Access Range: Campus Network Only

Access Address: Online Access

The Dingxiu Ancient Books Full-Text Database is a major collection offering genuine full-text search capabilities for ancient texts. This comprehensive database platform has been developed by our company through the long-term accumulation and collection of resources from various institutional and private collectors worldwide. In its development, we have adhered to the principles of "excellence" and "comprehensiveness," aiming to present the full spectrum of characteristic Chinese ancient books. We are proud to offer scholars and experts a specialized database capable of searching nearly 20,000 titles, comprising 400,000 volumes. With just a click, you can access a rich treasure trove of ancient literature.

Key Features:

Full-Text Search:Features include Quick Search, Advanced Search, and In-Book Search. Users can search by Category, Division, Subdivision, Book Title, Author, Publication Date, Number of Volumes, Edition, and more. Every character within every book is searchable.

Image-Text Comparison:Supports different viewing modes: Original Image View, Text View, and Side-by-Side Image/Text View. This allows for character-by-character, line-by-line comparison between the original scanned images and the modern transcribed text.

Direct Browser Reading:Accessible directly via web browsers—a green, convenient, and fast reading solution requiring no additional software installation.

Rich Personalization Tools:Supports text editing, copying, and pasting to facilitate use in academic research. Includes bookmarking for easy return to specific sections and note-taking functionality for recording insights during reading.

High-Speed Search Engine:Utilizes an ultra-fast text search engine combined with a distributed server cluster, enabling searches across hundreds of millions of characters in just one second. Offers instant page-turning with no waiting.

Preservation of Original Appearance:Texts are digitized using high-resolution, full-page scanning to maintain their authentic original appearance. The image data of the literary classics is presented intact without any reduction, preserving inscriptions, commentaries, seals, and other marks exactly as they appear on the original pages.