狭义的集邮文献包括集邮书报刊及录音录像带、光盘;广义的集邮文献又可包括进集邮信函、邮票与集邮档案的文件、邮商售品目录等等。其中邮票与集邮的档案和文件往往易于被集邮文献收藏者忽略,因为有不少这类的档案和文件与邮政 The narrow philatelic literature includes newspapers, magazines, audio-visual tapes and CD-ROMs. The generalized philatelic documents can also include documents such as mails, stamps and philately archives, catalogs of postal products, and so on. Of these, stamps and philatelic archives and documents tend to be easily overlooked by collectors of philatelic documents because there are many such files and documents