Academic publisher Elsevier, not content with raking in the money from all the expensive academic journals they print, is now following in the footsteps of illustrious organizations such as the American Biographical Institute: when your article gets published, they are offering wooden plaques celebrating the glorious occasion.
I recently got the following e-mail from Elsevier:
New! To commemorate your publication, you can now order printed author copies of the journal issue featuring your article, a unique Certificate of Publication, and/or customized full-color posters featuring your article. Please visit https://authororders.elsevier.com/
to learn more.
And indeed, you can find there a wide variety of choices to "commemorate" your publication, including:
- copy of the journal issue in which your article appears;
- "A customized full-color poster commemorating the publication of your article, featuring the article first page and a personalized reference."
- a "Certificate of Publication" which is "delivered ready to display in a high-quality frame, dark brown wood with gold trim."
- "A full-color, 16.5" x 23.4" sized poster of the cover of the issue in which your article appears, displaying a personalized reference to your publication."
Way to be classy, Elsevier!
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Let me induge in some wild speculation.
You have to pay for these things, right?
You betcha!
I want a T-shirt with my paper on it. Or perhaps a tatoo.
...because that's better than your article being used in some science?
All I can say is 'Yay for Google Scholar' :/
Do I have to view your Certificate before I can cite your article?
One of my friends published an article in Nature, but was told by his professor that he could not put these results in his PhD-thesis (because they were too far away from his actual research topic). He made a shirt with "I published in Nature and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" and gave talks about his work in that. Which was rather funny.
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