JISC reviews its Intute service, JISC (Dec 15)
Bad news from the UK. Funding has not been renewed for Intute, the excellent UK directory to scholarly resources developed by faculty and students in the UK. JISC in reviewing the funding concluded that Intute is too expensive to maintain in its current form and that no alternate funding would be possible.
"JISC regularly reviews the services that it funds, to ensure they deliver value for money, quality products and to test their sustainability for the future. A services portfolio review takes place annually and in May 2009 the future funding of JISC services, including Intute, was considered in order to identify the funding priorities for the academic year 2010/11. As a result it has now been decided that funding to the Intute service will cease in its current form from 1 August 2010."
From the email: "Our current service level will be maintained until 1 August 2010. After this date, Intute will still be available but with minimal maintenance. In addition, we are looking at possibilities to develop Informs and the Virtual
Training Suite and offer these as membership services. "