Entering the Deep Web

The deep web is different from the surface web in that you are able to "unlock" the website in order to discover journal articles, books, and other sources hidden beneath. The information you find through a deep web database could never be unearthed via Google or Yahoo! Students must first find a deep web database and then search it for the needed information. Some databases you find will be free to the public, but others are property of SUNY Geneseo and the system must recognize that you are affiliated with Geneseo.

Students can use Google and Yahoo! to find deep websites, but then will have to search the resulting sites themselves to "unlock" the information. Search on the general topic at hand (i.e. Culture* or Ethnograph* or Anthro*) and add the word "database" to your search. If you are too specific with your topic in Google, you will limit your chances of finding a database that covers many different subject areas, like those found below.

Librarians' Index to the Internet is a good search engine to start with since the sites it provides are already approved for reliability of source and information. Under the Advanced Search, add your general topic as a description/title/subject.

SCHOLARLY SEARCH ENGINES		DEEP WEB SEARCH ENGINES
AnthroBase: Methods, Fieldwork, Ethics		Incy Wincy
Infomine		OTHER SEARCH ENGINES
Intute: Social Sciences		Dogpile
Librarians' Index to the Internet		Google
Voice of the Shuttle, Anthropology		Yahoo!
Voice of the Shuttle, Archaeology		Recommended Gateway Sites for the Deep Web
World Wide Web Virtual Library, Anthropology		University of Albany Internet Tutorial
World Wide Web Virtual Library, Bibliography of fieldwork, research methods and ethnography		RESEARCH SPECIFIC
MULTIMEDIA SEARCHING		AnthroGlobe Journal
American Memory		Blending Observational Methods: Possibilities, Strategies, and Challenges
AOL Video		Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research
Audio Search		Ethnocentrism and Xenphophobia: A Cross-Cultural Study
BBC.com		Ethnographic Methods for the Study of Electronic Communities
CBC.ca		Is Ethnocentrism Adaptive? An Ethnographic Analysis
Digital Librarian: Audio, Video, Multimedia		National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Multimedia Search Engines		Participant Observation
NPR.org		Special Ethical Code of the Research-Propagator: "Emotional Contact" and "Impassive Observation"
PBS.org
Truveo.com
YouTube
WHICH OF THESE SITES WOULD YOU USE FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH?
GROUP 1		GROUP 2
Calgary Herald Denounces Unethical Practices in Italian University!		Ethics in Anthropology
Chandra Jayawardena and the Ethical 'Turn' in Australian Anthropology		Ethics in Anthropology: Public Presentation of Anthropological Material
Ethical Standards in Research: Contextualizing Guidelines to Fit Ethnographic Needs		How Anthropology Should Respond to an Ethical Crisis
Savage Minds: Ethics		The 'Isms' that Shape an Ethical Debate
Teaching Ethics for Research, Scholarship and Practice		Local Circumstances 'International Ethics' and the Controversy . . . (pg 7)

 

 

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