By June 30th, 20 13, the total library literature resources reached 748 13000 volumes, including 23 15 1000 volumes of paper literature and 5 166200 volumes of electronic literature. Literature resources cover agriculture, engineering, literature, science, law, economics, management, health, art and other disciplines, and initially formed a multi-disciplinary and multi-carrier literature guarantee system featuring tropical and subtropical agricultural sciences and biological sciences.

Journal of South China Agricultural University (Social Science Edition) was awarded as "China Core Academic Journal of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences (A)". The magazine was also selected by the National People's Congress as an important source periodical for copying newspaper materials. Selected in China Social Science Citation Index CSSCI.

Journal of South China Agricultural University (Natural Science Edition) included by Agris; China Journal Full-text Database (CJFD); China Science Citation Database (CSCD); Wanfang Database: China Core Journals (Selected) Database; China Science and Technology Papers Statistical Source Journal (China Science and Technology Core Journal); China Academic Journals Comprehensive Evaluation Database (CAJCED), etc.