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IT OUGHT to be simple. Nature is Nature, New Scientist is New Scientist and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is...well, PNAS.

But if you think the naming of journals is always so straightforward, then pity the poor librarian who has to deal with finding the right volume and issue when it comes to Comptes Rendus, the journal of the French Academy of Sciences.

Since its inception in 1835, Comptes Rendus has been available with no less than 34 different titles (so far). Its original sections have been spun off again and again over the years, leaving a trail of bibliographical debris so complicated that Patty Carey, a cataloguer at the University of Washington, has created a Comptes Rendus flow chart to help people navigate it.

You can find all 34 past and present incarnations and their multitude of inter-relationships at http://library.caltech.edu/collections/rpb/chemistry/CRdiagram.pdf

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