2025-6-4 280,000 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 280,000 items (ZIP: 14MB, Japanese only) 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 | 267,000 | Books that were published domestically in Japan and cataloged between 1988 and 1995. |
| Periodicals | 9,000 | Academic periodicals, degraded periodicals published domestically in Japan and materials on Japanese emigration. Periodicals digitized by other institutions. |
| Rare Books and Old Materials | 500 | Modern Japanese Books |
| Doctoral Dissertations | 8,000 | Doctoral dissertations received by the NDL from Japanese universities in 1987 (partial). |
These materials are available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries and for Individuals. There are now 2,320,000 items 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.