How can you quickly and easily find the email address of a professor, researcher, academic, or other person associated with a college or university?
1. Check Academia.com, and send "inservice" email freely;
2. Check Researchgate, and send "in service" email freely;
3. Go to the university website and try to track the person through the department where they work, and see if their email is listed; If not, call the department and ask for the email;
4. Check SCOPUS publications;
5. Check WOK/WOS publications;
6. Check LinkedIn, and send "inservice" email, although LinkedIn severely restricts how many messages you can send freely this way;
7. Check FaceBook, and send "inservice" email freely;
8. Go to that multi-volume, hard copy Faculty Directory that I often saw at the Welch Library, and look up the name. I am not sure if it provides the email address, but it would tell where current faculty are located, and you could then track them through Intelius.
9. Just Google their name in quotes, and one of the results will probably tell what university they work at, and then go to #3 above;
How can you quickly and easily find the physical address, email address, and other contact information of a book author?
1. Look on the dust jacket of the book, which frequently has a short write-up about the author, and frequently tells where the author lives, although sometimes just generally, such as a state or region of the country. Then search Intelius.
2. Look for a section within the book "About the Author", which is usually longer than what is on the dust jacket, and may tell where the person lives or was born. Even if it only tells where he was born, that is a good lead, because he may still have relatives with the same last name who live in the same area. And Intelius searches last names only for any town, city, or state in the US.
3. Check the Biography and Genealogical Master Index (BGMI), which indexed all of the issues of Biography Index, Who's Who, and 2,000 of biography reference books. This can be used , if you can't find out a location of birth or residence from online sources. Almost every author of note is listed in the BGMI.
4. Always start by checking online sources:
4.1 Google: "First name, Last name" + "born in": Every obituary states at one point or the other: " X was born in". So if you do a quote search as noted, you will find almost every obituary or biographical write-up on any person. You might have to do two different searches, one without the middle initial, and one with the middle initial. The biography or obituary may not have the full name next to the text "born in", but the full name will undoubtedly be somewhere else in the write-up.
4.2. Check Facebook and LinkedIn websites: Almost every author will have a Facebook or LinkedIn page for publicity purposes, to gain "likes", establish a fan following, etc.
4.3. Google the person's name to see if they have a website or blog: It is almost "required" nowdays for a person to have a website or blog. The blog search engine, Technorati, does not exist anymore, but Google blogger has a search engine, and if you search the person's name plus "blog" you may be able to find their blog.
Biography Sources Review: http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/04/reference/ereviews-2/
Websites of Value for PI Research:
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