Thanks to the efforts the Editorial Office, the employees at the SCG Archives and other associates made in the course of 2003 and 2004, a new issue of the journal ARHIV was prepared and came out in May 2004. Clad in a 'new robe' (with a re-designed jacket) and with a new publishing schedule (a semi-annual journal), this time, too, ARHIV seeks to cover as wide a range of archival and historiography topics as possible. On its more than 250 pages this double issue features 14 authored papers and 17 other contributions (articles on the publishing of archival records; reviews of international cooperation; book and magazine reviews, etc.) by 26 associates.

The main theme of the issue is the evaluation of archival records in light of new historiography trends. This topic, by which archivists are to respond to the requirements of modern historiography, has been addressed by 5 papers (pp. 9 - 47). The papers are for the most part the result of the practices pursued by archivists in sorting out and processing the holdings and reflect their endeavors to offer to researchers replies to the challenges they face in reviewing social history perceived in the broadest sense of the word.

Other papers in the section Archival Science are devoted to the issues of oral history (pp. 48 - 53); photography as a historic source (pp. 54 - 62); the history of the institution (63 - 78); and electronic achievements in the work of the Archives (79 - 94).

The section Historiography comprises papers on the ideological orientation of the Serbian Cultural Society 'Prosvjeta' (Education) (95 - 109); the relations between Yugoslavia and the West at the time of the Suez crisis (110 - 125); coverage by DOM (Home), the mouthpiece of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) of the assassination in Parliament in 1928 (126 - 144); and the articles in the British press about Yugoslav/Italian relations in the period 1929 - 1931 (145 - 159).

Other sections contain critical reviews of the archival documents (on the congress in the village of Ba in 1944 and the views of the State Security Agency (UDB) concerning the University of Belgrade in 1951 (160 - 188)); a set of photographs of Prince Pavle Karadjordjevic (189 - 196); articles on international bilateral and multilateral archival cooperation (197 - 226); a brief report about the social history seminar held at the Petnica Research Station (227 - 230); articles on more recent archival periodicals and historiography publications (231-245); and an article paying tribute to the memory of the late colleague Komnen R. Pijevac, M.A. (246 - 247).