AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:3 (October 1998)

JDC on the Web

JDC98 UPDATE.2 (Aug. 10, 1998)

The Japan Documentation Center invites you to visit its home page (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/jdc) and look through the latest additions to the document database. We add approximately 100-150 items each month to this fully searchable web-file, with the last update having been done at the end of July.

Examples:

A poll on diplomacy [Gaiko ni kansuru chosa] / Prime Minister's Office. J1997-30750
A proposal for an electronic information disclosure act [Denshi joho kokaiho no teigen] / Japan Civil Liberties Union. J1997-30739
Materials regarding social security [Shakai hosho kankei shiryo] / Ministry of Finance. J1997-30735

For those who are less familiar with the project at the Library of Congress, we collect current public policy materials from Japan and create records for the searchable database. Most of the collection is in Japanese. We create a detailed English abstract for each item to help you identify those materials that are useful for your research. By scanning the original texts and storing the image files, we can provide print-outs to you, the researcher, quickly and efficiently upon request. Areas covered include economics, trade, politics and foreign relations, industry, the environment, and social conditions.

The JDC also subscribes to a wide range of journals and newspapers. The list of journals can be seen on our home page. Particularly useful for government reports are:

Keizai Seisaku Joho
Seifu Kankobutsu Geppo
Seifu Shiryo Abusutorakuto (Monthly Government Abstracts)
Gekkan Seifu Shiryo (Monthly Government Data)
Gekkan Nyu Porishi

We also subscribe to the newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Business and Technology). We can provide information to you if you have specific citations of the issues and dates or of the articles.

The JDC staff provide assistance to researchers throughout the world. Due to copyright restrictions, you are not able to view the full texts on the web. Nevertheless, we can provide you hard copies of the texts and other requested information (at no charge) usually within a week after we receive your request.

The Japan Documentation Center staff look forward to hearing from you.

Ichiko T. Morita, Director
Japan Documentation Center
The Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540-4815

Voice: 202-707-5581
Fax: 202-707-9114
Email: jdc@loc.gov

Editor's note: Taken from a posting to H-ASIA on August 11, 1998 with permission -- M. Donovan

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