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HomeWhat's New2024-4-30 260,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service

2024-4-30 260,000 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 260,000 items (ZIP: 12MB, Japanese only) from the National Diet Library Digital Collections newly available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service, as detailed below.

CollectionNumber of additional itemsDescription
Books242,000Books that were published domestically in Japan and catalogued between 1969 and 1995 and digitized using the supplementary budget for FY2021.
Periodicals13,000Academic periodicals, degraded periodicals published domestically in Japan and materials on Japanese emigration.
Periodicals digitized by other institutions.
Doctoral Dissertations6,000Doctoral dissertations received by the NDL from Japanese universities in 1988 (partial).

These materials are available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries and for Individuals. There are now 2,050,000 items are available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service.

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