wheel - 3:06 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

As I intimated earlier, some of my content is historical (i.e. history of mortage rates). So I just did a search on "{niche} history" and am scouring the results.

The first dozen or so yeilded articles from competitors, commercial enterprises, and one of the best pay per blogs I've ever seen (it took me a bit of reading to even realize it's a paid blogger).

But on page two, I found a university that actually has formed a division on the history of my niche. I've scoured that section of the website, there's no external links that I can see. However they have had symposiums on the subject and published the list of speakers, all professors from around the world. So I'm going to do two things. First, I'm going to email the webmaster - he probably won't link to me, but heck, maybe he forwards the email on to profs at the university as a source of material. Then I'm going to Google all the names of the professors they listed as speaking on the subject. I'll check out their pages and see if any of them are worth approaching for a link.
Update: I just emailed the webmaster. I didn't ask for a link, just talked about how folks at the university may be interested in my content. He may pass it over to some profs, and they may link to it.