Superstar Digital Library (SDL), founded in 1993, is the most professional and comprehensive solution/resource providers for digital libraries worldwide. SDL has an impressive infrastructure of over 3500 employees and more than 20 widely distributed digital factories. Through devotion to research and development in digital publishing technologies since its outset, SDL has been recognized as a brand leader in the digital library world. It leads the way in the process of library digitization, relying on abundant publishing resources and constantly emerging publishing technologies.
Chinamaxx Digital Library (《超星中文电子书库》；www.chinamaxx.net)
Chinamaxx Digital Library (Chinamaxx), a selection of about 700,000 volumes of Chinese literature and the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of Chinese publications from both before and after 1949, includes in 22 major categories and 52 sub-categories under the Chinese Library Classification system. It covers all major academic fields, but has a special focus on Social Sciences and Humanities. Some source materials are uniquely included and not available elsewhere; this digital library strongly supports Chinese study, enhances Chinese research projects and facilitates the writing of academic papers. It also has a clean and simple user interface, a fast search function and an online reading mode, making it unnecessary to install any additional reading software.
1. Enter URL of the website: www.chinamaxx.net
2.If you are the IP user, you will see the following page when entering the URL of the website . Then click it to come to the home page.
If you are the account user, you will see the following page. Please input the account and the password.
When you access to "Chinamaxx" , you will see the home page.
New Var provides two methods to find out the e-books. You can input the title, the author, ISBN, and/or any other information of the e-books directly in the search bar at the top if you already know one of these. Otherwise, simply click any of the following categories if you just want to find related e-books to your research topic.
1.Users can read every book directly by clicking on the cover or the title of the book, and don't need to download any plug-in or software.
2.Click on the page to access the jpg reading.
3.IE reading: download and run the Plug-in.
4.OCR function: extract the text. For example,
1. In order to facilitate the readers, a personal library has been designed to help collect any interesting books to the user's own library.
2.If you are NOT a registered user, click the individual registration button in the upper right corner of Chinamaxx and do the registration.
3.Then you will jump to the page directly, where there is your account number and password, which you have just filled in. Please click on the button "user login".
4.If you are already a registered user, please click directly the "logout" button at the top of the first page, and fill out the account number and password to log in .
5.You can also click on the "FAQs" button at the top of the page to find solutions, or please contact us directly.
Duxiu Knowledge Search Database (《读秀中文学术搜索》；www.duxiu.com)
Duxiu (读秀) Academic Search Platform, a powerful Chinese knowledge searching system and the largest Chinese content provider, consists of over 2.4 million Chinese electronic books and journal articles, representing more than 1 billion full text pages. All items contained in ToCs (table of contents), chapter/section/subsection titles, key words and related knowledge points contained in text content can be searched, trial read and then provided precisely, completely, quickly, and conveniently to users such as scholars, teachers and students. They in turn can choose to read their desired content online or request electronic document deliveries via email. Duxiu is really a complete one stop solution if anyone would like to acquire or read Chinese academic content.
Superstar Academic Videos (《超星学术视频》；www.ssvideo.cn)
Superstar (超星) Academic Videos is a high-quality host of visual knowledge and outcomes of academic research. It is made up of rich content of over 7,580 courses from more than 6900 well-known experts and academic scholars in and outside China. Thanks to its unique blend of rich academic content, completeness of subjects, vivid teaching and learning manner, high-quality production, short renewal period of time, independent intellectual property rights and authentication, Superstar Academic Videos has been warmly welcomed by many universities, colleges, institutes and enterprises worldwide. With over 120,000 sets of videos, it includes items on literature, art, history, archaeology, law, philosophy, economics, engineering and other subjects, spanning nearly 100 academic research topics.
Wenshi Database (《超星文史资料库》)
Wenshi (文史) Database contains precious and authenticated historical data from China and executes the special role of "saving history, assisting government, promoting unity and educating people" in China. It is crucial to collect and republish these precious historical data, not only for scholars' research work but also for library collections worldwide. SDL has been carefully gathering Chinese cultural and historical data from various authenticated channels for many years, and is devoted to reorganizing and digitalizing these precious data into databases. In particular, a large part of the data was collected from communities, forming a unique database, unavailable elsewhere, which not only keeps the completeness of the historical data but also meets the users' special needs.
Dacheng Old Journals Database (《大成老旧期刊全文数据库》； www.dachengdata.com)
Dacheng (大成) Old Journals Database, launched in 2010, is unique as it collects journals published in China before 1949, including many exclusive titles, covering a full range of academic fields and adopting user-friendly interfaces. It includes about 7000 journal titles, 131,000 issues (10,000 new issues/year) and 1.3 million article titles published from late Qing Dynasty to 1949. This database has become an indispensable research tool for studies on Chinese modern history, literature, politics, law, sociology, economics and discipline histories amongst others. It can be searched via article (title and author, etc.) or journal (title, year, place of publication and organization, etc.) in simplified or traditional Chinese characters or English words. SDL has acted as one of the key agents for the Dacheng Old Journals Database for many years.
Daya Detection (《大雅相似度分析》；dsa.dayainfo.com)
Daya (大雅) Detection, developed by SDL and backed by its massive and unique access of comparative data across books, journals, newspapers and network literature, is the most effective similarity analysis system for Chinese content checking against already published material. Users can upload either single or bulk documents for checking and receive comparison reports. In addition, this system can offer either a "pay-per-year" system without any limitation on the amount of uploaded documents OR a "pay-per-paper" model dependent on the needs of different users. Daya Detection is a premium tool to aid academic research and help prevent research misconduct.