History of Roads in Japan database
The Toshokan Ryutsu Center is offering access to the History of Roads in Japan (日本の道の歴史) database free of charge here: http://jroad.majestic.jp/nmr-120725-http/index.html
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HKBU Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database
The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) recently launched the Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database (CMMID), the first of its kind in Hong Kong. The CMMID documents photographs of and detailed information about over 420 crude drugs commonly used in Chinese medicine and is linked to the Medicinal Plant Images…
JSTOR Global Plants launches
The largest of its kind, Global Plants (plants.jstor.org) is a community-contributed database that features more than two million high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of hundreds of herbaria around the world. It is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies. Through…
WTO launches new trade monitoring database
(3 May 2013) The WTO has a new trade monitoring database which provides detailed information on trade measures implemented by WTO members and observers since October 2008. The database can be accessed through the WTO website. The trade policy data is taken from the regular trade monitoring reports prepared by the WTO Secretariat. All information…
Theses on the go in Taiwan
發布日期：2013-4-25 發布單位：國際合作組 On the 15th of April 2013, the National Central Library of Taiwan launched the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Mobile Service. It can be accessed by mobile phone or tablet computer browser. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw takes you to the Chinese and English NDLTD websites. For the PC version, click “PC version” on…
A new version of Japanese Buddhist Art in Europe Database
Announced by Prof. Dr. Raji. C. Steineck, University of Zurich, this is a database of Japanese Buddhist art objects/ethnological material in European public collections. It was jointly built by a team put together by the Research Center of International Japanese Studies of the Hosei University Tokyo and the University of Zurich’s Institute of Asian and…
Elsevier has a Japanese user interface for Scopus
(Amsterdam, 17 April 2013) Elsevier has launched a Japanese user interface to Scopus.The interface provides Japanese users with the ability to find their way through the product in their language. Japanese users are now able to find the research information they are looking for more efficiently – expanding beyond Scopus’ basic search functionalities to utilizing…
Take the database licensing survey
Primary Research Group, publisher of research reports and surveys about libraries, is surveying public, academic and special libraries worldwide for a report on their database licensing practices. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report generated from the survey data. Participants are listed in the report but answers are confidential. To take the survey…
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations which are free to access and read online. More here: http://oatd.org/
WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE tops 28 million searchable patent documents
(Geneva, 12 April 2013) The addition, this month, of over ten million documents from the national patent collection of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dating from 1790 to the present day, has expanded WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE to over 28 million searchable patent documents. The PATENTSCOPE search service is a valuable technical resource that…