purpose: as scientific resources are widely distributed, researchers often have difficulties in acquiring information from different individual sources. this paper intends to present a new approach to construct a subject-knowledge-based integration platform which was carried out by the institute of software, chinese academy of sciences (iscas). our aim is to use technique tools to strengthen the library service by combining a variety of information service resources with knowledge tools.

design/methodology/approach: based on the analysis of users' needs, we established a collaborative team across iscas library, national science library of cas (nsl cas), and iscas' research groups or research labs. with the service tools developed by iscas library, we embedded other multipurpose utility tools of knowledge integration into the platform as to make full use of software tools in knowledge integration, knowledge fusion, and intelligent push of library services to end users.

findings: with a hard effort of the construction team, the iscas subject group platform (hereinafter as iscas platform) has integrated such information resources as institutional repository (ir) of iscas, open resources from websites and subject resources of computer sciences. up to date, iscas platform can provide integrated information services including data collection for computer science and intelligent generation of citation reports, by means of embedding self-developed discovering tools for domain experts and subject content, and generation tools for scientific citation reports.

research limitations: knowledge organization need be further improved in the iscas subject group platform. in addition, functions for academic exchanges need be maximized as to meet the individual demands of researchers for library services at the platform. practical implications: since the platform has been put into use through the library website of the iscas in june 2012, many academic libraries from both domestic universities and cas institutes have showed their strong interest for our self-developed tools, among which more than 10 cooperation partnerships have been formed.

originality/value: through self-developed service tools and the integration of multiple-type resources, our platform has solved such key problems as timely access and update of the trusted resources from a third party, and the rapid fusion and extension of library resources while establishing subject knowledge environment. so the iscas library can provide a flexible customization of library services according to the need of different users.

purpose: as scientific resources are widely distributed, researchers often have difficulties in acquiring information from different individual sources. this paper intends to present a new approach to construct a subject-knowledge-based integration platform which was carried out by the institute of software, chinese academy of sciences (iscas). our aim is to use technique tools to strengthen the library service by combining a variety of information service resources with knowledge tools.

design/methodology/approach: based on the analysis of users' needs, we established a collaborative team across iscas library, national science library of cas (nsl cas), and iscas' research groups or research labs. with the service tools developed by iscas library, we embedded other multipurpose utility tools of knowledge integration into the platform as to make full use of software tools in knowledge integration, knowledge fusion, and intelligent push of library services to end users.

findings: with a hard effort of the construction team, the iscas subject group platform (hereinafter as iscas platform) has integrated such information resources as institutional repository (ir) of iscas, open resources from websites and subject resources of computer sciences. up to date, iscas platform can provide integrated information services including data collection for computer science and intelligent generation of citation reports, by means of embedding self-developed discovering tools for domain experts and subject content, and generation tools for scientific citation reports.

research limitations: knowledge organization need be further improved in the iscas subject group platform. in addition, functions for academic exchanges need be maximized as to meet the individual demands of researchers for library services at the platform. practical implications: since the platform has been put into use through the library website of the iscas in june 2012, many academic libraries from both domestic universities and cas institutes have showed their strong interest for our self-developed tools, among which more than 10 cooperation partnerships have been formed.

originality/value: through self-developed service tools and the integration of multiple-type resources, our platform has solved such key problems as timely access and update of the trusted resources from a third party, and the rapid fusion and extension of library resources while establishing subject knowledge environment. so the iscas library can provide a flexible customization of library services according to the need of different users.