All students and faculty of UCASS can make use of the whole library system of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences including specialized libraries and reference rooms of its affiliated institutes. As a branch of the grand library system, UCASS library is situated on Liangxiang campus with a total collection of 463,800 books including over 357,000 books in Chinese, more than 48,400 books in foreign languages, more than 58,000 back issues of Chinese and foreign periodicals, more than 161 online databases, 57,000 full-text electronic journals in Chinese and foreign languages, and over 2 million copies of electronic books.

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Jiannan Poetry Note by Lu You, a renowned poet of Song Dynasty, printed in 1685, as an example of over 5000 antique book collections of UCASS Library.