The Library of the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) is an FAO contracted library that has a collection of over 230,000 books in Chinese and other languages.

　 The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the ISSCAS and the researchers and students around the country. So far, it has acquired more than 40 databases, covering over 3000 foreign STM full text journals and an increasing number of full text proceedings and reference books.