Library is one of the most important channels for collecting documents and the earliest form of document collection. In ancient China, it was called the Library Pavilion or the Scripture Building, which mainly collected books. Most modern libraries are oriented to the society, mainly using and providing open services, which has developed into a trend of joint cooperation, document exchange and resource sharing among multiple libraries. Modern library has become a service and academic institution for collecting, sorting, preserving and transmitting scientific literature knowledge, and it is also the main place for educational literature exchange system and educational researchers to search for information.
Archives are specialized institutions that collect archives and related materials that need to be preserved for a long time in the country, and organize, catalog, keep, study, provide inquiries and records.
As a social and cultural undertaking, the museum is the main collection place for scientific research departments, cultural and educational institutions, material and spiritual cultural heritage or natural specimens.
All organizations or institutions that may have social science literature, such as cultural institutions, educational academic organizations, educational administrative departments, etc. No matter whether they have a library or not, they always collect or produce some documents for business use (such as regular or irregular small newspapers and periodicals such as Dynamics, Work Newsletters and Internal Manuscripts) as resources and collection channels for educational documents.
Participating in academic conferences of this major or related majors is an important channel for collecting research documents. In academic conferences, you can not only read conference papers and other materials, but also ask questions face to face, ask questions and discuss, and exchange new achievements, new progress and new topics in education and scientific research. From talking with relevant experts and peers, researchers can also get a lot of valuable dynamic information, know what others are doing, what they plan to do in the future, what they can do, and so on. This information is of special significance to researchers. Personal communication with peer experts and scholars is an important channel to obtain research materials and information.
There are countless online resources on the Internet, ranging from politics, economy, culture and commerce to education, science and technology, health, sports, astronomy, news and entertainment. Almost all human information resources can be found here.