(a) Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) [12] , (b) Chinese Medical Current Content (CMCC) [13] , Users of traditional Chinese characters can use Yahoo! Taiwan Academia Search [20] whose mainland Chinese journal article entries are provided by iLib. In addition, Google Scholar [21, 22] , as a multi-lingual bibliographic database, also facilitates searches in the Chinese language (Table 2) As a recent paper [23] has given a detailed description and analyses of five of the Chinese bibliographic databases, the following discussion is restricted to three of them: Google scholar as related to searches in Chinese has not yet been covered by any academic paper in English and the same is true of iLib, which is not covered by [23] ; Wan Fang database, which is freely available through terminals in the British Library, will be used as an example to illustrate the wealth of biomedical journals available to us through the internet.