People may be interested to note that the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is doing an open-access weekend; the entire online version is free to use (with a quick registration) for the next couple of days.
This may be pretty useful for those who've written articles on obscure people and want to factcheck...
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
On 23/09/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
People may be interested to note that the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is doing an open-access weekend; the entire online version is free to use (with a quick registration) for the next couple of days.
This may be pretty useful for those who've written articles on obscure people and want to factcheck...
I am, it should be noted at this point, a prat - I forgot the link!
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
--- Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
People may be interested to note that the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is doing an open-access weekend; the entire online version is free to use (with a quick registration) for the next couple of days.
This may be pretty useful for those who've written articles on obscure people and want to factcheck...
I am, it should be noted at this point, a prat - I forgot the link!
Well (apart from being a prat) let me say thanks for the heads up! For those who aren't aware, the ODNB contains 50,000+ bios of various people connected with the British Isles. I had access for a bit a while ago, and I found a number of entries on relatively obscure British cryptographers and GCHQ people, and that the biographies contained a lot of information that hadn't been published elsewhere.
-- Matt
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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