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The International Editorial Board of IFP met in Paris on Saturday and Sunday November 1-2, 1997. Participants in this meeting were: Jan Stensson, Arne Jemstedt, Ulla Britt Parment, Christer Sjödin, Tord Nystedt and Mona Serenius (Sweden); Michael Ermann (Germany); Valerie Tate Angel (USA); Romulo Aguillaume (Spain); Eliana Mendes (Brazil) and Marco Conci (Italy). This was the first time the editorial board met in its extended form, outside of an IFPS meeting — with the financial support of IFPS and Scandinavian University Press. Since the journal was launched in 1992, it has little by little found a growing readership. Around half of the subscribers are in the Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Finland and Norway. As the future of IFP was our main topic, the agenda of the meeting focused on the following items: marketing of the journal; measures to increase the inflow of interesting material and to improve the readability of the journal; planning of specific issues, and expansion of the book review section. Of course, the very fact of calling such a meeting and getting together in a place like Paris, contributed to strengthening the relationships among us — and thus stimulated our fantasy and desire to collaborate with and work for the journal.
As far as the marketing is concerned, although the journal is already circulated in 24 countries, we do need to further increase and hopefully double the number of subscribers. Brochures and sample copies of IFP are systematically sent to big international congresses and book fairs and in the course of 1998 the journal will also become available electronically through major intenational databases (For further information and details on electronic acess see: ). We also hope to expand the collective subscriptions — which requires collaboration with those IFPS societies who have not yet joined, as well as with the IFPS Executive Committee.
Of course, the best means of increasing the number of subscribe