Books include classics, educational monographs, textbooks, knowledge reference books and popular science books. It is the most diverse, largest and oldest information resource in educational science literature.

2. newspapers

Newspapers and periodicals are serial publications. Newspapers are regular and continuous publications, which mainly publish news and comments. Periodicals are regular or irregular continuous publications, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly and quarterly. Newspapers and periodicals are important references for researchers because of their short publishing cycle, fast updating speed, novel content and in-depth discussion, which can reflect the trend of scientific research activities in time.

3. Educational archives

Archives are the original documents and materials with preservation value directly formed by human beings in various social practice activities. Educational archives include educational yearbooks, educational decrees, educational statistics, educational investigation reports, academic conference documents, data sets, catalogues, etc.

4. Electronic information retrieval system

Electronic information retrieval system is a software compiled by computer programmers and stored in computers, which is used to help readers consult documents. Generally, it can be divided into two types: one is the document retrieval system used in the library data center, which is connected with the database of the library data center, and readers can use it to retrieve the required information from the database. The other is the search engines of various websites on the Internet, such as "Sohu" and "Chinese Yahoo". Readers can search and read the required documents from the huge Internet. Compared with other kinds of documents, electronic information retrieval system has the characteristics of easy preservation and easy retrieval.