University of Pittsburgh Library System

The Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) is a collaborative initiative designed to promote international exchange in Chinese and Taiwan studies. Its mission is to foster partnerships with leading research centers and universities worldwide, expand academic exchange in Sinology and Taiwan studies, and jointly develop a global platform for sinological resources and information. This effort aims to broaden and deepen cultural dialogue between the Eastern and Western worlds.

On June 24, 2024, the East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh officially established its TRCCS. As a partner institution, Pitt’s East Asian Library receives books and electronic resources published in Taiwan, enriching its collections and promoting Taiwanese academic contributions. The University also gains access to digital resources from the National Central Library (NCL) within copyright guidelines. Additionally, when the NCL hosts academic events such as conferences, workshops, and lectures, TRCCS partner institutions like Pitt are invited to participate, further enhancing academic collaboration and increasing global awareness of Taiwan’s achievements in Chinese studies.

Please email  Runxiao Zhu, ruz117@pitt.edu if you have any questions.

Electronic databases provided by the TRCCS

臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan

“NDLTD-Taiwan” is the only database system that has consistently been collecting theses and dissertations from colleges and universities in Taiwan from 1956 to the present. Currently the database contains more than one million metadata records with abstracts, of which more than 420,000 theses and dissertations are available as open-access full-text images.

漢學研究中心專題資料庫 Subject Databases Integrated Search System

This database has been under development since January 2009. It includes journals published by the Center for Chinese Studies。

臺灣記憶 Taiwan Memory

The “Taiwan Memory” system updated its structure in 2016. Presently it has collected more than 267,000 items and more than 2.78 million pages of images, while its digital resources continue to grow.

政府公報資訊網 National Central Library Gazette Online

The Government Gazette as a collection of major national decrees & regulations. Its purpose is to archive original military & political measures, acts & proclamations, personnel assignments & removals, minutes of meetings, etc. that are of value to researchers of modern history.

台灣華文電子書庫 Taiwan eBook

The Taiwan eBook Database is an open access resource for reading traditional Chinese ebook online. No login and viewer download needed and designed for all devices. The database provides the books are published from 1911-1949, subject content includes general, religion and philosophy, science and engineering, agriculture and fishing, medicine and home management, economics and finance, education, society, politics and law and military affairs, history and geography, language and literature, and art.

台灣人文及社會科學引文索引資料庫 Taiwan Citation Index – Humanities and Social Sciences

This database provides simple-search and advanced-search functions for the following:

• Selected peer-reviewed journals selected academic books or academic book chapters, and dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.
• Citations of the above-mentioned indexed works.
• “Impact Factor” (IF) of journals indexed in this database.
• Cited counts of journals, individual dissertations, academic books and academic book chapters, and universities. Statistics of the above could be by year, by five-year range, or be an all-years cumulative statistic. The statistics could also be limited by subject fields.
  Although this is a citation index database that does not directly provide full-text images, the search results provide hyperlinks to guide searchers to the associated articles, theses, or dissertations contained in the Taiwan Periodical Literature database or in the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan database respectively.

日治時期臺灣文獻暨館藏南方資料影像系統 NTL Collection of Data image system for Southern Archives

The library’s “Southern Materials Image System” covers materials from the Japanese colonial period related to Japan, China (including Manchuria and southern China), Korea (Joseon), and the South Seas (Nanyang). This resource provides researchers with access to valuable historical materials on the southern regions and supports scholarly work in related fields.

古籍與特藏文獻資源 Rare Books & Special Collections-National Central Library

古籍與特藏文獻資源索引資料庫 Rare Books & Special Collection Index

By the end of 2022, the National Central Library’s rare books and special collections system contained a total of 844,034 metadata records. Furthermore, 12,967 rare books had been digitized and made available online. These include national treasures, important antiquities, Dunhuang manuscripts, Song/Jin/Yuan editions, significant drafts, transcriptions, annotated copies, illustrated books, major Ming literary anthologies, and printed editions of drama and fiction. The digitized collection includes approximately 7,463,845 images of rare books and 20,746 rubbings of inscriptions on stone and metal.

國萃學報 The Bulletin of National Essence database

The Bulletin of National Essence database contains works from the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the importance of the study of academic history was emphasized and criticisms and essays that reflect the contents of such in the past and at the time were sought. There were eighty-two issues published between February 23, 1905, and March 1911. Each issue included both authored articles of the time and manuscripts by past sages, including their portrait. From Issue 26, a pictorial encyclopedic column to list domestic plants and animals with illustrations was included. There are over six hundred images contained in this database, including rubbings, calligraphies, paintings, illustrations, and more. The total searchable entries in this database counted more than three thousand, providing access to full-text images of more than one thousand pieces of writings.

中研院經典人文學刊 Sinica Sinoweb

Sinica Sinoweb (中研院經典人文學刊) is the most in-depth, complete, and accurate research tool of Taiwan humanities. Access the latest research in modern and oral history, philology, drama and art, Chinese literature and philosophy, and more. Read up on the latest archaeological findings from the prestigious Bulletin of the History and Philology Institute or access the Contemporary Neo-Confucianism Database, Legein Monthly, containing the most complete writings of the great master of Mou Zong-San (牟宗三). Sinica Sinoweb delivers these and more from the deep archives of Acadamia Sinica in Taipei.