In March this year I posted the following:-
>EUROORIENT - A WARNING
>
> In 1997 a new periodical (ISSN: 1284-4519) started in Neuilly-sur-Seine,
> France. On the front cover and at the head of the title-page it carries the
> title EUROORIENT, with the two Os overlapping, followed by SHARQ WA-URUBA in
> Arabic script. However, elsewhere in each issue, including the running title
> at the foot of every page, and on the spine, the title appears as EURORIENT,
> with only one O.
>
> This periodical carries scholarly articles in French on the Middle East,
> which we are including in Index Islamicus. So far three issues have been
> published. Following our normal practice, we have taken the title from the
> title-page, and it appears in our citations as EUROORIENT. However, the
> Bibliotheque Nationale de France has catalogued it as EURORIENT (although
> their record also gives EUROORIENT as an alternative title). So far I have
> not seen it in any other catalogue or database: it is not in RLIN nor OCLC
> nor MELVYL.
>
> This situation is likely to cause some confusion, and may prevent
> students and researchers from finding the periodical when they need
> it. The best way to prevent this will be to ensure that library catalogues
> record both titles in searchable form.
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I have now received another issue of this periodical (No.4 Fevrier-Mai
1999) and I find to my dismay that this one gives the title on the title-page
as EURORIENT, with only one O, and without the Arabic title SHARQ WA-URUBA
(although EUROORIENT / SHARQ WA-URUBA still appears on the front cover). We
shall therefore have to record it as a change of title, and cite it as
Eurorient in Index Islamicus. We wait with bated breath to see what is on
the title-page of the next issue.
This periodical is still not recorded in RLIN, OCLC nor MELVYL.
Geoffrey Roper
Islamic Bibliography Unit
Cambridge University Library
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