The invention provides a method and a system for automatically acquiring digital resources of publications. The method comprises the steps: obtaining resource files in the digital resources of the publications; identifying the resource files according to a preset identification rule to obtain an identification result, wherein the identification result comprises a file type, a file relation and a sequence; uploading the resource files to a server; generating attribute information of the resource files according to the identification result; storing the attribute information into a database. According to the method and the system, the efficiency of collecting the digital resources of the publications can be improved, and the workload can be greatly reduced.