Dear faculty members,
young researchers, and students!

    Please be informed that from February 1 to April 30, 2026 (2 months), trial access will be provided to the leading databases of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI).
   Academic Journals Database
   China Academic Journals Full-text Database (CAJ)
   Provides integrated search across Chinese and international periodicals. The database includes more than 8,670 Chinese academic journals, including over 1,970 core journals of Peking University and more than 4,510 journals first published online, dating back to 1915, with a total of over 65 million full-text articles.
   Foreign-language academic journals include more than 75,000 titles from over 900 publishers in nearly 80 countries and regions, covering 96% of JCR journals and 90% of Scopus journals, dating back to the 19th century, and containing over 94 million foreign-language records linked to full texts.
   Dissertations and Theses Database
   China Doctoral/Masters' Thesis Full-text Database (CDMD)
   This database includes full-text doctoral and master’s theses in basic education in China and is distinguished by the completeness of its sources, high-quality literature, and continuous dynamic updates.
   The database contains more than 668,000 doctoral dissertations defended at 377 institutions and 6 million master’s theses defended at 521 institutions since 1984, covering natural sciences, engineering and technology, agriculture, medicine, philosophy, humanities, social sciences, and other fields.
   Leading Mainland China Newspapers Database
   China Core Newspapers Full-text Database (CCND)
   The China Core Newspapers database (CCND, 中国重要报纸全文数据库) contains full-text articles from leading newspapers of mainland China and includes more than 7 million articles dating back to 2000.
  CCND selects newspapers with strong influence, high-quality reporting, and broad readership, including central newspapers, industry and professional publications, as well as major government newspapers — totaling more than 650 titles.

 Conference Proceedings Databases
   Conference Proceedings Full-text Database (CPCD)
   The China Conference Proceedings Database (CPCD-CPFD, 中国重要会议论文全文数据库) is the most comprehensive full-text database of national conference proceedings in China.
   Through partnerships with more than 10,500 academic societies and associations, CPCD-CPFD includes over 2.8 million papers from more than 20,000 conference proceedings (some dating back to 1953), accounting for more than 90% of all national conference materials.
    Chinese Yearbooks Full-text Database
   China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD)
   Provides access to national and regional facts and statistical data from mainland China from 1949 to the present.
Yearbooks allow users to obtain comprehensive information about the country, a specific industry or sector, or a particular region, including politics, economy, science and technology, culture, and education. This is an indispensable reference resource containing authoritative data, literature, information, and useful research materials.
   China Economic and Social Statistics Database
   China Economic and Social Statistics Database (CSYD)
   The China Economic and Social Statistics Database (CSYD), part of CNKI, is a comprehensive digital repository of official statistical data from the Chinese government, covering national, provincial, and municipal levels.
   It provides access to more than 30,000 data volumes, including census and survey data across more than 18 industries since 1949, and offers search capabilities in both Chinese and English for in-depth economic research.
   CNKI Academic eBooks
   CNKI eBooks (CCGB)
The China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI, 中国知网) offers a collection of eBooks, providing researchers with access to more than 14,000 academic and historical eBooks from the most authoritative Chinese academic publishers.
   CNKI AI — Artificial Intelligence–Based Academic Research Tool
   CNKI AI is an advanced research platform that uses generative artificial intelligence (Huazhi LM model) and CNKI’s data resources to analyze Chinese academic publications.
Key features of CNKI AI include question answering, article search, collection-based search, intelligent text writing, and originality detection.
     Access is available from all library computers and
through the university’s internal network.