User:Duncan.Hull/stuff

A collection of links, templates and categories etc that can be useful for editing Biographies of living persons

Biographical sources
Useful biographical information can sometimes be found at


 * PubMed author search search PubMed by author
 * Oxford DNB search search the Dictionary of National Biography
 * Who's Who search search Who's Who (UK)
 * rsbm search find Biographical Memoirs
 * RoyalSoc Search search collections at the Royal Society
 * FRS since 1660 ~8000 fellows in a big google doc
 * LCNAF search search for Library of Congress Named Authority File
 * ORCID search Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) search
 * VIAF search search Virtual International Authority File
 * ISNI search the International Standard Name Identifier search
 * ResearcherID search the ResearcherID search
 * MacTutor search the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
 * MathGene search the Mathematics Genealogy Project
 * ACAD search the Alumni Cantabrigienses
 * http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/ Grants awarded via Research Councils UK
 * https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fred+smith+site:companieshouse.gov.uk search Companies House data using Google

PhD sources
Doctoral theses can sometimes be found Piled Higher and Deeper at


 * http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch at WorldCat and OCLC
 * http://ethos.bl.uk/AdvancedSearch.do Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library
 * http://ora.ox.ac.uk Research publications from the University of Oxford
 * http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk Research Archive at the University of Edinburgh
 * http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Search Oxford Libraries Online (SOLO) via the Bodleian Libraries
 * http://search.proquest.com/advanced ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
 * http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/searchresources/librarysearch at the University of Manchester
 * http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/searchAuthor?searchId=72 at the University of Cambridge
 * http://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/jrul/search/?search=Smith,%20John escholar
 * http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S24/ at the University of London
 * http://copac.jisc.ac.uk The Copac via Jisc
 * http://hollis.harvard.edu Hollis at Harvard University

Tools and examples

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/yadkard
 * {T} DOI Wikipedia reference generator
 * pmc to pmid
 * NSPNAS example
 * WikiProject Biography/Science and academia
 * WikiProject Royal Society
 * Baglama: page views via category from John Byrne
 * wikipediatrends.com
 * Wikipedia page visit stats from grok.se
 * flickypedia
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons
 * http://www.crossref.org/DOIComplaint
 * http://search.crossref.org

Templates and Category links
For reference:

Templates

 * Template:Acad
 * Template:Cite ODNB
 * Template:ACMPortal
 * Template:Biographical Memoirs
 * Template:Birth date
 * Template:Birth based on age as of date
 * Template:Cite book
 * Template:DBLP
 * Template:Cite doi
 * Template:Fellows of the Royal Society
 * Template:GoogleScholar
 * Template:Infobox award
 * Template:Infobox organization
 * Template:Infobox scientist
 * Template:Infobox person
 * Template:Infobox person/Wikidata
 * Template:MacTutor
 * Template:MathGenealogy
 * Template:NPG name
 * Template:Scopus
 * Template:Who's Who
 * Template:Cite thesis
 * Template:Cite web

Categories & Links

 * Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
 * Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
 * Fellows of the Institute of Physics
 * Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS)
 * Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
 * Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
 * Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
 * Foreign Members of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)
 * Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (MEMBO?)
 * Members of Academia Europaea (MAE)
 * Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
 * Category:Wikipedia articles with ORCID identifiers (115 )
 * Category:Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers (138,178 )
 * Category:Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers (273,444 )


 * List of Fellows of the Royal Society by election year

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