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2023-3-14 320,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service

The National Diet Library has made roughly 320,000 items (ZIP: 45.7MB) from the National Diet Library Digital Collections newly available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service, as detailed below.

Collection Number of additional items Description
Books 308,000 Books on the social sciences and humanities that were published domestically in Japan and catalogued between 1969 and 1987 and digitized using the supplementary budget for FY2020.
Periodicals 2,000 Academic periodicals and degraded periodicals published domestically in Japan.
Doctoral Dissertations 12,000 Doctoral dissertations received by the NDL from Japanese universities between 1988 (partial) and1989.

These materials are available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries and for Individuals. There are now 1,840,000 items are available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service.

Please note that these materials will not appear in full-text search results. We do hope to make these materials searchable by generating text data using OCR at some point in the future.

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