Research on China Academic Social Sciences and Humanities Library

Abstract

China Academic Social Sciences and Humanities Library (CASHL) is a platform that provides foreign language literature and related information services for the teaching and research of Chinese philosophy and social sciences (SS). CASHL has established a complete “co-construction and sharing” mechanism covering China, which currently has 881 member libraries and more than 136,000 individual registered users. So far, CASHL has provided services for more than 24,600 core humanities and social sciences and important journals, more than 2 million printed books, and 12 electronic resource databases. It has provided a total of nearly 22 million literature services (LS), including manual LS. CASHL has established China’s largest and most comprehensive humanities and SS document guarantee system. This article mainly adopts the method of case analysis to study CASHL from the perspectives of development ideas, resources, management and service system, aimed at introducing readers to China’s literature resource guarantee in the fields of philosophy and SS.