Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences is the documentation, intelligency and information support center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai. It also is the subunit of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS). Our center was united from the former Shanghai Documentation and Intelligency Center, academic journals, societies, network engineering and archives units based on the general characters of information services and the innovative development of SIBS in June 2002. As a part of the innovative system construction of SIBS, our center arranged funds and resources effectively, and grew into an integrated information service institution with united aim, powerful function, innovative management and advanced service, so as to effectively dispose information resources and proper technology support onto the important frontier of technology innovation and to ensure the prospectivity and innovation of scientific researches.

Developing Aim

Apart from the documentation and intelligency center of SIBS in Shanghai, we aim at becoming into a life sciences information center that is in the highest flight in China and the first-class in the world; we also aim to become into one of the most important information exchanging bases of life sciences home and abroad. We would offer timely and networked information services for customers of SIBS, Shanghai and the whole China at large.