目前全世界外文报刊约有18万种,迄今尚未见到将这庞大数量报刊全部收录的目录.国外一些著名的大型目录,如《乌利希国际期刊指南》(Ulrich’s Inter-national periodicals Directory)1992～1993(第31版)也只收录了期刊62000多种,连同其他连续出版物共126000种.1993年,我国编辑出版了有中译报刊名,中文提要的《外国报刊目录》(第八版)(以下简称新 At present, there are about 180,000 kinds of foreign-language newspapers and magazines in the world, and so far no directory for listing such a large number of newspapers and periodicals has been found. Some well-known large-scale foreign directories, such as the Ulrich’s Inter-national periodicals Directory 1992 ~ 1993 (31st Edition) only contains more than 62,000 kinds of periodicals, together with other continuous publications a total of 126000 kinds.In 1993, China edited and published in the translation of newspapers, Chinese summary of the “foreign newspapers directory” (Eighth Edition ) (Hereinafter referred to as the new