1. Register of Private Grants-in-Aid

   (1)Sources

   The database covers those research projects which received grants for promoting academic research, according to the projects listed in the Summary of Current Grant-Award issued by the Foundation Library Center of Japan.

   (2)Coverage and Number of Records

   Data after fiscal 1994 are registered. The number of data items was about 3,900 at the start of service.
   It is anticipated that about 4,000 data will be added annually.

   (3)Main Items

   The data includes the year of grant, grant foundation name, research project name, researchers name, grant amount, etc.

   (4)Use of Database

   Call command is "JOSEIK"

2. Access Method For details of the database contents and usage method, see the "NACSIS-IR database sheet (JOSEIK)".

3. Service Charges Each call to a database: 30
   Note that expenses relating to usage are issued each month as a total usage charge for all databases, with 3% consumption tax added.

4. Related information A summary of research result reports (appearing on journals and abstracts) of the research projects subsidized by aid foundations is available as a database called Private Grants-in-Aid Research (call command "JOSEI").

New Database Services in Preparation
There are 53 types of database currently available for user access offered by the Information Retrieval service of the National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS-IR). Moreover, the databases listed below will be added to the service as and when they are compiled. (Database names are tentative.)
In addition, Foreign Book Catalog held by the National Diet Library is scheduled to be added to the NACSIS-IR service in the near future.

1. Catalog of Russian Diplomatic Documents related to Japan
   This includes a catalog of Japan-related document files (delo in Russian) prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (or Soviet Russia). The original documents are owned by the Russian Empire Diplomatic Historical Material Archive (documents before 1917) and the Russian Diplomatic Policy Historical Material Archive (documents after 1917), both in Moscow. A part of the documents can be viewed at the Diplomatic Historical Material Archive, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Tokyo and the Slav Research Center of the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo. The database corresponds to the Japan-related material catalogs I and II of Russian diplomatic historical material archives prepared by the Russian Politics Encyclopedia Compilation Committee.

2. Charged Particles Nuclear Reaction
   This includes numerical data of various measurements, documents and references, and information about experimental measurement conditions related to the sectional area of a nuclear reaction that is created when charged particles are injected into a material.
   It was prepared by the Japan Charged Particles Nuclear Reaction Data Group and corresponds to the NRDF Annual Report.

3. Hokkaido University Northern Studies Collection Database
   This includes catalog information of materials related to studies of the northern territory (An Annotated catalog of Japanese Manuscript Sources on Hokkaido, Sakhalin, the Kuriles and Russia in Hokkaido University Library, A List of Historical Photographs of Hokkaido (1868-1926) in the Hokkaido University Library, The Kaitakushi (Hokkaido Colonial office) and Its Foreign Employees, Advisers, and other Foreigners.
   A List of Correspondence, 1871-1882, A List of Maps of Hokkaido and Adjoining Regions in Hokkaido University Library, A classified List of Research Resources in the Hokkaido University Library), owned by the Hokkaido University Library. The database was prepared by the same library.