Resource Discovery System

The Resource Discovery System is a large and growing contributory database of digital resources for teaching staff in the whole Faculty of Medicine. The RDS contains not just images, but documents, presentations, RLOs, websites, audio and video clips, and kitchen sinks. All the database resources have been contributed by staff members in the Medical School and the School of Nursing & Midwifery, and staff are strongly encouraged to

use the RDS as their first 'port of call' for teaching resources
actively contribute to the RDS by entering their own resources

The three aims of this new development are:

Find: search across the faculty for particular types of learning resource so that you don't waste time and effort reinventing the wheel.
Develop: build learning activities and courses to suit your own context, using a mix of existing and new resources.
Share: contribute your own resources to be reused within your discipline, department or institution.

Access to the RDS

To obtain a password, please e-mail kay.akhter@nottingham.ac.uk with the following information, and using RES DIS PASS as the subject (Kay uses the subject line to filter the e-mails):

Your title, first name and surname.
Your job title.
Your network username (eg ntzxyz)

In due course you will receive an automated welcome email giving you your password. Access to this system will only be provided to School of Nursing staff (University School of Nursing lecturers or identified teaching staff for Nursing and support staff).

If you already have a username and password, use the link below to gain access:

Further information and queries

The following document contains more detail about how to use, and contribute to, the RDS:

Resource Discovery System manual (3Mb)

If you have any queries about the RDS, contact:

Kay Akhter , Media Resources Coordinator, SoNM, ext 30796
Simon Wilkinson, Senior Systems Development Officer, Medical School, ext 36562

Technicalities

The Resource Discovery System is based on an extended version of Dublin Core metadata to ensure compatibility with future developments and uses the controlled vocabulary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).