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Infrastructure (CNKI) as the largest constructor of academic resources in China, for example,
has expanded its business from domestic journals to domestic and oversea journals, conference
proceedings, dissertations, important newspaper articles, patents, standards, and so on. From book
resource aspect, is has collected a large number of books, provided query service of yearbooks
and reference books, and set up a teaching aid platform recently (“China National Knowledge
Infrastructure”, 2015). Another important academic resources service provider – Wanfang Data
Knowledge Service Platform (“Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform”, 2015), also provides
academic resources such as domestic journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, patents,
standards, local chronicles, laws and regulations, science and technology achievements, books,
industry organizations, experts, and scholars. There are other resource constructors like VIP
Journal Integration Platform (VJIP) having great achievements in academic resource constructions.
Currently these resource constructors hold more non-book resources than most libraries in China.
And most of the university libraries in China even have to rely on the academic resource services
provided by these resource constructors.
A “Superstar Digital Library” mainly providing book services was constructed by Beijing
Century Superstar Information Technology Development co., LTD. The digital library contains
over 50 categories such as literature, economy, computer and so on, millions of electronic books,
over 5 million academic articles with the full text in extent of 1.3 billion pages (“Superstar Digital
Library”, 2015), and has reached the book collection scale of a large library. Someday it will
exceed the quantity of book collections of the majority of libraries in China. In addition, this digital
library has collected approximately 200,000 sets of academic videos (“Superstar Digital Library”,
2015), which has a big impact on the traditional digital libraries in China.
In the construction of literature resources, in addition to the above academic resource
constructors, some network resource providers also have joined. For example, Baidu has entered
the field of academic resources (“Baidu”, 2015). It offers Baidu library, Baidu encyclopedia, as
well as hundreds of thousands of books. The Baidu scholar search launched in 2014 even provides
the academic information which cannot be obtained from the traditional digital libraries. Baidu
scholar search is a one-stop academic resource search platform which provides large amounts
of English or Chinese, paid or free literature for retrieval, and has become a perfect assistant in
academic research. The amount of information currently possessed by Baidu is estimated to be
more than 1,000 PB, equivalent to 50,000 times of the amount of digitized data in the National
Library. The daily increment is estimated to be 10 TB, equivalent to half of the digitized data in
the National Library (“Industry Data Quantity of China in 2013”, 2015). Of course, such a simple
comparison in the amount of data between Baidu and National Library may not be appropriate,
because the National Library has a greater advantage in the quality and specification of data,
and now the National Library also collects plenty of digital resources, image video materials and
information from the Internet. The comparison in the amount of data here is to attract the attention
of librarians, and remind the traditional library industry of the situation.