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Important NOTICE to all subscribers and
other readers, contributors, and

subscription agencies

Beginning in 2008, with Volume 28, Informal Logic will become an
open-access on-line journal and, for all intents and purposes, cease to
publish paper copies of the journal.

This change has been brought on by several factors: changes in
criteria for funding academic journals in Canada; availability of free (to
us,) excellent open-access on-line software; increased costs of printing
and postage; the goal of wider circulation; the goal of accessibility to
scholars and libraries unable to afford journal subscriptions; greater turn-
around time between submission and publication; ability to publish longer
articles; ease of production; availability of back-issues (free) on-line.

This issue is the Summer 2007 issue of Informal Logic. The Fall
2007 issue will be published and distributed before the end of the calendar
year.

Starting with Volume 28, Informal Logic will also publish quarterly.
Issues will appear  at the ends of March, May, August and November
each year.  We intend to publish whatever articles are ready for press by
the publication date of the current issue. A possible consequence of this
policy will be that the quantity of articles in each number will vary.

The URL for the open-access journal is:

http://137.207.120.196/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic

There will be no change in the way articles are refereed (first, blind, by
the editors, then if judged worthy, blind by at least two selected reviewers).
Our articles will still be indexed as they have been. Also, we are offering
to mail out photocopies of issues to those without WWW access on
request, at cost—on the assumption that this offer will not be taken up by
many people.

Subscribers who have paid for Volume 28 and beyond will receive
refunds.