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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS AND 
OTHER READERS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND 

SUBSCRIPTION AGENCIES 

Beginning in 2008, with Volume 28, Number 1, 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, including: 
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; shorter 
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 Fall 2007 issue of Informal Logic, and the last issue 
of the journal to be printed on paper and distributed by post. 

Starting with Volume 28, Number 1, Informal Logic will also publish 
quarterly. Issues will appear on-line on March 1st, June 1st, September 1st 
and December 1st  each year.  Normally, we will publish the articles that 
are ready for press by the publication date of the current issue. Thus, the 
number of articles in each number might vary. 

The URL for the open-access journal is: 

http://www.informallogic.ca 

There will be no change in the way articles are refereed (first, blind, by 
the editors; then, if judged worthy, also blind, by at least two selected 
reviewers with expertise in the particular area to which the article belongs). 
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 
and 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.