Uddate – Open Access to Japanese dissertations
Japan’s Ministry of Education and Science released English translation of official gazette on open access of Dissertations at http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=ETD2013&openfile=notice_en.pdf
Koji Ruien in JapanKnowledge (JK)
I am sending many reference books to storage now in order to make more space for students to study. However, please do not worry. I am selecting only reference books that are available to access online.
For instance, Koji ruien 古事類苑, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Shōwa 51-53 [1976-1978] 51 v., the Encyclopedia for pre-modern history, will be sent to storage soon. http://pittcat.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1594806 ,
However, it is available via JapanKnowledge (JK). http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/japanknowledge.html
After you login to JK, You can find a link to Koji ruien on the middle of page “Closeup JK”
And at bottom of the page “Library”
In addition, the index, Koji ruien shinkana sakuin, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2010 will be remained in the reference section of EAL.
http://pittcat.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6224529
Open Access to Japanese Dissertation become Official
Japanese government officially published revisions of university degree regulations on March 11. In accordance with the revisions, doctoral dissertations will be published in electronic format via institutional repositories. The revisions are available at
http://kanpou.npb.go.jp/20130311/20130311h06002/20130311h060020002f.html (official gazette in Japanese)
Japanese working group DRF (Digital Repository federation) has created a Wiki to follow the revision.
http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?ETD2013 (in Japanese)
Pitt Starts Offer 25 GB Could Box for Students, Faculty and Staff
University of Pittsburgh starts to offer 25 GB of free cloud storage with Box this month. Access files anywhere. Invite others to collaborate online. It is like Google Document and Drop Box, but storage size is huge.
You may store all files of your computer and home computer on this cloud box and work on them from anywhere. installation of software is very easy. Just couple clicks from following link and you will get connect to your box. Enjoy world of cloud computing.
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情報を発信し続けるということ
随分前の話だが、ジュンク堂池袋本店で2012年7月14日に行われた、『本棚の中のニッポン 海外の日本図書館と日本研究』（笠間書院）の著者、江上敏哲さんと、早稲田大学の和田先生とのトークセッションを、min2flyさんのブログで読ませてもらった。その場にいたらもっと面白かったのでしょうが、ブログ上でも充分勉強になりました。そのとき感じたのは、ぼくもソーシャルネットワークで細かい情報を発信しているだけでなく、まとまったものを書かねばならないなということ。
今年こそは、最近のアメリカ大学図書館再編成のことを書きたい。
Open Access to Japanese dissertations
Effective on April 2013, all doctoral dissertations approved by Japanese universities are to be publicly available via Internet.
I will share with you more detailed information after AAS conference in March.Please see below for an announcement from Kuniko Yamada McVey, new NCC Chair.
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From: McVey, Kuniko [mailto:kmcvey@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:21 PM
To: The eastlib mailing list
Subject: [eastlib] Open Access to Japanese dissertations
Dear colleagues dealing with Japanese resources,
Japan’s Ministry of Education and Science has just announced a modified policy on the doctoral dissertation. Effective on April 2013, all doctoral dissertations approved by Japanese universities are to be publicly available via Internet. NCC will follow this development and provide details and updates on this exciting news at the March 21 meeting in San Diego. FYI, the Ministry issued documents are attached below.
Kuniko Yamada McVey
NCC chair
Librarian for the Japanese Collection
Harvard-Yenching Library
Summary of modification （Japanese）
http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=references&openfile=02-1.pdf
Flowchart of process for making dissertations available (Japanese)
http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=references&openfile=02-4.pdf
Japan’s Ministry of Education will start digitizing 300,000 Japanese early prints
Japan’s Ministry of Education released the new plan, which will start digitizing 300,000 Japanese early prints listed in the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL)’s Union Catalog of Early Japanese Books Database. The project will start from 2013 for the following 10 years. It is a collaboration among the NIJL and 20 other universities.
For the announcement (in Japanese)
http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu4/toushin/1327235.htm
