The Exciting World of Japanese Web Resources: What Is Available and How to Obtain Them Dawn Lawson NCC Faculty Forum, Tucson 22 October 2009

Lots to Cover Types of Resources Which Are Free, Which Require a Paid Subscription and License Agreement How to Negotiate a License How the NCC Can Help

Types of Resources Newspapers Reference Works Indexes to Journal Articles Institutional Repositories Digital Libraries Library Catalogs And Much More...

Major Online Newspaper Packages (Require Paid Subscription) Kikuzo II (The Asahi shinbun Plus) Yomidas Bunshokan (The Yomiuri shinbun Plus) Nikkei Telecom 21

Kikuzo II Full-text search of articles from the Asahi shinbun (1985-today) Keyword access to earlier articles ( ) AERA (1988-) and Shūkan Asahi (2000-) Chiezō current vocabulary dictionary More content to be added in 2010

Yomidas Bunshokan Full-text search of articles from the Yomiuri shinbun (1986-today) Access to articles from the English- language Daily Yomiuri from 1989 to the present Includes biographical database and Yomidas yōgo, current vocabulary dictionary

Nikkei Telecom 21 Full-text searchable business articles from 60+ newspapers and 50+ magazines Sources include Asahi, Mainichi, Nikkei, Sankei, Yomiuri, and more Company information, who’s who directories, market data, statistics Japanese newswire headlines

Bear in Mind Some Japanese news is available on the open web Some Japanese newspapers are available in mainstream packages to which your institution may already subscribe; articles from the Japan Times, , are in ProQuest Central, and 1998-current are in Lexis-Nexis, e.g.

Subscription-Based Online Reference: Japan Knowledge Basic package: Japanese dictionaries, encyclopedias, other content plus... Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (English) Optional Add-ons: Nihon kokugo daijiten, Rekishi chimei jiten, full-text literary journals from Yagi

Subscription-Based Online Reference: Nichigai Web Services MagazinePlus Who I, II, III BookPlus Net de Hyakka Others Can mix and match databases to your needs

Journal Index: MagazinePlus (By Subscription) Includes Zasshi kiji sakuin (NDL periodical index) Also indexes scholarly journals (1945- today), popular magazines (1981- today),other academic material (festscrifts etc.) Search by keyword, author, title, journal, date No links to full text

Journal Index: CiNII Includes Zasshi kiji sakuin (NDL periodical index) Emphasizes academic information, such as papers from scholarly societies Searching is free Some results link to full text, some of which is also free Pay-per-view option available

Types of Subscriptions Single institution license with subscription agent or vendor Consortial license Individual license (some already available; NCC is advocating for more)

Our Recommendations Contact the agent or vendor to express interest and ask questions Speak to your library’s licensing librarian about requesting a free trial Contact the DRC with additional questions or concerns

PORTA: Gateway to Japanese Digital Archives National Diet Library initiative Cross-searches 47 digital archives, including two full-text sources (Kindai Digital Library and Aozora Bunko), the JAIRO institutional repository, CiNII, and bibliographic records Includes both free and for-fee content

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