As a preeminent research organization in Taiwan, Academia Sinica has devoted to the preservation of its academic resources. Since 1980, Academia Sinica has started digitizing the archives and collections of its institutes. The Scripta Sinica database, officially accessible online since 1995, can rival the famous huge Chinese Ancient books database, Si Ku Quan Shu, in Ch'ing Dynasty. This online system has received much attention and has been used in Taiwan and worldwide. Since 2002, Academia Sinica has enlarged the digitization projects of its important collections, and made them available over the Internet. The contents include Taiwan's fishes, shells, aboriginal artifacts, paleography, ancient maps and contracts, and also include modern China's historical maps, remote sensing imagery, diplomatic and economic records, Chinese historical artifacts (such as archeological materials, engraved stones, stone and bronze rubbing, bamboo scripts, rare books, ethnological collection of Southwestern China, and the lexicon of Ming-Qing Archives), and Mandarin Chinese and Formosa language archives.

There are nearly one hundred digital resources. Users can access these resources online via Internet, without needs to be physically present in the library, museum, or archive centers. There are 150 websites and over 1 million items of digital archives, accessible through the Internet portal, Academia Sinica Digital Resources. This is the world's largest Traditional Chinese digital database.