National Institute of Polar Research

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Our Polar Collection is one of the best collections in the world

Library Director  Sakae Kudo

NIPR Library has one of the best Polar Collections in the world. Our polar collection includes expedition records, essays, and research reports that do not exist in any other library in Japan. The Library also contains many scholarly books and journals written in several languages (Japanese, English, Russian, to name a few). These collections included in the Polar Collection can be searched via the NIPR Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC).

Facilities

The Library is located on the ground floor (first floor) of a six-story building. The floor is composed of four areas and one room: the reading area, book area, bound journal area, current journal area, and rare book room. There are reading tables in each area. Each table is equipped with outlets to power and recharge your digital devices. You can use our networked PCs (for study and research purposes) and our copy machine. For more information, please visit our website: https://www.nipr.ac.jp/library/en/index.html

Collections (as of April 1, 2018)
Books Japanese 10,429 28,198
Other languages 17,769
Booklet Japanese 1,947 3,560
Other languages 1,613
Bound Journals Japanese 3,562 27,905
Other languages 24,343
Digital Data   13,904 13,904
Total 73,567
Publications

The Library publishes two scholarly journals, “Antarctic Record” and “Polar Science”. Articles to be accepted cover all fields of polar science. These journals have a strong reputation internationally.
The Library also publishes "Polar Data Journal" and “JARE Data Reports”, which are obtained from Arctic and Antarctic observation. Our journals are available for download from the following website:

"Antarctic Record" and "JARE Data Reports" :
https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/
"Polar Science" "
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/polar-science/
"Polar Data Journal" :
https://pdr.repo.nii.ac.jp/

- Antarctic Record (Japanese and English)
- Polar Science (English) (Distributed for a charge)
- Polar Data Journal (English)
- Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research
- JARE Data Reports
- Antarctic Geological Map Series
- Special Map Series

Academic Publications

A variety of publications, including but not limited to academic articles, are issued and edited by NIPR on a wide range of research topics are available.

KYOKUCHIKEN Library' series (Only in Japanese)
https://www.nipr.ac.jp/library/NIPR-library/

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