Welcome to the website of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Library of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. In order to ensure the protection of users' personal information, privacy and rights, this website has specially formulated a privacy and information security policy statement. Please read the following content carefully:

1. Scope of application:

The following privacy protection and website security policy applies to the collection, processing and protection of personal information involved in the activities of this website.

2. Collection and use of information:

This website does not collect any personal identity information simply by browsing and downloading files on this website.

This website will record information including but not limited to user IP addresses, online time, and web pages browsed on the website. These data are only used for specific purposes of information security, routine maintenance, and audit management, and are used by the website management unit for content and system improvement evaluation and website traffic and network behavior surveys. The total analysis is to improve the service quality of this website, and no analysis will be conducted on individual users.
This center has the obligation to protect the privacy of users and will never arbitrarily sell, exchange or rent any personal information to other groups or individuals. However, the following exceptions apply:
Cooperate with the legal investigation of judicial units.
Cooperate with relevant authorities in investigations based on job requirements.
3. Information Security Policy:

Use network intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change web page information or intentional damage.
Install firewalls to prevent illegal intrusion, damage or theft of data, prevent the website from being illegally used, and protect the rights of users.
Install anti-virus software, perform regular anti-virus scans, and provide users with a safe web browsing environment.
Update appropriate patches regularly according to notifications from relevant operating system manufacturers.

The Nationwide Document Delivery Service (NDDS) is a paid service for resource sharing between libraries. Through agreements with various cooperative organizations, it provides readers with photocopying and book borrowing services for journals, books, doctoral and master's theses, research projects, etc., so as to share what is needed and effectively maximize the value of each library's limited resources.

Application method

Account application: First-time users must first apply for an account at the National Document Delivery Service System. After the librarian approves your account, you can log in and use it.
Document application: Please fill in the application information in detail (such as article title, journal name, volume, year, page number, etc.), select one or more application units, and select the document delivery method. After the library receives the information, it will notify the reader to pay and pick up the document at the library.
Application for various types of information

Journal documents:

(1) Use Google, Google Scholar, Taiwan Journal Article Index, and our collection catalog and electronic resource system to confirm that the journal document you need is not available in our collection or on the Internet.

(2) Submit an application: Go to the National Document Delivery Service System, log in to the [Reader Area], fill in the journal information on the blank application form, select more than one library, and select the document delivery method before submitting the application. If the domestic library cannot obtain it, it will be transferred to a foreign library for assistance in copying.

Book borrowing/copying:
The application method is similar. You can first go to the National Library Catalog Information Network to check the collection status of domestic libraries.

Research reports:
(1) The application method is similar. Reports for NSC grant projects before 2001 can be found at //sticnet.stpi.narl.org.tw/sticloc/ttsweb?@0:0:1:nrpt_2004@@0.5916862605089077">NSC Research Project Report System.

(2) Reports from 2002 (inclusive) onwards can be found at the Government Research Information System (GRB).

Doctoral and Master's Dissertations:
(1) Domestic: First check the Taiwan Doctoral and Master's Dissertation Knowledge Value-Added System to confirm whether the full text has been opened for direct download. If it is confirmed that it cannot be downloaded, fill out an application form at the National Document Delivery Service System. However, due to the provisions of the Copyright Law and fair use, the number of copies of materials cannot exceed one-third of the entire book, and the library being applied for cannot provide the full text of the dissertation.

(2) Overseas: Please click [Overseas] → [Copy] in the National Document Delivery Service System.

Processing speed

Under normal circumstances, it takes about 1-2 working days in China; 2-7 days abroad (mailing is not included in this range).

If you have any questions about the library-to-library service, please contact the library. (Extension: 4041)

Guidelines for the Handling of Donated Books and Materials for the Library of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Approved at the 8th Executive Council on August 14, 2018

1. In order to effectively handle donated books and materials from all walks of life and to enrich the research resources of the Library, the Library of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the Library) has formulated the "Guidelines for the Handling of Donated Books and Materials for the Library of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare" (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines).

2. The books and materials referred to in the Guidelines include books, periodicals, databases, and audio-visual materials in paper or electronic media.

3. All individuals or groups within or outside the Institute who donate books and materials to the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) are subject to the Guidelines.

4. The Library accepts books and materials related to academic research and traditional Chinese medicine in principle. If any of the following circumstances occur, it may be rejected:

(1) Pirated or in violation of the Copyright Law.

(2) The Library already has a copy or new version.

(3) Damaged and unusable or incomplete.

(IV) Those with underlines, notes, and marginal comments.

(V) Those whose contents have lost their validity and have no academic and reference value.

(VI) Occasional single issues of periodicals, newspapers, and incomplete books.

(VII) Various promotional brochures.

(VIII) Examination books

(IX) Others that do not comply with the library's collection policy.

If it is difficult to choose or there is a dispute, relevant persons may be invited to assist in handling it if necessary.

V. Donation method:

(I) Donation outside the institute:

Donors please fill in the "National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Library Donated Books and Materials Processing Form" (Appendix 1) and the "National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Library Donated Books and Materials List" (Appendix 2), and send them to the library's e-mail box, or hand them over to the library's counter staff.

After the library reviews the two copies of the information and sends a confirmation letter, the donor may deliver the books and materials to the library's borrowing and returning counter during the library's opening hours or mail the donated books.
If the books and materials are sent to the library without receiving a confirmation letter and without attaching a book donation processing form and a list of donated books, the library will handle them at its sole discretion, and the donor shall not have any objection.
(II) Donations by internal staff: For large-scale donations of books by employees of the library, the library may assign colleagues to go to the site (limited to the building of the library) to collect books that meet the library's collection policy and handle them in accordance with the fourth point.

VI. Reward method:

Depending on the type and quantity of donated books and materials, the library may send a letter of thanks or a certificate of thanks to the donor to express gratitude; for large-scale donations or donations that are deemed valuable by the library, the donor will be noted as a token of gratitude.

VII. If the library is deemed to be a precious book, it will be handled in accordance with the "Key Points for the Management of Precious Movable and Immovable Property of Central Government Agencies".

8. The subsequent collection, display, transfer or other handling of donated books and materials may be handled at the library's sole discretion, and the donor shall not attach any conditions or have any objection.

IX. These points shall be announced and implemented after being approved by the Executive Council of the Institute, and the same shall apply to any revisions.

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Collection Development Guidelines of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Amended on February 15, 2011

Proposed at the Institute Meeting on January 11, 2011

Approved at the Institute Meeting on March 15, 2011

Amended and approved at the First Administrative Meeting on January 13, 2014

Amended and approved at the First Institute Meeting on January 14, 2014

I. Purpose and Objectives

This "Specialized Library" is established in accordance with Article 4 of the "Library Act" to collect information on books on specific themes or types, to support the parent institution, the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the Institute), in the research and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and to provide application and information services for the purposes of collection, display, education, etc., and to develop into an academic, cultural, and educational research resource center for traditional Chinese medicine.

2. Service Target

Our colleagues are our main service targets. We will provide necessary and appropriate services to other academic institutions, groups with research needs, people outside our institute, guests participating in our academic exchange activities, and the general public, depending on the situation.

3. Mission

(i) Provide various information resources required by our researchers.

(ii) Assist readers to learn how to use relevant information resources to increase the utilization rate of information resources.

(iii) Collect various types of information related to our research and development direction.

(iv) Strive to make the library a digital library.

4. Subject Scope of Collection

All resources related to pharmacy, medicine, and our research topics are within the scope of the library.

5. Collection Policy for Various Types of Information

(i) General Policy

(1) Information that complies with copyright law.

(2) Collect research literature related to traditional Chinese medicine, mainly in Chinese and English, followed by Japanese, and other language works are handled on a case-by-case basis.

(3) In addition to the above Chinese works, we will also collect classic historical books on Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine health care, and popular medical knowledge.

(4) Western medicine works that are beneficial to Chinese medicine research or clinical research will be collected.

(5) Special collections: The Institute's publications, journals, annual reports, and doctoral and master's theses awarded by the Institute will be collected.

(II) Collection policy

(1) Books

1. Basic, learning, and research professional books of various disciplines.

2. Professional books of various disciplines published by publishers in Europe and the United States will be given priority, and the latest edition or those published within the past five years will be given priority.

(2) Reference books

1. Basic reference books of various disciplines and types should be collected extensively, such as pharmacopoeias of various countries.

2. The evaluation principles are content scope, arrangement method, publisher authority, and version novelty.

3. For those with online versions, the online version will be given priority. Depending on the needs, a set of printed books may be ordered for library collection and for retrieval and reference at any time.

(3) Periodicals

1. Professional periodicals recommended by researchers and included in the international professional academic evaluation index database will be given priority.

2. For full-text electronic periodicals, online versions will be purchased as the main method.

3. The library may formulate appropriate and reader-friendly methods for adding and deleting periodicals based on the budget situation, and implement them after approval by the Library Committee, so as to achieve a satisfactory and balanced use of funds and reader needs.

(4) Electronic resources

1. Content includes online bibliographic extracts, online full-text periodicals, online e-books and free online resources.

2. Participate in alliances and purchase in an alliance manner to reduce the use of funds.

3. The collection of free online resources is based on the principle of not infringing on the intellectual property rights of others, and attention should be paid to the accuracy, objectivity, novelty and authority of the content.

(5) Audiovisual multimedia

1. The basic purchasing principle is to purchase materials that comply with the relevant provisions of the Copyright Law and have the copyright for public broadcasting.

2. Priority is given to professional audiovisual materials within the scope of the collection.

3. For audiovisual materials with the same content but published in different formats, priority is given to those that are easy to preserve, do not take up space, and are in line with the development trend of science and technology.

(6) Core collection

1. The core collection is the necessary and frequently referenced materials recommended by each group. The library will list them as important collection materials and actively order them in a standing order mode.

2. Whether the content of the core collection has changed, each group must evaluate and update it every five years.

VI. Copy control

The principle of the library's collection materials is not to purchase additional copies. However, for materials that belong to the core collection of the library, the library may purchase additional copies based on actual conditions.

VII. Access Channels

(I) Recommendation and Selection: Book recommendations are mainly in the three major disciplines of Chinese medicine, pharmacology and chemistry (including plants and tissue culture). Books are accepted at any time, and a list of recommended books is submitted regularly every month for selection by the library committee; journals and databases are subject to renewal surveys every year. Based on the recommendations and renewal surveys, the library committee is requested to review and select and decide whether to order.

(II) Procurement: After various books and materials are selected and approved, they will be processed in accordance with the relevant procurement regulations of the institute based on the budget.

(III) Donation and Exchange

(1) For all materials applicable to the collection scope, the library accepts donations or obtains them through exchange and stores them for readers to use.

(2) The library reserves the right to handle the donated materials, including collection, elimination, transfer or other disposal methods.

(3) For the copies of books received as donations, only the second copy (set) will be retained in the library collection at most, and the third copy (set) will not be collected.

8. Collection Elimination

The library will handle the elimination of various types of collections in accordance with the following regulations.

(1) Resolution of the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, No. 09294, dated December 7, 2001: For libraries that meet the provisions of Article 4 of the "Library Act", all books purchased by them shall be classified as property. As for magazines purchased by them, if they are recognized by the library as having collection value, they shall be classified as property. Otherwise, they shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the "Property Standard Classification" regarding property and non-property.

(2) Article 14 of the "Library Act" stipulates: If the collection is damaged, lost, lost its preservation value, or unusable, the library may scrap it within a range of no more than 3% of the collection each year.

9. Interlibrary Cooperation

With limited funds, in order to effectively meet the information needs of the library's service objects, the library joins the operation model of interlibrary cooperation-related organizations or alliances, and takes the development goal of cooperation mechanisms such as document delivery services and alliance purchase of electronic resources as the development goal, so as to improve the overall service efficiency of the library.

10. Formulation and revision of the collection development policy

This policy is drafted by the library and submitted to the library committee for approval and then submitted to the library affairs meeting for approval before implementation. The same applies to revisions.

Borrowing Rules

Key Points for Borrowing from the Library of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Approved by the Institute Affairs Meeting on January 18, 2000

Amended and approved by the Institute Affairs Meeting on December 11, 2018

Chapter 1 General Provisions

1. The Library of the National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (hereinafter referred to as the Library) shall establish these Key Points in accordance with Article 8 of the Library Act.

2. The Library’s main mission is to collect documents related to traditional Chinese medicine and research of the Institute. The books and information collected are only available for borrowing by colleagues of the Institute.

3. Reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, yearbooks, encyclopedias, etc.), special collection materials (such as rare books, etc.), editing materials, and periodicals (including bound volumes) shall not be borrowed.

4. Reference books and periodicals may be borrowed overnight as needed by the Institute’s staff.

Chapter 2 Application for Library Cards

5. Researchers and administrative staff of the Institute may apply for library cards of the Library with the service certificates issued by the Institute and go through the borrowing procedures of the Library in accordance with the Borrowing Rules of the Library.

6. Graduate students can apply for library cards only after obtaining the consent of their teachers and registering their teachers as guarantors. The missing books list will be notified to teachers and graduate students by e-mail. Teachers are the relevant persons responsible for graduate students to borrow books.

7. Research assistants of our institute can apply for library cards of our library as independent borrowers after verification and recording in personnel data, without the need for the head of the research room to serve as a guarantor.

Chapter 3 Book Borrowing

8. The total number of books that can be borrowed by each type of reader: 50 books for researchers, 5 books for administrative staff, 5 books for research assistants, and 5 books for graduate students.

9. Borrowing period: The borrowing period is four weeks.

10. Renewal: After the book expires and no one has made an appointment, it can be renewed once. If someone has made an appointment, it cannot be renewed and the book should be returned.

Chapter 4 Overnight Borrowing

11. Number of books: The total number of books borrowed each time is limited to five.

12. Borrowing period: Return within one hour before closing time and before 10:00 am on the next opening day.

Chapter 5 Reservations

13. If the book that the borrower intends to borrow has been lent out by someone else, he/she may make a reservation. Once the book is lent out, the reader’s reservation will be accepted. The total number of books reserved by each person is five. If the reserved materials are not borrowed within five days after arrival at the library, it will be deemed as giving up the reservation.

Chapter 6 Overdue Penalties

14. If the book is not returned on time, the borrowing right will be suspended for one day for each day overdue.

15. If the book is not returned after two months, it will be deemed to be damaged and handled in accordance with the damage compensation method in Chapter 7.

Chapter 7 Damage Compensation

16. The various types of book resources borrowed shall not have circles, annotations, stains, corners, tears, etc., and shall not be lost. If there is damage or loss, the borrower shall be responsible for compensation, and the compensation shall be handled in one of the following ways:

(1) Compensation for the same resource.

(2) Repayment with a newer version of the same resource approved by the library.

(3) Repayment shall be made at three times the purchase price (or marked price) of the resource.

Chapter 8 Suspension

17. If the borrower fails to pay the compensation for loss or damage, he shall bear the relevant legal responsibility, and the library shall have the right to suspend his use of the library card.

Chapter 9 Supplementary Provisions

18. The reproduction and use of books and materials shall comply with the provisions of the Copyright Law. If there is any violation of the law, the consequences shall be borne by the borrower.

19. These rules shall be implemented after being approved by the Institute Affairs Meeting and signed by the Director, and the same shall apply when they are amended.

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.