Here is the table of contents of Volume 8 and subscription information for the journal Theory and Applications of Categories. The Editors invite high quality submissions. The full table of contents is at www.tac.mta.ca/tac/ THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF CATEGORIES ISSN 1201-561X Volume 8 - 2001 1. $n$-Permutable locally finitely presentable categories Marino Gran and Maria-Cristina Pedicchio, 1-15 2. Exponentiable Morphisms: posets, spaces, locales, and Grothendieck toposes Susan Niefield, 16-32 3. On sifted colimits and generalized varieties J. Adamek and J. Rosicky, 33-53 4. On Mackey topologies in topological abelian groups Michael Barr and Heinrich Kleisli, 54-62 5. Finite sum - product logic J.R.B. Cockett and R.A.G. Seely, 63-99 6. On the pullback stability of a quotient map with respect to a closure operator Lurdes Sousa, 100-113 7. Duality for simple $\omega$-categories and disks Mihaly Makkai and Marek Zawadowski, 114-243 8. Finite sets and symmetric simplicial sets Marco Grandis, 244-252 9. How algebraic is algebra? J. Adamek, F. W. Lawvere and J. Rosicky, 253-283 10. Localization of $V$-categories Bjorn Ian Dundas, 284-312 11. Limites inductives point par point dans les catgories accessibles Pierre Ageron, 313-323 12. Combinatorics of branchings in higher dimensional automata Philippe Gaucher, 324-376 13. How large are left exact functors? J. Adamek, V. Koubek and V. Trnkova, 377-390 14. A categorical genealogy for the congruence distributive property Dominique Bourn, 391-407 15. Pseudogroupoids and commutators George Janelidze and M.Cristina Pedicchio, 408-456 16. Perfect Maps are Exponentiable - Categorically Gunther Richter and Walter Tholen, 457-464 17. Essential localizations and infinitary exact completion Enrico M. Vitale, 465-480 18. Cartesian closed topological hull of the construct of closure spaces V. Claes, E. Lowen-Colebunders and G. Sonck, 481-489 19. A sheaf-theoretic view of loop spaces Mark W. Johnson, 490-508 20. On Functors Which Are Lax Epimorphisms Jiri Adamek, Robert El Bashir, Manuela Sobral, Jiri Velebil, 509-21 21. Closure operators in exact completions Matias Menni, 522-540 22. The extensive completion of a distributive category J.R.B. Cockett and Stephen Lack, 541-554 23. V-Cat is locally presentable or locally bounded if V is so G. M. Kelly and Stephen Lack, 555-575 SUBSCRIPTION/ACCESS TO ARTICLES Subscribers to the journal receive abstracts of accepted papers by electronic mail. Compiled TeX (.dvi), Postscript and PDF files of the full articles are available by Web/ftp. To subscribe, send a request to tac@mta.ca, including your name and a postal address. The journal is free to individuals. 14-Jan-2002 19:18:19 -0400,2044;000000000001-00000000