21st Century Information Fluency

Deep (Invisible) Web

Barker, Joe. Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial in Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity, [Website]. : 1 October 2002 [cited 30 Oct 2002]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html>.

Joe Barker, UC Berkeley's brilliant teaching librarian, provides an introductory tutorial on the Invisible web that explains concepts clearly and in depth.

Bright Planet: Largest Deep-Web™ Sites [Website]. : 2006 [cited 25 May 2006]. Available from the World Wide Web: <http://www.brightplanet.com/infocenter/largest_deepweb_sites.asp>

The Bright Planet website has cutting-edge information about the Deep Web. They are often quoted in the research as stating, "The Deep-Web™ is made up of hundreds of thousands of publically accessible databases and is approximately 500 times bigger than the surface web." This page features a list (with hot links) to the largest free databases of Deep Web content.

Cohen, Laura. The Deep Web in Internet Tutorials, [Article]. :December 2002 [cited 17 January 2003]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.internettutorials.net/deepweb.html>.

Laura Cohen of the University at Albany SUNY Library provides a concise overview of the deep web, and explains why the name 'invisible web' is a poor choice of terms.

Divine, Jane and Egger-Sider, Francine. Beyond Google: The Invisible Web, [Website]. : June 2005 [cited 25 May 2006]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library/invisibleweb/graphics.htm>.

This site provides a strong overview of the Invisible web to help library users improve their search skills. The glossary is an excellent quick orientation to the professional vocabulary of Invisible Web searching. The Invisible Web-ography provides an extensive annotated list of web based sites and papers about the Invisible Web. This single sight will help orient newcomers and intermediate level users to the key issues in the field.

Librarians' Index to the Internet: "Invisible or Hidden Web" [Web Directory]. :lii.org The Library of California: 2003 [cited 10 july 2006]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/search?action=show;search=invisible%20web;searchtype=keywords>.

The Librarian's Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 11,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. The Librarian's Index to the Internet (lii.org) is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources. This link will take you to the most current results for the keywords: (invisible or hidden) Web.