A probe into the change in the description of Chinese journals

In the process of publication,the new problems keep arising: such as changing the titles of journals,changing the numbers of journals,multi-edition for single journal,etc..All these changes not only affect the work of acquisition,description and classification in libraries,but also affect the retrieval work and the utilization of journals.Based on The Rules of Description of Serial Publications and The Handbook on Machine-Read Format of(new edition)Description,this article probes into the problems due to the changes of titles and editions and the solutions to the problems above mentioned.