Synapses in the brain can short circuit as one grows older, letting incorrect information pass unnoticed from the eye to the mind. I experienced this recently when I reported in the Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues on an egregious price increase for a Pergamon journal. Somewhere between seeing the words on the paper and transcribing them through the keyboard, the one title transmogrified into the other. Pergamon's Computers and Fluids , not Elsevier's Combustion and Flame , was the real culprit. This might have just been embarrassing to me had not some readers apparently cancelled Combustion and Flame with Elsevier, citing the information in the Newsletter as the reason.
Some observations are in order.
I know I will be doubly careful in the future, but I suspect this is a tendency many if not most of us share, and we need to be aware of it. Second, though we try not to make mistakes at the Newsletter , we are human. Some people may have used the information found here indiscriminantly when they cancelled Combustion and Flame , ignoring the discrepancy between publishers, frequencies, and price. Third, the Newsletter does have clout. People did take action because of information found here, and publishers have taken notice.