I owe Elsevier again! O noes!
Okay, writing for Elsevier is a serious matter, but this is just funny…
A few weeks back Elsevier sent a Scopus rep to MPOW. Seems whenever they do this, they hold a contest for an iPod nano, the said contest involving going to a special website and answering a few ready-reference questions with Scopus. MPOW’s Elsevier liaison was shocked that I don’t already have an iPod and encouraged me to enter the contest, so I did.
Except for the Scopus-dependent questions (“how many journal titles does Scopus index?”), I confess I used Wikipedia. Article databases are usually the wrong tool for ready reference. But anyway…
… guess who won the iPod? I must be one of the cool kids now. Or something. Poor Elsevier; I can almost feel sorry about the way they keep spending money on me.
Almost.