National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 137, June 2004
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2.5 million data added to the NDL-OPAC
This
is a translation of the article of the same title
in
the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 518 (May 2004).
In May 2004, 2.5 million bibliographic data were added to the NDL-OPAC. Now you can search for the materials listed below that were formerly unavailable via the OPAC.
| Collections | Round number of data |
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| Reports under the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagaku-sho kagaku kenkyuhi hojokin kenkyu seika hokokusho) | 120,000 |
| Western books cataloged before 1985 including the holdings of the former Imperial Library | 390,000 |
| Publications of the United Nations and other international organizations | 23,000 |
| Microforms of documents issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office | 150,000 |
| Japanese old materials | 35,000 |
| Ashihara Collection (Materials on chanson, ballet, circus and others formerly owned by Mr. Eiryo Ashihara) | 68,000 |
| Standards and technical reports (INIS reports, NASA reports, papers of academic societies and associations, foreign doctoral dissertations published by UMI Dissertation Services, etc) | 1,720,000 |
As a result of this data addition, the number of the bibliographic data available via the NDL-OPAC reached 13 million (including 6.1 million data of the Japanese Periodicals Index), and now the major part of the bibliographic data that used to be searchable only on-site within the NDL can be searched via the Internet. We will continue this retrospective conversion. In addition, search functions of the NDL-OPAC have also been improved. Happy searching!
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