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The Federal Resources for Academic Excellence (FREE) website is jam packed with resources from over 1,500 resources that get a thumbs up from the federal government. Topics available and ready to search include: health, math, history and art.

invisible web, hidden web, and deep web all refer to the same thing: a massive storehouse of online data that the search engines don't capture. That's because terabytes of information are buried in databases and other research resources. Searchable and accessible online but often ignored by conventional search engines, these resources exist by the thousands. Known in research circles as the invisible, deep, or hidden Web, this buried content is an estimated 500 times larger than the surface Web, which is estimated at over four billion pages. This mass of information represents a potent research resource, no matter what your discipline or interest. Below are some tools to help you mine it. Students and serious researchers may also find our collections of web directories and scholarly and academic research tools and strategies useful.

"RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers."

Quickly find the best teaching resources, homework help  and educational websites for use in the classroom.

Databases and e-resources at the Library of Congress / Web Search Tools

Search 6,831,241 resources in Stanford's libraries

"References.net is a multidisciplinary web directory of the most useful reference related resources that were carefully hand-picked by our editors. Browse our references collection by category, alphabetically, or simply search by keywords."

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

"The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

"BabelNet is both a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary, with lexicographic and encyclopedic coverage of terms, and a semantic network which connects concepts and named entities in a very large network of semantic relations, made up of about 15 million entries, called Babel synsets. Each Babel synset represents a given meaning and contains all the synonyms which express that meaning in a range of different languages. Its evolution, BabelNet live, is a new, continuously growing resource, .."

CHORUS+ Network of Audio-Visual Media Search AVmediasearch.eu is the hub where you will find all useful information related to events, technologies, resources… linked to audio-visual search.