“National Diet Library Digital Collections” service

National Diet Library (NDL) provides digital collections for the GRIPS Library and individuals.

  • Services at the GRIPS Library
  • GRIPS faculty and students can browse and obtain prints of parts of digitized materials.
        

  • Services for individuals
  • These services only allow browsing. It is possible to apply for printing via MyLibrary.

 

Eligibility for Access

GRIPS faculty and students

 

Available Materials

    Among the NDL Digital Collections, digitized materials marked with “Available only at the NDL and its partner libraries or to official registered users in Japan” are available at the GRIPS Library. The materials consist of more than 3.5 million out-of-print items such as books, rare books and old materials, journals, doctoral dissertations, and scripts.

 

Service Hours at the GRIPS Library (Browsing and Printing)

    Monday to Friday, 10:00 – 17:00

 

Browsing at the GRIPS Library

You can browse digitized materials on the dedicated library PC after you have been logged in by the staff. If you want to obtain prints of any of the materials, please apply at the library service counter.

How to apply

Please apply at the library service counter. You must present your ID card at that time.

Time limit

Maximum 60 minutes at one time (This can be extended if there is no one on the waiting list.)

Restrictions

It is forbidden to:

  • take the dedicated PC out of the library;
  • connect external storage devices such as USB flash memory to the PC;
  • take photographs of the material, using devices such as cameras and smart phones; or
  • take screenshots or try to download electronic files of the materials.

 

Printing of materials

  • You may print parts of these materials, within the limit of Copyright Law.
  • The materials can only be printed by the library staff. Please come to the library service counter and fill out a printing request form. It is also possible to apply via MyLibrary.
  • If you have the specific information required for a printing request, you can apply for printing without browsing the system.

Printing fees

GRIPS Library pays the fees for the printing of materials requested for research purposes.

Information required for printing requests

  • Article data, including such information as title, author, volume number, frame number
  • NDL call number
  • NDL bibliographic ID