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Old Map of Yoshida Village in Yamashiro Province held by the Kyoto University Museum has been newly released on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

The old map of Yoshida Village in Yamashiro Province (山城国吉田村古図) is a colored map showing the status of land ownership in Yoshida Village, Otagi-gun, Yamashiro Province, including the area that corresponds to the present-day Yoshida Campus of Kyoto University. This map measures about 176 cm x 265 cm, with annotations of the place, lot numbers, areas, owners, and tax payment recipients. Based on the content, it is estimated to have been drawn between the late 18th and mid-19th century.

Above: whole map / Below left: fields / Below right: residental land

The original of the map can be seen in the special exhibition at the Kyoto University Museum from March 19 (Wed) to May 11 (Sun), 2025 (*Only duplicate will be displayed from March 19 to April 13, 2025).
As of March 19, 2025, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 2,154,630 images of 25,595 titles.

 

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From April 2025, we will introduce EBSCO Sociology Source Ultimate as a database for sociology and related fields (trial use is available until the end of March 2025).

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The NII-REO (OJA: Online Journal Archive) now offers access to 195 titles from Cambridge University Press.

• Collection URL: https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/journal/publishers/SUP0000009000_en.html
• List of journal titles, URLs, and coverage years

In the near future, these journals will become searchable through KULINE and E-Journals & E-Books List.

[2025/03/07]
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Sorry, this entry is only available in 日本語.

12 items from Dutch trade documents held by the Kyoto University Museum have been newly released on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

▼Dutch trade document at Dejima, Nagasaki

Documents related to the arrival of the “Schip Handelmaat Schappy” at Dejima in 1827, 12 items in total. Germain Felix Meijlan, whose name appears as the author of the documents, was the head of the Dutch trading post in Nagasaki from August 1826 to October 1830.
The purchase ledger shows “purchase” of “Holländischer Händel in Japan (Dutch trade document) 1818-27, 1 copy (12 sheets)”on July 17, 1911. The content descriptions of the metadata were based on a catalog prepared by Naojiro Murakami, a pioneer in the study of the history of Japan-Europe relations, who at the time was the director of the former Tokyo School of Foreign Studies.

A roster of imports

As of March 4, 2025, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 2,154,629 images of 25,594 titles.

 

Record ID	Title	Publication year (Japan)	Collection
RB00034908	Directives to ship captains regarding Japanese sea lanes	1818(文政1)年5月7日	Museum
RB00034909	Additional directives concerning Japan	-
RB00034910	An agreement between Dutch trading houses and Dutch ship captains	1827(文政10)年
RB00034911	Orders given by Meijlan	1827(文政10)年11月9日
RB00034912	Letters from Meijlan	1827(文政10)年9月11日
RB00034913	A copy of regulations concerning the hoisting of national flags of ships entering Japanese waters	（1760(宝暦10)年6月14日）
RB00034914	Orders given by Meijlan	-
RB00034915	A notice given by Meijlan	1827(文政10)年7月26日
RB00034916	Letters from Meijlan	1827(文政10)年7月25日
RB00034917	A roster of imports	-
RB00034918	A roster of exports	-
RB00034919	A roster of imports by weight	-

 

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Posted: 2025/03/03

In February 2025, the "KURENAI Deposit System " was newly reborn

 

https://openaccess.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/researcher

 

We have significantly renewed the KURENAI Deposit System to make it easier to register and apply for the publication of articles and research data in KURENAI, the Kyoto University Research Information Repository.
The UI/UX has been completely redesigned to make the public access application process easier to understand.

When Kyoto University researchers log in to the KURENAI Deposit System with their SPS-ID, a list of their articles, automatically retrieved from Web of Science and researchmap, is displayed.
By simply attaching the article file (author's final manuscript) and supporting data to the article information, they can register and apply for publication in KURENAI in a single step.
This also enables one-stop compliance with the National OA Basic Polic, "Basic Policy on Promoting Open Access to Publicly Funded Scholarly Publications and Scientific Data."

New features have also been added, including the ability to submit research data for publication and DOI assignment from within the KURENAI Deposit System, whereas previously this could only be done by email.

Anyone with an SPS-ID can use the KURENAI Deposit System. For details on how to use it, please refer to the manual here.

• Manual of KURENAI Deposit System
  https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/content0/1370229?lang=en

 We plan to create and publish videos explaining how to use the system, so please check them out.

 

（Reference information）

• Responding to the National Government's Basic Policy on Open Access in Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), etc.
  https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/content0/1402213?lang=en
• Publish Research Data (Evidence Data for Articles) with DOIs in KURENAI
  https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/researchdata/1395273?lang=en

・Those who would like to order documents from other universities (photocopy, loan), please apply by Wednesday, 5 March.
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*This news is for users of Kyoto University Main Library.
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