Collection of roughly 300 English and Chinese language newspapers from the late Qing and Republican period. The included papers are mostly short-lived local and regional papers. The database is part of Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引

Collection of more than 1 Mio. images extracted from late Qing and Republican books, newspapers and journals and organized in sixteen categories including: Photography, Painting, Calligraphy, Woodcut, Manuscripts, Comics, Maps, Sculptures, Musical Scores, and Epigraphy.

Collection of 120,000 late Qing and Republican e-books from Shanghai Library including many rare titles. Books are full-text searchable. Database includes author biographies, and cross-references to other Shanghai Library databases (especially for late Qing and Republican journals and newspapers). Especially interesting for literature and cross-cultural studies. Download of single pages is possible. Database clusters similar titles which is especially useful for research on the history of translation of Western literature or scientific knowledge.

The Ichushi web contains bibliographic information in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, nursing, psychology, welfare, and related areas, published from 1903 to the present. It adds approximately 400,000 documents annually from around 4,000 periodicals published in Japan, with about half of these journals accessible online. These periodicals include academic journals, specialty magazines from medical publishers, and university bulletins.

Library Stack is a new kind of archive and lending library: a virtual emulation of received library protocols for collecting, indexing, preserving and sharing. Objects in the collection are held in a durable repository for long-term access and bibliographically cataloged for discovery. By translating the protean publishing of the cultural sphere into institutional databases, Library Stack increases its visibility and contextualizes it within a wider landscape of thought, practice and publishing.