Welcome to Current Awareness Portal
Current Awareness Portal is a website which announces information on library and library and information science created by the National Diet Library of Japan (NDL). Most of contents are originally written in Japanese, and some of them are translated and available in English here.
When you click [日本語] or the menu tab (CA-R, CA-E, CA, 調査研究) at the header, you can read Japanese contents.
カレントアウェアネス・ポータルでは、一部の日本関係の記事を英語に翻訳し配信しています。（⇒日本語コンテンツのトップページに戻る）
Current Awareness English New Article
- 2025-03-24E2744e – Release of Full Text Data for All Time Periods in the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet
- 2025-03-24E2736e – “The World Through Picture Books”: Introducing the IFLA Exhibition Set
- 2025-03-24CA2074e – The Transition from “The Japanese National Bibliography” to “The Japanese National Bibliographic Data”: The Past and the Present of The Japanese National Bibliography Service
- 2024-09-30CA2064e – Trends in the Transformative Agreements of E-Journals in Japanese Universities
- 2024-09-30E2670e – Establishment of “I-Room”: Space for Learning Together about Disasters and Disaster Prevention
- 2024-03-26CA2051e – The Past 10 Years of E-legal Deposit of Online Publications and Its Future
- 2023-09-27E2609e – Responses to COVID-19 by Public Libraries in Japan (2): Research by the National Diet Library
- 2023-09-27E2606e – Establishment of the National Center for Art Research and the Initiatives of its Research Resources Group
- 2023-06-20CA2042e – The State of Digital Humanities and Japanese Studies in North America: Developments, Collaborations, and Challenges / Paula R. Curtis
- 2023-03-29E2563e – “Anime TAIZEN”: A Comprehensive Japanese Animation Database
- 2023-03-29E2548e – Expansion of the Scope of Online Publications Collecting by the National Diet Library
- 2023-03-29E2533e – Release of the NDL Ngram Viewer: A Service to Visualize Full-Text Data
- 2023-03-29E2529e – Launch of Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals
- 2023-03-29E2498e – Towards “Library Newsletters that Students Want to Read”
- 2022-12-23CA2031e – The Data Visualization Roadshow: A data visualization session provided by an academic library / Devin R. Bayly, Jeffrey C. Oliver
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What’s New
- 2025-03-24Three English articles newly available on the Current Awareness Portal from March 24, 2025.
- 2024-09-30Two English articles newly available on the Current Awareness Portal from September 30, 2024.
- 2024-03-26One English article newly available on the Current Awareness Portal from 26 March, 2024.
- 2023-09-27Two English articles newly available on the Current Awareness Portal from 27 September, 2023.
- 2023-03-29Five English articles newly available on the Current Awareness Portal from 29 March, 2023.
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