ABSTRACT
Ten foreign medical subject knowledge repository unions were analyzed The characteristics of their establishment were described in terms of their operating model and fund sources, storage and sharing policies, tech-nical support and resources development, scientific data management, subject service, and scientific research im-pact power. The following enlightenments were gained on the establishment of medical subject knowledge repository unions in our country, namely selecting an appropriate development way according to their development strategy, working out the storage and sharing policies according to the international standards, selecting the software and de-veloping the resources according to their appropriate development strategies, strengthening the data management and innovative the subject service, increasing the impact power of scientific research by making full use of network resources. Establishment of medical subject knowledge repository unions helps not only to solve the problems of fund shortage, insufficient resources and professional staff in developing knowledge repository, but also to solve the problems of the integration and use of medical characteristic resources, and the storage and sharing of domestic medical resources.