The National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, has released an SRU API for Bibdata-EBook, a database of Japanese e-books:
https://ebooks.erds.nii.ac.jp/primo-explore/search?vid=NII_EBOOKS
Please note that authentication is required to access metadata for domestic e-books.
If you are interested in using the SRU API from institutions in Europe, please contact Mr Koji Sakaguchi at sakaguti@nii.ac.jp
NII has developed a new automatic translation feature (自動翻訳機能) for CiNii Research.
This feature is now in the test version. Nii would like as many people as possible to use this test version to improve the feature.
The Nii people would be very pleased, if you give them your feedbacks
Why is this feature so interesting?
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you of the service that will begin in April 2024.
In the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries (hereafter referred to as "the Service"), Patrons at partner libraries subscribing to the Service can browse provide nearly 1.8 million digitized contents including books, periodicals, rare books and old materials.
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
The NDL has integrated two of its web services—the National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) and the NDL Search—and launched them as the new NDL Search web service on January 5, 2024.
The URL for the top page is "https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/"
The National Institute of Japanese Literature plans to integrate the "Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books" and the "Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works" to provide the new "Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts”.
Release date: March 1, 2023 (planned)
Name: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts
URL: https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp
NDL is looking to improve its websites(NDL Search, NDL Online, and Research NAVI). They have asked me to comment and have an online meeting about international Japanese studies, so I would be very happy if you could participate in the survey below (by 31th Jan.).
Questionnaire about NDL Websites: NDL Search, NDL Online, and Research NAVI - Google フォーム
https://forms.gle/fb489WsCZ9TNDaM19