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"National Geographic" was published in 1888 by the National Geographic Society, one of the world's largest non-profit organizations.
In this database, you can browse from the first issue to the latest issue with page image and full-text search function.
※ It takes 2 months to be listed in this database after the release of the latest issue.
List of Contents other than "National Geographic"
Module 1 : LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Part I
This collection brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Rare and unique content from newsletters, papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more.
You can search statistical data on every fields by prefecture, which you have to group together from huge collection of books and microfilms without this database.
For example, you can easily get the data like following:
- Transition of rice production by prefecture in Meiji period
- Number of teachers of a certain prefecture by sex and age in prewar period
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0.9 million images, 1.5 million records of Prefectural Documents on Statistics (1873-1972)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) now contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
This incomparable collection contains more than 130,000 titles and more than 17 million scanned pages.
This is the online database of Song Collection of Seikadou-Bunko Song Yuan Print Collection.
This is the full text database of documents groups involved in the International Trade and Industry Policy History Historical Materials.
This online database is comprised of three kinds of documents group.
■Primary Historical Materials
These historical materials are document group concerned with history of policy of the Commercial and Industrial Ministry and Ministry of International Trade and Industry which were transferred in 2012 from National Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.
■Official History
KRpia is the Korean Studies Database. (Subscribed titles are only available.)
Title List: Excel PDF
From January 2024,「부인ㆍ신여성 （婦人・新女性）」 is available.
Part III: Materials related to Chambers of Commerce and Industry throughout Japan and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The essentioal tool for any study of business, economic or industrial history.
You can overlook business activities of Japanese companies from Meiji to Showa period.
【Financial Reports】
9,000 companies / 160,000 records
Financial reports covering the period from Meiji to the 1950 Commercial Code amendments
【Prospectuses】
2,000 companies / 4,700 records
Most are from the 1940s and early 1950s, but also include prewar company prospectuses.
