Short for "Current Periodical". Current periodicals refer to periodicals and newspapers published in the current year and placed on the current shelf, or periodicals published in previous years but still placed on the current shelf and not bound into volumes.

This word comes from the first edition of Academic Language of Library, Information and Literature.

This issue of the paper refers to the one published in that year, generally referring to the one published within one year. Corresponding to the current issue, there is also a kind of publication called back issue, which refers to past and expired publications. If you search for this issue on the Internet, it corresponds to a period, which is the division of the two.

Current periodicals refer to periodicals and newspapers published in the current year and placed on the current shelf, or periodicals published in previous years but still placed on the current shelf and not bound into volumes. Back issue refers to the periodicals published in previous years, which have been packed into bound volumes or have not yet arrived, and are scattered on the back issue shelves.