Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education.

Below is a collection of some good resources curated specifically for academics and research students. It contains academic search engines, iPad apps, guides on academic writing, and research methodology textbooks. The purpose is to empower researchers with the tools and resources to help them make the best of their research endeavours. 

Using search engines effectively is now a key skill for researchers, but could more be done to equip young researchers with the tools they need. Here, Dr Neil Jacobs and Rachel Bruce from Jisc’s digital infrastructure team share their top ten resources for researchers from across the web.

Over 1.2 trillion Google searches are done per year; that’s more than 40,000 searches per second. It’s so easy to type in a few keywords or a question when searching the web. Despite the magnificence of Google and other search engines, they cover only 4% (about 8 billion pages) of the world wide web; the additional 96% goes way beyond Google… 

The most significant portion of the world wide web, the invisible web, is inaccessible by search engines like Google. It’s also called the deep web. Before we show you how to research beyond Google, let’s first answer questions you’re probably asking at this point. Is the deep web also the dark web? Is it legal to access the Deep Web?