UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

Please check out the Image Use Protocol website from the National Coordinating Council on Japanese Language Resources (NCC) :
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/imageuse/index.html

The site is specifically designed to help Japanese Studies scholars outside of Japan attain the proper rights to use images in their scholarly publications. This guide provides an overview of Japanese copyright law, as well as templates that can be used to request copyright permission.

The NCC is looking for feedback on the site, and requests that comments be sent to vbestor@fas.harvard.edu by Friday, April 17. The site will go down after this date, but will come back “fully live” by the end of the month.

Starting this month, we will have access to a new version of JapanKnowledge called JapanKnowledge Plus. In addition to having Jitsu 字通 kanji dictionary and all the resources previously accessible through JapanKnowledge, this new version includes the online version of the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten 日本国語大辞典　(or Nikkoku Online). The search interface has also been updated.

If you have JapanKnowledge bookmarked, please note that we now have a new URL for the site:
http://www.jkn21.com/

Alternatively, you can access the database via the information page. Remember that you must be logged onto your VPN in order to use the database.

Finally, separate access to Jitsu has been discontinued. You must therefore log onto JapanKnowledge in order to access this resource.

CiNii has a new search interface. If you have the site bookmarked, ensure that you are using the following url:
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/