{"id":179,"date":"2009-06-24T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-06-24T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T04:23:00","slug":"elsevier-scandal-for-24609-and-other-links-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/elsevier-scandal-for-24609-and-other-links-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsevier scandal for 24\/6\/09 and other links of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with publishing fake journals, Elsevier&#8217;s marketing division recently decided to &#8220;offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who would give a new textbook five stars in a review posted on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/06\/23\/elsevier\">Upon exposure, it&#8217;s now recanted the scheme.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More New Zealand libraries on the social web: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LincolnULibrary\">Lincoln Uni Library on Twitter<\/a>; <\/li>\n<li>Otago Uni Library <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OtagoLibrary\">on Twitter<\/a> and showing their Law Library refurbishments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/otagolawlibrary\/\">on Flickr<\/a>; <\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cclstaff\/\">Christchurch City Library staff on Flickr<\/a> (with photos of Paul Sutherland&#8217;s 50th birthday party). <\/ul>\n<p>Photos of libraries to drool over: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/pbl-symposium-part-7-republic.html\">Republic Polytechnic Library, Singapore<\/a> &#8212; lots of space; and <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkingpaper.org\/2090\">Hjorring public library, Denmark<\/a> &#8212; a red ribbon theme flows through the whole building; lots of bright colours and cool spaces; self-checkin. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A report from Cambridge University about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/libraries_ebooks_and_the_mobile_web_a_long_ways_to_go.php\">what students are interested in doing on mobile phones<\/a>:  primarily opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/06\/15\/12176.html\">hilarious and very true rant<\/a> on attending vendor training sessions; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spurioustuples.net\/?p=261\">a more serious post in response<\/a> on how this applies to the kind of training sessions we give students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igitur.nl\/news\/issue2_2009\/DOAJ.html\">National Library of the Netherlands is to secure long-term preservation of the content of the Directory of Open Access Journals.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with publishing fake journals, Elsevier&#8217;s marketing division recently decided to &#8220;offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who would give a new textbook five stars in a review posted on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.&#8221; Upon exposure, it&#8217;s now recanted the scheme. More New Zealand libraries on the social web: Lincoln Uni Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[98,89,161,73,4,58,115,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}