中央研究院近代史研究所自1997年開始投入典籍、史料、檔案的數位化工作，期望藉由數位化及網路的結合，推廣近代歷史之研究資源與教育。

　　本所檔案館多年來持續進行外交及經濟部門檔案之數位化工作，建置《檔案館藏檢索系統》，2023年新館藏系統重置後，現分為外交、經濟、個人資料、機關團體及地圖五大類，逾50萬筆後設資料提供目錄及影像瀏覽檢索。

　　胡適紀念館則推動《胡適檔案資料庫》的建置，將不同媒材載體的檔案，轉製為數位檔，以利於典藏，並建立資料庫管理系統，便於學者查考與使用。

　　郭廷以圖書館自2005年起推動館藏數位化，並於2021年規畫建置新版數位典藏系統，內容為圖書館歷年數位化之後設資料與全文影像檔，包含報紙、剪報、公報、期刊、圖書、檔案文獻等。

　　另外，本所資料庫小組則陸續建置各類主題資料庫，如《英華字典》、《近代春秋TIS系統》、《近現代人物資訊整合系統》、《近代歷史地理資訊平台》等，各資料庫間有相互關聯的查詢功能，期望以人、事、時、地、物各要項為主題，建構整體性的歷史資料庫群組。

　　2014年，我們集合本所的數位學術資源—圖書館、檔案館、胡適紀念館、資料庫小組所建立的資料庫以及館際合作計畫，組成近代史數位資料庫(MHDB, Modern History Databases )，提供使用者明確的個別資料庫登入方式及使用說明，並強化跨資料庫查詢功能，成為近代史數位研究資源整合平台。

　　Since 1997, the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica has been engaged in the digitization of canonical texts, historical materials, and archives, hoping to promote research resources and education on modern history through the combination of digitization and the Internet.

　　The Archives has been digitizing the records of the Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs departments for many years, and has established the Archives Collection Search System. In 2023, the Archives rebuilt the new collection system. It is now divided into five categories: Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs, Personal Information, Organizations, and Maps, with more than 500,000 metadata records available for cataloging and image reviewing.

　　The Hu Shih Memorial Hall has promoted to establish the database of Hu Shih Archives Search System , converting archives in different media into digital files for easier researchers to access the collection and establishing the database management system to facilitate scholarly research and use.

　　Since 2005, Kuo Ting-yee Library has promoted the digitization of its collections, and in 2021, the library established a new version of the digital collection system, which will include newspapers, bulletin, periodicals, books, and archival documents.

　　In addition, the MHDB team of the institute are gradually building various topics databases, such as English-Chinese Dictionary database, the Modern Annals TIS system, the Integrated Information System on Modern and Contemporary Characters database, and Modern History Geographical Information Services. There are interrelated query functions between these databases, the institute hopes to construct an overall historical database group with the themes of people, events, time, places, and things.

　　In 2014, we combined the digital scholarly resources of the Institute—the Library, the Archives, the Hu Shih Memorial Hall, the MHDB team established various Databases, and have interlibrary cooperation projects with different libraries to form the Modern History Databases (MHDB), which provides users with clear access to individual databases and instructions on how to use them, and strength the cross-database searching function to become a platform for integrating digital research resources in modern history.