Kyoto University Library Network

The Maintenance work was completed (2021/4/12 11:30) and the service has been restored.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to the system maintenance for about 1 hour from 11:00 am, April 12, 2021.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed.
Thank you for your understanding.

A new page to navigate to open access related pages on the Library Network site,

 "Kyoto University Library Network's Open access / open science support: Open access to research results (papers and research data), bulletins, and rare materials"

 is now available.

 This website, we provides information on support for open access, such as making the papers, works, and bulletins by researchers at Kyoto University open access, and sharing the research data as evidence of such research achievements by researchers at Kyoto University, and digitizing rare materials held by Kyoto University.

Due to its system maintenance, JDream III will be out of service.

[Date]
■2021/04/03 Sat. 10:00-17:00

<Academic Support Division, Main Library>

It is one of Kyoto University Library Network's missions to securely preserve the rare book and manuscript collections Kyoto University holds and provide them for the use of researchers, in order to support academic research and contribute to society. As a means to share the information described in these rare materials more widely, Library Network has been digitizing them and making the data available on the internet.

Following are the steps of digitizing rare materials for public use on the Internet.

・Preliminary checking
・Restoration of damage
・Digital photo-taking
・Compilation of metadata
・Release on the Internet (Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive)
・Free reuse of digital images

The new website page introduces the above-mentioned steps with photographs. We hope this will attract your interest.