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An interview is presented with Robert Ageneau, the founder and president of the French publishing house Éditions Karthala. Ageneau talks about the founding of the publishing house and developing relationships with historians and researchers, particularly from Africa, interested in writing the history of their own countries. Difficulties African and Caribbean historians encounter, the periodical "Politique africaine," and the book "L'Afrique dans l'engrenage de la Grande Guerre" by Marc Michel are also mentioned.

Focuses on literary publishing by foreigners in Paris, France as of 2003. Tradition of Anglophone publishing; Literary magazines which appeared in the 1910s through the 1930s; Appeal of the do-it-yourself publishing sector in Paris.

The article focuses on the merger of the last volume of publications "Répertoire International de la Literature de l'art" (RILA) and the "Répertoire d'art et d'archaelogie" (RAA) to become the "Bibliography of the History of Art" (BHA) in 1990. The French agency Institut National d'Information Scientifique et Technique and the U.S.-based nonprofit private group Getty Trust have made contributions to the merger. Data collection became prevalent in the large scale production of the BHA. Bibliographic description is one of five parts of BHA records.

The article announces the opening of the journal "French Forum" to French and Francophone cinema. The author intents to diversify and vitalize the journal by making film studies an integral part of it. He added that they will continue to welcome and publish contributions on all periods and genres of French and Francophone literature.

The article discusses the book Les revues d'économie en France, 1751-1994, edited by Luc Macro. This book presents a retrospective view of the main scientific journals published in France since the mid-seventeenth century. The introduction and the first part include five papers dealing with the historical importance of past leading publications, Journal des économistes, Revue économique internationale, and Revue d'histoire économique et sodale. The second part examines the evolution of active major general or specialized journals and their actual relevance; Revue d'économie polétique, Revue économique, Economies et sociétés, Annalees d'économie et de statistique, and Retue d'economie industrielle. In the conclusion, a round table extends the debate about the merits of the previous publications by including the relative impact of some other recent journals and the growing importance of the role of new technologies of information.