Dear all, The number of the contents in JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repository Online) has reached to 1 million which include approximately 0.7 million fultexts. JAIRO is a national potal which harvest metadata from 158 Institutional Repositories in Japan. English pages on JAIRO has also been updated. They include statics, various documents and reports on IRs. JAIRO http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/en/ English Documents and IR Statistics in English http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/en/archive/ http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/en/archive/statistic/ On behalf of NII Institutional Repositories Team and Japanese IR communities * NII is an acronym for National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo and is carrying out Institute Repositories Program during 2010-2013. Hideki UCHIJIMA Kanazawa University Library Kakuma Kanazawa City Ishikawa Prefecture JAPAN Telephone : +81-76-264-5203 Fax : +81-76-234-4050 Mail:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] http://www.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/index.html http://dspace.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/dspace