A Developing resource for West European studies

Intute European Studies Collection

What does Intute offer?

• Quality selected resources

• Links to a range of resources – collections of papers, multimedia

• Added descriptions of content

• Personalisation features (research alerts)

How is Intute created?

• Individual subject editors

• According to centralised content policies

• Using alerts, subject knowledge

• Adding key words from Thesauri eg IBSS

• Regular editing and reviewing procedures

Here is an example – French Elections 2007

Changing nature of elections

And finally our blog

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This is what it really looks like!

How does this compare with Google?

Looking in more detail at Google results

• French presidential election, 2007 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• The 2007 French presidential election, the ninth of the Fifth French Republic was held to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2007 - 324k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

• politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » French Presidential Election ...

• 19 Apr 2007 ... 114 comments to “French Presidential Election 2007 1st Round Competition”. François Bayrou (UDF) - 19.8% Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN) - 20.3% ...politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2007/04/19/french-presidential-election-2007-1st-round-competition/ - 102k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

• 2007 French Presidential Elections• In 2007, the French voted for a new president.

Learn about the candidates, platforms, and results.french.about.com/od/2007elections/2007_French_Presidential_Elections.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

• French Presidential Elections 2007• French Presidential Elections 2007. You are

here: Home / Work in Parliament / French Presidential Elections. 16 April 2007. The French Presidential ...www.derekwyattmp.co.uk/news_item.aspx?i_PageID=115422 - 16k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

So what is on Intute?

• Selection of different types of resources

• But fewer full text articles • Good starting points that

can be explored• Use the advanced search

feature to limit by resource type.

• Use the MYIntute feature to personalise results

Advice on effective searching

• Use in conjunction with Google scholar. Advanced google features.

• Make your search terms broader

• Use the advance search form to restrict by resource type

• Save your results and set up research alerts.

MyIntute Personalisation

Features

Here’s one I prepared earlier

Integration – University of Leeds

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