AbstractThis paper aims at analysing the use of internet resources by research scholar and student. The quality online content useful to academics in international studies teaching and research at the university and college level, including how and where to locate such materials through guides, directories, gateway sites, repositories, and various types of search engines; considerations about internet use in universities and college classes; and research scholars pg and ug graduate assignments that use sources of information from the internet. There is also consideration of characteristics and trends of university student use of the internet for research purposes, the ‘‘invisible’’ or deep web, electronic information literacy for academics, and maintaining current awareness on the fast-changing web.