Subscribers, please accept my apologies for a mistake that
was
made by at least one reader looking at Atanu Garai's message
of
Tuesday evening. In it, Garai said:
> "Researchers in the UK, for example, produce about
75,000 papers a=20
> year, which means they would have to pay about =A3100m
in author=20
> fees if all journals were open access. This sum is far
higher=20
> than the =A390m they currently pay in library
subscriptions. (The=20
> open-access debate.
I have left in the ugly marks, because they gave rise to the
error. Garai said that 75K papers would require authors to
pay
about 100M in UK pounds, more than the 90M in UK pounds they
currently pay in library subscriptions. The "=A3"
character
represents the British pound sign. The listserving software
of
this world (we use listproc) has lagged behind the power of
mailers, and so whenever readers send mail with various
diacritical marks, "smart quotes", and the like,
we risk getting
those =20 signs and other gibberish. The moderator tries to
clean them out, and then cleans them out again when they
make it
the archive, but usually they do not obstruct understanding;
in
this case I'm sorry to say they did.
The Moderator
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