History

December 1957​

“Nankyoku Shiryo” launched by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

January 1963

Publication taken over by the National Science Museum

January 1974

Publication taken over by the newly established National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR)

March 1986

Added the English title “Antarctic Record” and changed from consecutive numbering of issues to a volume/number system

March 2003

​Started online publication (free for everyone) on the National Institute of Informatics (NII) research bulletin portal

November 2006

Started online publication in the NIPR Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

October 2014​

Started online publication in the NIPR Institutional Repository

January 2015​

Adopted Creative Commons licenses for published manuscripts

February 2015

​Discontinued publication in the NII and NIPR OPAC

January 2016​

Discontinued print production with Vol. 59, No. 3 (November 2015)

August 2016

Introduced online submission system
​Adopted Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system for published manuscripts