THE HISTORY OF THE SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN
A Series, PHILOLOGY Section, Code 622 CNSIS

The journal was included in the Frankfurt CEEOL International Data Base, Germany,
( www.ceeol.com), and  in the 2010 November evaluation it was promoted to B+ category CNSIS.

The Scientific Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters from the North University of Baia Mare was first published  in 1969 having an annual frequency as the Scientific Bulletin, A Series, Philology. Pedagogy. Social Sciences. It was published as such until 1972: 1969 vol. I, 1970 vol. II, 1971 vol. III, 1972 vol.IV without ISSN. The next three volumes were published after an eight year break: 1980 vol. V, 1983 vol. VI., 1986 vol. VII.

Since 1992 the magazine of the Romanian Language and Literature department has been published distinctively  as  the Scientific Bulletin, A Series, Philology, in 1992 vol. VIII, and in 1994 vol. IX was given ISSN 1222-6491, 1996 vol.X, 1997 vol.XI, 1999 vol. XII.

Since 1992, articles have been grouped into three domains: 1. Romanian Language and Modern Languages; 2. Romanian Literature and Foreign Literatures; 3. Romanian Folk Culture and Civilisation.

In 1996, vol. X was given a new ISSN 1224-3191, with the following structure: 1. Language; 2. Literature; 3. Folklore; 4. Reviews. It is worth mentioning that some of the most prominent linguists of the time published articles in that volume, such as: acad. Emanuel Vasiliu, Andrei Avram, Gheorghe Bulgăre, Tatiana Slama-Cazacu.

From 2001, the new ISSN of vol. XIII being 1583-1264, the magazine was published once every two years until 2007 as follows: 2003 vol.XIV, 2005 vol.XV, 2007 vol. XVI. Since 2007 the Scientific Bulletin, A Series, Philology section has been published annually: 2008 vol. XVII, 2009 vol. XVIII, being edited by the Romanian Language and Literature Department of the North University from Baia Mare,  by the North University Publishing House of Baia Mare.  

In 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 the Scientific Bulletin, A Series, Philology section was given code 622 CNSIS, C category. The publication has been nationally and internationally acknowledged due to the highly quality articles of famous Linguistics and Literature specialists known for their professional reputation nationally and abroad. It has been noticed the successful collaboration with the “Iorgu Iordan- Al. Rosetti” Bucharest Institute of Linguistics, of the Romanian Academy, including a series of very interesting and well - documented materials. As a result the Academy member Alexandru Surdu has agreed to be included as an honorific member in the Scientific Bulletin Editing Board.

As a consequence of the licence agreement from the 15 th of November 2010, the Scientific Bulletin, series A, Philology section has been included in the CEEOL International Data base from Frankfurt, Germany ( www. Ceeol. com) . The CNCSIS evaluation from November 2010 promoted the magazine to B+ category CNCSIS 622 code.

Among the nationally recognized authors who have published in the Scientific Bulletin magazine, A series, Philology section, the following named are to be mentioned: Maria Marin, PH.D., scientific researcher, head of the Dialectology department of  “Iorgu Iordan- Al. Rosetti” Bucharest Institute of Linguistics,  Iulia Margarit, Ph.D.,  scientific researcher- “Iorgu Iordan- Al. Rosetti” Bucharest Institute of Linguistics, Teofil Teaha, , Ph.D.,  scientific researcher- “Iorgu Iordan- Al. Rosetti” Bucharest Institute of Linguistics, Adrian Rezeanu,  Ph.D.,  scientific researcher- “Iorgu Iordan- Al. Rosetti” Bucharest Institute of Linguistics; Univ. Prof. Vasile Fratila, Ph.D.-Tthe West University of Timisoara; Univ. Prof. Cornel Munteanu, Ph.D.- The North University of Baia Mare, Univ. Prof. Gheorghe Glodeanu, Ph.D.- The North University of Baia Mare; Univ. Prof. Victor Iancu , Ph.D.- The North University of Baia Mare.