6-3. New user registration (Mina Search Help)

6-3-1 Who can apply for user registration via the Mina Search
6-3-2 How to apply for user registration
　(1) Enter email address
　(2) Receive email
　(3) Fill in and submit the application form
　(4) Upload Identification Documents
　(5) Password setting
　(6) Confirm your application
　(7) Confirm acceptance of registration form and display of user ID
6-3-3 If your application has any problems

6-3-1 Who can apply for user registration via the Mina Search

Patrons who meet all the conditions listed below are eligible to apply.

Patrons who apply for the Data Transmission Service for Persons with Print Disabilities.
If you would like to apply for user registration of the NDL without being registered to the Data Transmission Service for Persons with Print Disabilities, please apply via the NDL Search.
Patrons who have difficulty reading ordinary printed matter print due to a visual impairment or other form of print disability.
This service is available to anyone who is visually impaired, dyslexic, or has a physical disability that makes it difficult to use ordinary printed matter. Please understand that you will be asked to submit documentation of your print disability with your application.
Patrons must be at least eighteen years of age
Patrons who are at least eighteen years of age. Please contact us if you are under eighteen but would like to register for the Data Transmission Service for Persons with Print Disabilities. Please see the Contact regarding user registration page.
Patrons who have a personal email address

6-3-2　How to apply for user registration

(1) Enter email address

“Enter email address” window will be displayed when you click the “Become a register user” button. This button is displayed in the top page or in the login dialog that is displayed when you click the Login icon in the upper right corner of each page in the Mina Search.

Please enter your email address into the input box in the upper part of the window.
Please read the notes of new user registration. If you agree to the notes, please select “I Accept the above Terms and Conditions” check box, and click the Send email button.
If your email address has previously been used to create other account, the message "This email address is already in use." will be displayed. In this case, you don’t need to apply for registration. Please use your user ID that has been already registered.
Please contact us if you have forgotten your existing ID or you don’t remember having registered previously.

(2) Receive email

We will confirm receipt of your application by sending an email from the ndl.go.jp domain to the email address you provided.
The email includes a URL that can be accessed to complete your user registration. Please access the URL and finish the procedure within 24 hours.
※If you can’t receive an email from the NDL, please check your spam folder.

(3) Fill in and submit the application form

Please click the URL written in the email to access the user registration form, and fill in your name, address, and other user information. You cannot click the “Go to Confirm” button until you have finished filling in field with “Required” icon.

[If you reside in Japan]

Please carefully enter your date of birth. You cannot change it after registration.
Enter the postal code and click the “Address search” to fill in your address automatically. Please add any information that is not automatically included.
Enter your residential address, not place of employment or school.
Regarding telephone number
Enter your cellphone number or landline. If you have a hearing, speech, or other disability that makes it difficult to communicate by telephone, please enter an alternative number, such as a fax number, or select the check box to leave this field blank.

[If you reside outside of Japan]

Enter your name using the Latin alphabet.
Select your Country/Region of Residence from the pulldown menu.
If there is no postal code for your Country / Region of Residence, please enter a hyphen (-) instead.
Please enter your complete residential address with postal code, Country/Region of Residence, and room number. Please do not omit information.
e.g. NDLApartment#101, 1-10-1, Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 1008924, Japan.
Please do not enter a telephone or fax number if you reside outside of Japan.

(4) Upload Identification Documents

When you click “Select file”, the screen of selecting file saved to your terminal will be displayed. Please select the image file to upload.

Please be prepared to submit an image file of ① "Identification Documents "(Certification for Persons with Disabilities, Individual Number Card (My Number Card), health insurance card, etc.) and ②”Document that shows that you have a print disability “(Certification for Persons with Disabilities, Health Benefits Recordbook for the Mentally Ill, etc.). For further details, please refer to link ① or ②.
Please be sure that the image file of your Certification for Persons with Disabilities clearly shows your full name, date of birth, current residence, as well as your type and level of disabilities.
About identification document, please see “Identification document” or “Document that shows that you have a print disability” in the NDL-HP “How to apply to become a registered user of the Data Transmission Service for Persons with Print Disabilities” page.
Acceptable image file formats are jpeg or png. You may upload up to two files. To use images file in a format other than jpeg or png or to send more than three files, please contact the address listed in 6. Contact regarding user registration.

(5) Password setting

Please read following explanation and set your password, then click the “Go to Confirm” button.

Your new password must be 8 to 20 characters long.
Please enter your password using single-byte alphanumeric characters. Available symbols are !#&@?-=*+
Password must contain single-byte letters and numbers.
Uppercase and lowercase letters are distinguished.

(6) Confirm your application

Confirmation window is displayed. Please confirm your application and click the “Apply with these details” button they don’t have any problems. If you reside outside of Japan, “Terms of Use of the Data Transmission Service for Persons with Disabilities” window will be displayed after you click the “Go to Confirm” button. Please read the terms, select the “I agree to the above the terms of use” checkbox, and click the Confirm button to move to the next window.

(7) Confirm your application

“Application received” window will be displayed when your application of user registration has been finished. You will receive an email that notices your application has been accepted. Please wait until the NDL verifies your application.
Your user ID will be displayed in the “Application received” window. This ID is required to use our services and login to the Mina Search. User ID will be also written in the above notification email.
Until confirmation process is completed, this user ID will be used as a simple registration ID for requests such as Remote photoduplication, Article research service, and other services. For details, please see “Services Available for Simple Registered Users”.
Once the confirmation process has been verified, your registration type will automatically change from simple registered user to official registered user. Then, you will be able to use the Data Transmission Service for Persons with Disabilities, materials in the closed stacks, interfacility request for browsing. For details, please see “Services Available for Official Registered Users”. We will send an email to your registered email address to notify you upon completion of this process.

6-3-3 If your application has any problems

You will recieve a notification email if your application is declined because of an omission in required information or a discrepancy between your identification documents and the information you have provided.
You can also confirm notification in the Mina Search. Please click the message displayed at the top page.