Open Access and Hidden Web sites   Tags: deep_web, hidden_web, open_access  

A "public service organization for teaching and learning environment".

"The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web."

"...largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors".

"Scholarly Internet Resource Collections"

"....find best websites for study and research"

An index provided and maintained by Yahoo. Search tools and options in 36 different languages increases its global appeal. Includes PDF, Word as well as multimedia files.

Retrieves contents from "inaccessible Deep Web and Surface Web sources".

"....front door to ..Deep Web databases on the Web and to the thousands of regular search engines"

"...a librarian's choice of the best of the Web"

"....discovers (and searches) search engines while spidering the web."

"...a comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once."

"....strategic research portals for market research, competitive intelligence, business analysis, product development, and technology research."

...authoritative, intelligent, and time-saving resources