The National Diet Library Digitized ContentOn May 15, the National Diet Library (NDL) started providing digitized doctoral dissertations on the Internet. About 15,000 titles of Japanese doctoral dissertations are now available at "The National Diet Library Digitized Contents" in addition to about 126,000 titles provided only inside the NDL.
Furthermore, on May 28, about 53,000 items of books, and rare books and old materials, which have been provided only inside the NDL, will become available on the Internet.
In total, digital images of more than 2,000,000 items will be available inside the NDL, and about 400,000 of them will be also provided on the Internet.