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The digital images newly released this time include 219 titles of "Korean Metal/Stone Rubbings Collection", 850 manuscripts from "Kawai Collection", 356 titles of "Modern Educational Wallcharts". Other than these, transcriptions and explanations are added to "Meiji Restoration Collection" and Nara Ehon Collection. As of January 29, 2018, 1,071,087 images of 12,793 titles are available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

Two hundred sixty-five titles of Tanimura Collection have been linked to NIJL's Collectors' Seal Database.

Digital images of the materials held by the libraries of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, publicized on the Internet are now freely reusable.

938 new items have been released: 477 writings by royalists from "Collage on Folding Screens, Meiji Restoration Collection", and 461 Korean rare books from "Kawai Collection" and others digitized in collaboration with Korea University.
As of December 12, 2018, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has 1,047,928 images of 11,350 titles, surpassing the one million mark.

49 books held by the Main Library and the Graduate School of Science have been newly released.
996,520 images of 10,426 titles in total are available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive as of November 13, 2018.

Kyoto University Library Network and Keio University Media Center concluded an agreement on the Joint Project on Digital Unification of Fujikawa Collection (Digital Fujikawa) and launched an integrated website that virtually brings together the holdings of both universities in one place by using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) protocol on September 28, 2018.

"The Age of Natural History", a digitized collection of rare materials on natural history held by the Graduate School of Science, Medical Library and the Main Library, has been released.
Natural History is the study of natural objects including animals, plants and minerals; collecting, recording and categorizing the information of their species and characteristics. ...

"Thai Newspaper Collection during World War II" held by CSEAS has been released.
This collection was digitized from three newspapers published in Thailand during World War II and now held by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. ...

Transcription data has been added to 244 items such as Kawai Collection, Korean classics.

”Rare Collection on Islamic Studies”, a collection of images of rare materials held by the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University has been released. Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive makes 921,230 images of 10,299 titles available to the public as of July 20, 2018.