This paper explores the problems confronted by the cultural and historical researchers in the use of electronic full-text database system when being engaged in academic research: First of all, the selections between different editions that related to the problems of Philology. Secondly, problems about whether users are good at using and retrieving database. In the third place, format problems about using database to write essays. This essay takes Electronic Version of Text Retrieving of Collection of the Four Traditional Divisions of Texts as an illustrative example and provides solutions to these problems: Firstly, users must have enough and professional knowledge of Philosophy in order to tell whether the texts in the Electronic Version of Text Retrieving of Collection is appropriate or not and they can use the best version to build their own digital text-based data resources. Second, users not only have to be familiarized with the contents and index of the data resources but also have the ability to deal with the computers and the programs of Microsoft. These skills help uses to find their needed works and materials. Third, using the "electronic medium" is the trend in nowadays academic research. The regulations of the essay formats like APA and MLA in the academic cultural and historical research fields can be the base for making the standard essay formats.