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World largest Chinese digital library opens in Beijing

The world's largest Chinese digital library, a database containing over 12 million documents or 25 percent of China's public information resources, opened on Saturday.


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The world's largest Chinese digital library, a database containing over 12 million documents or 25 percent of China's public information resources, opened on Saturday.

The digital library aims to make it possible for users to share 80 percent of China's intellectual resources through the Internet within three years. The database covers information from periodicals, newspapers, books, theses and on-line resources and information on many fields such as natural sciences, engineering and social sciences.

The most important feature of the database was that it operated professionally so users could find information efficiently, said Pan Longfa, president of the China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing House (CAJEPH).

The database was jointly developed by CAJEPH and Tsinghua Tongfang Optical Disc Co., Ltd (TTOD) eight years ago.

"During the construction of the database, we stressed the importance of protecting intellectual rights and paid over 31 million yuan (3.73 million US dollars) to writers," Pan said.

A survey by China's Press and Publication Administration in June showed Internet information resources included just 15 million Chinese documents on science, economy, culture and education, about 40 percent of the documents printed, and only 150,000 books with legal copyrights on the Internet, about five percent of the books available on the domestic market.


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