Regarded as “The Crown Jewels of Sinology in Taiwan” with Academia Sinica’s journals, the database collects “National Palace Museum Bulletin,” “The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art,” “The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly,” and “National Palace Museum Quarterly.” It is the sole full text searchable database over the past 20 years on NPM journals in Taiwan. It includes 923 issues, 7,850 articles, 75 million characters and 60 thousand color photos from 1966 to date. Also, it is equipped with exclusive functions in addition to full text search, such as color original photos added to black/white version, sole Chinese translation of English article titles, artwork commentaries and original photos embedded in articles, and relevant films and animations attached to articles, which makes users enjoy the new artistic perspective while reading NPM journals in digital ways.

Regarded as “The Crown Jewels of Sinology in Taiwan” with National Palace Museum’s journals, Sinica Sinoweb is the sole full text searchable database of its kind from Taiwan. It collects the core sinological journals of Academia Sinica, and other outstanding Taiwanese journals known worldwide. From the first issue to the present, the collection is exclusively intact, especially on the early rare issues/articles. It is exclusively available for full text search as well. Sinologists around the world highly praise and appreciate its excellent digitization work on rare/difficult characters, such as, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, and Chinese Studies of National Central Library.

The series collects the epochal magazines of public opinions forums published in Taiwan and Hong Kong from 1949 to date. It aims to digitize and represent anew these masterpieces that are landmarks of different generations but vanishing from paper collections of libraries, so to review the grace of those opinion leaders’ thoughts in that era, and encourage alive people to learn from predecessors’ wisdom. Selection principles: Enlightening/initiating valuable social climates; Articles lead new thought trends but never been collected completely; Works fought with Kuomintang, created and advocated many significant taboo agendum which became the prevailing thoughts afterward.

The Continent Magazine was founded by academicians of Academia Sinica－Zhu Jiahua, Dong Zuobin, Li Ji, Guo Ting Yi, Ling Chun Sheng, etc. in 1950, and ceased in 2002, collecting contemporary master sinologists’ thought context and era issues in 52 years and 867 issues. Originating from China and converging to Taiwan, it is a highly-praised journal assembling worldwide sinologists’ contributions after 1950. Stressing on history, it also carried articles of literature, philology, philosophy, art, law, politics, sociology, agriculture, and geology. It began as a fortnightly and changed to a monthly since March 1968. Its editor’s opening statement said that “Chinese continent is the birthplace of 5000 years of East Asian civilization, and is also our motherland where we were born, grow and build nation. We desire and should keep it in mind. We found the magazine to think of it and reflect by ourselves.