciences have today launched two new free publications - the first in our new 'Focus On…' series. These online resource guides aim to provide useful, detailed, high quality ...
Over 700 new records in Intute: Aerospace and Defence Engineering
06 March 2008
The Intute: Aerospace and Defence Engineering section has been recently updated with over 700 new records added. The records link to resources such as websites, specialist databases, full-text ...
Our Favourite Social Science Blogs
06 March 2008
Starting tomorrow, Friday the 7th of March, Our Favourite Social Science Blogs is a week long exploration of the social science blogosphere - why not come along and sample some of our favourites, ...
2008 Learning and Teaching in Economics Awards
03 March 2008
The Economics Network is pleased to invite nominations from the economics community for our annual learning and teaching awards. The national awards are open to UK-based academics who have ...
Internet research skills for a Web 2.0 World
26 February 2008
A 30 minute video of my Intute presentation “Helping students develop Internet research skills for a Web 2.0 World“  is now available online. This was given at the E-learning ...
Economics Network Learning and Teaching Development Projects 2008-2009
26 February 2008
Proposals are invited from the UK Economics community for small projects up to the value of 5000 pounds to be funded by the Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy. Projects will address ...
Two Workshops: Teaching Development Economics and Threshold Concepts
25 February 2008
The Economics Network has announced two one-day workshops to take place in May. On Thursday 15th, "Using Threshold Concepts to plan teaching and assessment in Economics" will show ...
Sustainability Project Call for Bids
15 February 2008
The HE Academy invites applications for the funding of mini-grants designed to develop small-scale work in one or more of the following areas: 1) Explore links between employability and ...
What can we learn from digitisation projects?
11 February 2008
When planning a digitisation project it pays to look at some of the common issues encountered by completed projects. TASI has reviewed and extensively updated 'Lessons learned from digitisation ...
Digitisation service providers
17 January 2008
TASI has recently added a new page looking at Digitisation Services, to complement our existing Useful Links to Imaging Manufacturers, Suppliers, Products and Services. TASI contacted a number of ...
UK Universities Institutional Repositories search project
16 January 2008
The Intute Institutional Repository Search of UK university research paper databases is to be launched in beta at the end of January.  Content deposited in institutional repositories is growing, ...
Extra copyright workshop due to popular demand
14 January 2008
Due to popular demand, TASI has just added an extra workshop date for Rights and Responsibilities: Copyright and Digital Images. The extra date is Thursday 24th April 2008.
New issues of IREE and CHEER journals
10 January 2008
Both of the Economics Network's peer-reviewed journals published new issues at the end of 2007. Volume 19 of Computers in Higher Education Economics Review and volume 6 number 2 of International ...
Student Essay Competition 2008
10 January 2008
The Economics Network is now accepting entries for its Student Essay Award, with a deadline of 28th March. The competition is open to all UK undergraduates and postgraduates in Economics. We are ...
Survey of Economics Students in the UK
10 January 2008
The Economics Network is running its fourth biennial on-line Students Survey from 13 th of February until the 31 st March. Please do encourage all your undergraduate and postgraduate students to ...
Image management software
09 January 2008
To support our advice on systems for managing image collections, TASI has carried out a detailed survey of image management software developers/vendors. We surveyed a wide range of different systems ...