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[1]The Nippon Foundation Library Goes Online (30/6/2003)　（1/4）

The Nippon Foundation has been in existence for more than 40 years. During that time, we have supported thousands of projects, ranging from a complete nautical survey of the Malacca Straits to the provision of free treatment for all leprosy patients in the world to the support of local volunteer groups around Japan. Many of these projects have produced publications of one sort or another, including books, videos and serialized newsletters.

To ensure that the projects we have supported have the greatest effect possible, we have undertaken a truly massive effort--the digitization of all of this data, and creation of an internet library to house it in.

While we have yet to upload many of these works, to date we have already posted more than 400,000 A4-size pages of text.

Since we are a Japan-based organization, a majority of the publications are in Japanese. However, since our efforts reach around the world, there are a large number of works that have been produced in English or other languages.

For this reason, we have also created an English search engine, to facilitate easy access of the material for those whose browsers or linguistic capabilities do not include Japanese characters.

This article stands as a short course in how to access our library through the English search engine.

[2]The Nippon Foundation Library Goes Online (30/6/2003)　（2/4）

For using the library effectively, you will be able to type your search string into the space provided　beside the "search" button. However, many users will want to click the English Search link provided above that entry field.

The page that opens has three interactive items.

1.	A list of category types, to enable you to narrow your search and thus reduce the time required to find what you are looking for.
2.	A search-string entry field. Hints on how to use this field are provided below the interactive section.
3.	A link entitled "Expert Search," which will take you to a page from which you can further refine your search by year, category or a number of other factors.

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The Expert Search page is the most complex partof the library, and so we'll get it out of the way right away.

Any number of parameters can be input on this page, as outlined below:

1.	Document Language: Check or uncheck the boxes to select your language.
2.	Fiscal Year: The year the work was produced. Our fiscal year starts April 1st. Please input the year in four digits: e.g. 1962, 2002.
3.	Document Title: If you know the name of the thing you are looking for, please input it here.
4.	Document Type: This is the form of media that the material was published in, for example, leaflet, TV script or textbook.
5.	Category: This is the field, such as history or linguistics, that the material specializes in. The listing generally follows the Japanese National Diet Library Classification system.
6.	Organization Name: The group that produced the material with The Nippon Foundation's support.
7.	Project Name: The name of the project that the group conducted. Please include the fiscal year (2) if you use this heading.
8.	Project type: Sometimes, The Nippon Foundation runs its own projects. Use this section to select these types of projects.
9.	Project location: The place that the project took place. If the Organization is based in London, but their work is in sub-Saharan Africa, the the Project Location is sub-Saharan Africa. Please note that we are working to put the country listing in alphabetical order. Currently, it is tied directly to our Japanese system and is in the order of the Japanese syllabary.
10.	Organization Location: The opposite of (9), above. In the above example, the location would be London. The order of the Japanese prefectures runs in the traditional Japanese order--from North to South.
11.	Sort by: Here, you can decide how to order your results. Options are: by document title, by organization or by fiscal year.

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After entering a search string and clicking on the "search" button, a page like this one should come up. Clicking on the title or the URL will take you to the document. Both links lead to the same page. Please note that there are two types of contentin this library: items with the word dantaiin the URL are pages outlining organizationsthat we work with. Those with the word"seikabutsu" are the actual works producedby those oranizations. (Click on the picture to get a better idea ofwhat this means.)
This is a sample group outline page. Most people will not be able to read the outlines of organizations due to language issues. For those that can, please note that the underlined sections at the bottom of thesepages are the various works produced by thegroup in question. These underlined words areclickable links.
Clicking on one of the "seikabutsu" links will bring you to a page like this one. From here, all you have to do is to click on the variousunderlined sections to read the content thatit represents.
Finally, some of the documents have been reproduced in PDF form for those with fasterinternet connections who want to download the material in a format close to what it originallylooked like.

We hope that you find our library useful. Its contents representmillions of hours of labor, both in the field and in the offices of organizations around the world.

We are steadily working to improve the library, and if you have anyquestions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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