No. 121, September 2001

Sample version of
the Japanese National Bibliography Weekly List
on the web is now available

For a long time the National Diet Library has published the Japanese National Bibliography Weekly List (JNBWL)  in book form to supply prompt and precise information on the Japanese publications newly collected  by legal deposit and other acquisition methods.

In order to improve our services and provide current data more widely and more promptly, we have decided to distribute the JNBWL for free through the Internet on the National Diet Library website from April 2002.

We are now changing the JNBWL on the NDL web site (html format) as follows:

• The JNBWL usually contains 2500-3000 titles in a week. 
• Each title remains for four weeks in the JNBWL, after which it moves onto the OPAC of our website. Further details of the bibliographic data are available on the OPAC. We plan to cumulate and provide back issues in the Electronic Library. 
• Although it naturally covers books, serials, and digital publications, we will extend the scope of the records to include maps, musical scores, images, sound recordings, and so on. 

We have just put the JNBWL sample version (Japanese only) onto our website <http://www.ndl.go.jp/news/zenkoku.html>, so please check the website or attached sample list. This sample version is open to the public until March 2002.