The Research Clinic accompanies the training courses delivered by Internet research specialist Paul Myers (right)

It features the essential links, tools and study material for anyone involved in professional research - particularly those investigating UK subjects.

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Links
Look up a domain
  • Domaintools
    Investigate current and historical domain name ownership
  • Yougetsignal
    Investigates the server and hosting company

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Investigate people
  • Pipl
    Search by name, user name, email or (U.S.) phone number
  • 192.com
    UK phone book, electoral roll, business info, births, marriages and deaths

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Social media

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Apps & Add-ons
  • Flagfox
    A Firefox add-on that identifies a website's host and its location
  • Screengrab
    Saves entire webpages as images

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Find Information

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Time travel
  • Archive.org
    The "Wayback Machine" is a repository of Web sites dating back to 1996
  • Screenshots
    Gives you current and former screengrabs of webpages

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Business research

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Image research

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Undercover
  • Jondonym
    A free, anonymised and portable IP proxy and security enhanced browser
  • No-script
    A Firefox add-on that stops security threatening content from loading

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For researchers
  • UK OSINT
    Neil Smith's excellent open source research site
  • Journalist's Toolbox
    Indispensible guide to useful tools, apps and websites for journalists

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Audio & Video
  • Tunein
    Find and listen to 10's of thousands of radio stations across the world
  • Easy Youtube Downloader
    adds a box to every youtube page allowing you to download the videos to your computer

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News
  • Newsnow
    Tunes into breaking news, has over 30,000 sources & keyword search within subjects
  • Lexis Nexis
    Fantastic news article archive, but paid subscription only

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(c) Paul Myers 2013. The views expressed on this site are the author's own. The links do not represent an endorsement.