Jan 11 2008
Japanese Newspaper Database Trials
Update – The trial period has been extended to February 29 2008
We will be having trials of Yomiuri and Asahi Shinbun databases from January 14 to February 13 2008. You must be on a campus computer or be using your VPN from home in order to access the databases. I would very much appreciate your feedback on both databases to see whether or not it is worthwhile to subscribe to one or both of them.
See below for information on both trials (click on titles to link to databases):
Yomiuri Shibun’s Yomidasu Bunshokan (ヨミダス文書館)
Contains Yomiuri Shinbun articles since 1986 and a biographical database. Click here and go to 収録記事について for the full description (in Japanese).
Asahi Shinbun’s Kikuzo (聞蔵) II Visual for Libraries
Contains over 5 million Asahi Shinbun articles since 1984, plus an image library and articles from Asahi publications such as Aera. Check out the full description of the database here (in Japanese).
