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Intute : Religion and Theology
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/religion/

Intute Arts and Humanities est un des espaces disciplinaires – ici, les sciences humaines – de Intute, une base de données descriptive de ressources en ligne, notamment académiques, sélectionnées et évaluées par des spécialistes.

Parmi les nombreux sujets de classification, on trouve un sujet « Religion and Theology », dans le domaine des « Historical and Philosophical Studies », qui regroupe  début 2008 près de 4000 ressources.

De langue anglaise, maintenu par l’université d’Oxford, Intute est la continuation de projets tels que Social Science Gateway (SOSIG) et de Resource Gateway Network (RDN). Les autres disciplines couvertes par Intute sont les sciences sociales, les sciences et techniques et la médecine.

Le domaine « Religions and Theology » est organisé par sujets (environ 60, déclinant tous les domaines de recherche des sciences religieuses), par périodes et par types de ressource (environ 50 types : ressources bibliographiques, corpus, etc.). Il est possible d’effectuer une recherche plein texte dans les notices, de parcourir les index du thésaurus, puis de s’abonner à un fil de nouvelles RSS qui annonce tout nouvel ajout. Un moissonneur de sites – harvester – permet d’élargir la recherche à des ressources non évaluées. Il est possible de suggérer son propre site depuis l’interface d’Intute.

Sont aussi disponibles :

• un moteur de recherche généraliste en sciences humaines (ou en sciences sociales),
• une liste de revues académiques,
• un tutorial de recherche adapté au domaine.

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