The Academia Sinica is quite confident in stating that researchers of early and medieval imperial Chinese history, for instance, can regard the on-line Twenty-Five Books of History as primary sources. For researchers of late imperial China from the Song dynasty on, because there are abundant historical materials, the materials of this archive are not the only ones available, but they certainly should not be overlooked.
中研院十分有信心的表示，以二十五史為例，對中國上古史的研究者來說，這套資料庫應當夠格成為一手資料；對中古史和宋以後的近古史，由於史籍豐富，這套資料庫雖非唯一的史料，但仍不可或缺。