Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies

Since 2012 the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) program has been established at major universities and research institutes throughout the world to promote:

• Chinese Studies with particular Taiwanese characteristics.
• international exchanges in Chinese studies.
• Taiwan's achievements in Sinology, and to collaboratively build a global sinological resource and information platform.

In 2015 the TRCCS project was awarded the 2015 American Libraries Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects, an award for outstanding global development programs that share academic resources globally in the fields of Chinese arts, culture, history and social sciences.

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The Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) was established in the ANU Library in November 2015.

The Centre includes over 1,000 scholarly resources primarily in the fields of history, religion, culture, literature, society and politics, as well as cross-strait relations. The ANU community can access the Centre's books and DVDs via the Library catalogue, and the unique online scholarly resources for Taiwan and Chinese studies below:

• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan (臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統) (provided by the National Central Library of Taiwan)
• PerioPath: Index to the Taiwan Periodical Literature System (臺灣期刊論文索引系統) provided by the National Central Library of Taiwan
• Union Catalogue of Rare Books Database (中文古籍聯合目錄) (provided by the National Central Library of Taiwan)
• Rare Books Image Search System (古籍影像檢索系統) (provided by the National Central Library of Taiwan)
• Stone Rubbings [Digital Archive of the National Taiwan University Library] (金石拓片資料) (provided by the National Central Library of Taiwan)
• Digital Archive of Rare Books (善本古籍數位典藏系統) (provided by the National Taiwan Normal University Library)
• Taiwan under Japanese Rule: Full-Text Image (日治時期圖書全文影像系統) (provided by the National Taiwan Library)
• Full-Text Image System for Periodicals of Japanese Ruled Period (日治時期期刊全文影像系統) (provided by the National Taiwan Library)

The ANU Library welcomes the agreement with the National Central Library of Taiwan, which enabled the Centre to be established at the University. Resources in the Centre will continue to increase in the coming years as a result of the agreement.