China Geological Library

China Geological Library

The China Geological Library is a science education base.

Location: Haidian District, Beijing.

Introduction: Established in 1913 and affiliated with the China Geological Survey, the China Geological Library serves as the national center for earth sciences literature and the industry's main repository. Its current collection has reached 650,000 volumes, encompassing nearly 200 years of domestic and international geological literature since the early days of modern geology. Additionally, the library has over 20 years of experience in building and providing document databases, with a dedicated team for data processing, software development, and network construction. Its large-scale website (www.cgl.org.cn) offers more than 20 comprehensive and earth science literature databases in both Chinese and foreign languages, containing up to 30 million documents. Moreover, the library has established long-term document cooperation relationships with international geological information organizations, numerous domestic and international geological libraries, and geological information institutions, thereby broadening its sources of literature.