This library provides specialized information resources on Chinese medical science. The main purpose of this library is to support the researchers in the institute, and provides archive, exhibition, education, and also informative services. We serve our fellow workers mainly, but it’s also open to public who are interested in Chinese medical science.

The general collection area stores books in Chinese, English, and Japanese.

The low bookshelves around the central area store the hardcover, classic books of Chinese medicine, and also the important reference books, like herb pharmacopeia, herb illustration, and kinds of dictionaries.

There’s a special area behind the low bookshelves for NRICM publications, storing the books, journals, and annual reports published by NRICM. They are mainly the research results in Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, and Chinese medical history, etc.

About journal resources, the library provides online electronic database mainly, like China Academic Journals Full-text Database (CJFD), and Chemical database (Reaxys). They can be used anywhere in the institute, or the computer in our library.

The exhibition area now are recent NRICM publications, including the books about biological resources from the educational herb garden, research compilation of Chinese herbal medicine in educational herb garden, the biography of Dr. Tsung-Ming Tu, the pioneer of integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and also a serial of e-learning materials which introduce Chinese medical concept in common clinical diseases or symptoms to teach public how to prevent and do the self-care.