The Library of OUC is composed of the two libraries on Yushan Campus and Fushan Campus respectively as well as those Reference Rooms of each colleges and departments. The Library on Yushan Campus was moved into the current building in 1985, while the one on Fushan Campus has been put to use since 1992. With a total area of 15,600 square meters, the Library boasts 800 seats. The new Library on Laoshan Campus with a floorage of 48,000 square meters is currently under construction.

The Conventional Resources of the Library

Up to now, the OUC Library houses a total volume of one million books and is categorized as the 2nd grade book collection. The commonly used books and journals of various specialties are collected by the university library and those periodicals and reference books on some specific areas are collected by the reference rooms of relevant colleges or department s .

The library has the collections as follows :

•  640,000 books in Chinese ( Korean books included ), 160,000 books in English, Japanese and Russian;

•  200,000 bound volumes of back issues, among which 60,000 are in Chinese, 90,000 in English, Japanese and Russian;

•  Some 1,500 newspapers and periodicals in Chinese and 443 in other languages have been subscribed;

•Over 4,000 items of audiovisual.

The circulation stack room for borrowing and reading books	The reading room for periodicals — spacious and bright

The data bank of dissertations by Ph. D and masters' degrees holders

The Library houses the complete passages of over 200,000 doctors and masters' dissertations in Chinese as well as 80,000 dissertations by Ph. D and masters' degrees holders from North American universities , in addition to enormous data bank on the digest of dissertations.

To facilitate the usage and popularization of the digital resources, two electronic reading rooms containing 160 computers have been furnished in the Library, which are open free of charge to the readers of the university.

The electronic reading rooms offer services of surfing on the Internet, e-mailing as well as searching disc database and net database . Other services include operating multimedia electronic publications , reading on line, video program selection and training on database searching.

The wireless network system for readers to acquire the information resources of the Library is in place, covering the inside of the main Library buildings of both campuses and certain space in front of the main entrance to the Library.

The digital library of OUC is available around the clock to faculty and students for the documents they need free of charge via the campus net, accessible in laboratories, offices, dormitories or libraries.

DIGITAL LIABRARY RESOURCES

Over two million yuan is invested each year for the discipline reinforcement at OUC by means of introducing electronic resources, which highlights the OUC feature while giving full play to the development of comprehensive disciplines, with both academic and other resources involved. At present, the OUC Digital Library commands the following resources.

•  Nearly 50 electr onic resource databases in Chinese and foreign languages

•  More than 100,000 kinds of Chinese electr onic books

•  More than 10,000 kinds of periodicals with full text in Chinese and foreign languages respectively

•  Up to 200,000 full length theses of Doctor and Master degree from domestic universities

•  More than 3,000,000 pieces of information on Doctor and Master degree theses of overseas universities, including more than 80,000 original doctoral theses from North America

• Professional d igest databases on CA 、 BP 、 EI 、 ASFA and c omprehensive d igest databases on CSA provide tens of millions of pieces of information

Foreign Databases

Full text databases involve the Elsevier SDOS, Association for Computing Machinery, American Chemical Society, American Society of Plant Biologists, ASP (including academic periodicals full text) and BSP (business source full text), ARL Academic Research Library and Kluwer Online.

Both general and professional, these databases are of high quality electronic sources receiving international recognition , with more than 10,000 full text periodicals covering all but disciplines at OUC .

Databases on abstracts command BIOSIS Preview, Chemical Abstracts, Cambridge Science Abstracts, Engineering Index, Food Science and Technology Abstracts.

Other services offered by the Library

Inter-library Loan

Index for Tracing Original Texts — a service for resource sharing by turning to other institutions in agreement — is offered to those who demand information source unavailable at OUC . The details of these services can be obtained in the column of inter-library loan at the homepage of the Library.

Inquiry of new t echnology

The I nquiry Center for State-of-the-Art at OUC L ibrary is among the first twenty nine work stations for inquiry at the level of Education Ministry , undertaking the state-of-the-art searching before the scientific research programs are certified as well as inquiring the latest scientific fruits and patents. The details of these services can be obtained in the column of Inquiry Center for State-of-the-art at the homepage of library.)

Books Donated from abroad

Qingdao International Education Exchange Service in our Library is one of the three national transferring centers founded by the Ministry of E ducation for re ceiving and transferring books donated to China from overseas NGOs . The past years saw an important role it has played in the construction of foreign language document resources in the libraries of colleges and universities across the country.

The staff of the Library sincerely welcomes the faculty and students to make use of the various resources at the L ibrary. Please contact us for comment and advice.