User talk:Pete.linacre/Oxford University Biochemical Society

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The OUBS has been in place for nearly 50 years at the University of Oxford and is one of the older biochemistry student societies in the world. A wide variety of other Oxford student societies are well-represented on wikipedia. It has been an important conduit for running yearly lecture series that have brought in Nobel Laureates, Fellows of the Royal Society, and many other notable scholars for the purpose of giving lectures at the University of Oxford.

Similar societies that warrant a page on Wikipedia include:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Scientific_Society

amongst a very large number of other groups found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Clubs_and_societies_of_the_University_of_Oxford

further to the above, addressing the points of notability: "Significant coverage" - OUBS archives are not digital, however the University of Oxford has maintained historical records of previous committees, with a few example termcards available here:http://www2.bioch.ox.ac.uk/oubs/history/termcard_1978.pdf or here: http://www2.bioch.ox.ac.uk/oubs/history/termcard_hilary_1984.pdf

Evidence of the most recent Nobel Laureate lecture hosted by the OUBS is published on the front page of the British Biophysical Society, an organization that is reliable, independent and notable: http://www.britishbiophysics.org.uk/ under the article "Nobel Prize for BBS Durham Meeting Plenary Speaker"

But if that is not sufficient the University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry, an organization which is NOT the OUBS, and also fits under "Reliable", "Independent of the subject" (although they are the funding body for the OUBS, the OUBS is run by the students within the Department, as opposed to by the Department itself) and is a secondary source. The Department clearly advertises only one graduate student organization, the OUBS, under 'related information' and again under 'Internal' http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?sectionid=research