The Republican Scientific and Technical Library (RSTL) and its branches have been granted trial access to Wanfang Data, one of the leading providers of Chinese e-resources. Access is provided by IVIS and is available from 9 November to 8 December 2026.
What is Wanfang Data
A multilingual platform with scholarly information from China. The interface can be switched to Russian or English, and machine translation is available for texts, including a side-by-side mode for reading the original and the translation.
What is available during the trial
- Chinese online journals: about 8,500 titles, over 50 million articles, archive since 1998, with around 3 million new articles added each year.
- Dissertations: about 5.2 million full-text master’s and doctoral theses since 1980.
- Conference proceedings: 3.3 million papers from about 46,000 academic conferences.
- Patents: over 156 million records, including more than 40 million Chinese and more than 110 million foreign patents.
- Standards: Chinese national and industry standards, plus abstracts of foreign standards, over 2 million records in total.
- Laws and regulations: over 1.5 million full-text documents.
Volumes are given as of February 2024.
Subject coverage: natural and engineering sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and healthcare, agriculture, industrial technology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, education, literature and the arts.
Platform features
- unified search across all resource types, and advanced search with filters by year, document type and subject;
- journal browsing with ISSN, founding year and impact factor;
- publication page with abstract, keywords, DOI and citation list;
- export of bibliographic records in GB/T 7714, MLA and APA formats, as well as to EndNote, BibTeX, RefWorks, NoteExpress and NoteFirst;
- AI services: smart search and Q&A, help with choosing research topics and reviewing literature, patent analysis.
Who it is for
Researchers, lecturers, postgraduate and undergraduate students. The platform will be useful for anyone working with Chinese scientific literature, technical documentation, patents and standards.
