Internet Research Clinic features links, tools and study material for professional researchers. The site accompanies the training courses delivered by the BBC's Internet research specialist, Paul Myers. 

The techniques invented by Paul are now being taught across the media and other industries, his pioneering approaches have become standard practice. 

If you would like to exchange ideas or share a link please send an email to:

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Jeffrey's EXIF viewer
Displays information hidden in image files (such as GPS, camera model, whether the image has been edited)

Press Display
Displays the content of world newspapers in their printed layout.

UK OSINT
Neil Smith's excellent open source research site.

Journalist's Toolbox
Indispensible guide to useful tools, apps and websites for journalists.

Archive.org
Features the "Wayback Machine", a repository of Web sites past. Find changed pages, deleted information, missing images and Web sites as far back as 1996.

WHOIS
Various sites that let you investigate domain name owners.

192.com
People finder that allows you to search the phone book, electoral roll, business information and birth, marriage and death certificates.

Radiotime
Find and listen to 10's of thousands of radio stations across the world.

Newsnow
Tunes into breaking news, has over 30,000 sources and allows you to keyword search within subject categories.

Teldir.com
Finds online phone books from across the world.

Study

• Browsers

• Google's Search Syntax

• Tracing site owners

• Going undercover online

• Tracing terror videos

• Infiltrating Communities

• Compare satellite image sites

• Better Searching PDF

• Tips and Tricks

• Choosing Keywords

• Searching by Title

• Searching by address

• Searching by link

• Searching by Subject

• Websearchguide blog

• What's an IP address

• Your data trail

• Hidden info in Word docs

• Arabic language research

• Browser forensics tools

Customise

There are many tweaks that can help your research experience. Browser bookmarklets and Firefox add-ons for researchers.