Hi there! Thanks for watching this video made for the Lewis-Clark State college Library Tutorials!
Let's talk about the Deep Web!
"Hold on, The Deep Web? I've heard of that."
"oh, yeah, yeah, 96% of the internet."
whoa there, that's a huge part of the internet!
that clip was from House of Cards. that show
and many other shows, movies, click bait articles
and today show puff pieces will have you believing
that the "Deep Web" is a place full of
"child porn, bitcoin laundering, mail-order
narcotics, hackers for hire."
that's not the full story of what the deep
web really is... He's just describing the
deep dark scary parts.
the better explanation is that the deep web
is the the internet that you can't get to
by search engines. In order to understand
what that means, you have to know a little
bit about search engines. in order for search
engines to be able to give you results, they
have computer programs running called crawlers,
which, well, crawl the web, indexing as they
go, following the links and going on to the
next page. they just go to every page they
can and save the information. but what crawlers
can't do, is input passwords. when a crawler
comes to a login page, it can't get through.
so, anything behind a password is the deep
web... your bank account information, the
password protected forum you go to discuss
bowhunting, and the secret password protected
blog where you collect photos of kittens wearing
little hats..... all part of the deep web.
not so dark and scary anymore, right?
So, why do you need to know this for your
library research?
because the material that the library purchases
for you to use is part of the deep web. it's
behind this login page, or accessible without
a password only if you're on campus.
That means the best scholarly journal articles
and e-book sources aren't accessible through
a google search!
Clip: "How do you access it? "it's actually
pretty easy I can show you if you want" "yeah,
i'm curious, go ahead"
accessing the library databases and other
online library resources are as easy as going
to our website, lcsc.edu/library. from there,
you'll go to "find articles and more", next
'databases" and you'll come to a huge list
of the databases we buy for you to use. if
you're off campus you'll have to log in with
your user ID and your birthday translated
into 6 digits, but after that you're in!
The databases are the best place to go for
information for your research papers. there
are hundreds of scholarly journals available
for you to access for free! Have at it!
