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Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library 1475-1900

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This database contains page images of Arabic and Western translations of Islamic classical works on religion, law, science, history, geography, literature, languages, and other Islamic studies etc. as well as Arabic translations of Christian works in European languages. These held by the British Library.
This is a rare and important collection covering an unprecedented range of subjects and a scale in its kind.

Module 1 : Religion and Law is available.

Kusuda Collection Online

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The First Period (Sato Eisaku Papers)
Unpublished materials left by Minoru Kusuda (1924-2003), the chief secretary who supported the Eisaku Sato administration (1964-1972).
The documents are virtually the "Sato Eisaku Papers," consisting of first-class, top-secret materials on everything from diplomacy to domestic politics.
This is a large collection of over 4,000 items, and is an indispensable basic historical document for the future of postwar history.

Documents Related to Political Scientist Teiji Yabe

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The former collection of Teiji Yabe (1902-1967), a political scientist who was deeply involved in realpolitik before and after World War II. The collection contains a vast amount of original materials, amounting to approximately 6,000 items left in Yabe's possession.
The collection covers the period from the prewar period to the late 1960s, and includes Yabe's own handwritings and correspondence as well as internal documents of various organizations he was involved with from the prewar to the postwar period.

National Geographic Virtual Library

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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.

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List of Contents other than "National Geographic"

Archives of Sexuality and Gender

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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.

PSO: Prefectural Statistics Online

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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)

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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.

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