2021: Japan Search: A New Research Tool

Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 19 | Issue 1 | Number 2 | Article ID 5526 | Jan 01, 2021
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Japan Search:
Introducing a New Research Tool for Scholars of Japan and Its Region

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Pedro Iacobelli


The Japan Search Database
At a time when many libraries are struggling to maintain their budgets and collections and fieldwork travel is restricted, access to online research databases has become more important than ever for scholars around the world. This makes the new open access research tool  ‘Japan Search’ (https://jpsearch.go.jp/) – launched in September 2020 – particularly welcome.

‘Japan Search’ is a portal website operated by Japan’s National Diet Library, linking the databases and catalogues of many university and regional libraries, the Japanese National Archives, museums and other public institutions. This means that a single keyword search can instantly track down material on your research topic across a wide range of archives. Though more recent material is often covered by copyright, so that your search will only locate the item, but not allow you to access its content online, for older material a large and growing number of books, documents, and images are fully accessible online; and the number is growing by the day. ....

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