National Institute of Informatics (NII) launched JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online) in October 22.

JAIRO is a succeeding service of JuNii+ (test version) in which academic information (journal articles, theses or dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers, etc.) accumulated in Japanese institutional repositories can be searched for cross-sectionally.

As of October 2008, JAIRO allows about 540,000 contents in 84 institutional repositories to be searched for.

*JAIRO (test version)
http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/en/
*About JAIRO
http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/help/en/about_us.html
*NII Institutional Repositories Program
http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/en/