2026 Reading Month — Empowering Knowledge • Reading for the Future

CNKI eBooks is a one-stop digital reading and research platform that collects high-quality academic e-books from China. With a core focus on academic, research, and informative value, CNKI eBooks brings together classic academic works and major series of significant historical and developmental importance, providing reliable e-book resources to support teaching and research.

Wanfang Local Gazetteers is an essential documentary resource for regional records. Organized by chronology, geography, and subject matter, it serves as a comprehensive encyclopedia that offers insights into the historical, geographic, social, political, economic, legal, and cultural landscapes of various regions in China. To cater to the unique nature of these records, Wanfang Data has developed a dedicated service platform, "Wanfang Local Gazetteers Knowledge Service System”. The collection is categorized by the 1949 historical milestone: it features "Old Local Gazetteers" (pre-1949), comprising over 9,200 titles and 125,000 volumes, and "New Local Gazetteers" (post-1949), which currently exceeds 67,000 volumes. With continuous updates, it stands as the most extensive digital repository of "New Local Gazetteers" available.

Oxford Scholarship Online provides easy access to thousands of books from the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press. New books are added to the collection every month, spanning subjects across almost every area of academia, which means you can read new publications from pioneering authors alongside classic scholarship. Oxford Academic is the new home of Oxford Scholarship Online, meaning scholars and students alike can discover these academic books alongside Handbooks, Very Short Introductions, practitioner medicine and psychology texts, and hundreds of the highest quality journals.