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Strategies for Locating Email Addresses

I: General Email Search Services on the Web

EmailAddresses.com - A Faq, and links to email search tools on the web
    http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_find.htm

Addresses.com - bills itself as the largest directory on the web.
    Requires free registration, but realize this means you are adding your email to their database
        http://www.addresses.com/

Mesa - Your Meta Email Search Agent - searches 8 directories and compares results
        http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/

"How to Find Email Addresses" - A Faq with links created by professor Joan Korenman at the Center for Women and Information Technology
        http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/addresses.html

Lycos PeopleSearch
        http://www.whowhere.com/

II Strategies to try next

A. Do you know where the person works
        If you do, try to find a webpage for that company or organization - searching google is often the easisest way
        Then, once you are at the company / org website, look for a link for directories, or people search etc. If there is nothing like that, look for
            a search option on the page.
        If you know what department or subgroup they work in, look for a link to that.
        * If the person is an academic - use the directory on the university website to find out what department they are in. Then to get more info- follow this
                sequence : DO Not click on the "Faculty" link on the main page - this is info FOR faculty, not ABOUT them.

                            Look for a button that says Academics or Colleges & Schools or Departments.
                            If only Colleges and Schools - click on College of Arts & Sciences in most cases
                            Look for a list of departments - click on the department
                            Now, at the department webpage, look for a link to "Faculty"

B. Do you know the person's occupation
        If you don't know exactly where the person works, but you do know their general occupation, you can try the following :

Look for websites for societies or professonal organizations in that field that they may be a member of. For example if they are a doctor - check out the AMA website -- if they are a psychologist, the APA website

Do you think they are in higher education (a professor, instructor, dean etc.), look in the National Faculty Directory (Ref Room)

C. Is the person likely to have published any books or articles?
If so, try to find a copy at the library or online.

For books - search World Cat (via FirstSearch) for their name in the author field (use the advanced search screen)

For articles - start with ProQuest, if not found try one of the subject specific databases in their field.

Sometimes the listing in the database itself will tell you where they work, and maybe even give an email address

If you can get aohld of the item itself, often author contact info is given in the introductory info or at the end of the article

D. Searching Google and/or other Search Engines - This should be a last resort.

Try searching for their name on google - put the name in quotations and try variations

Example: If you are looking for me - Sharon Renee Clayton you would try the following :

"Sharon Clayton"
"Sharon R. Clayton"
"Sharon Renee Clayton"
"Clayton, Sharon"
"Sharon Clayton" library - adding a word or two to narrow the search if you get too many can help