Abstract: KU-ORCAS (the Asian Open Research Center of Kansai University), which was selected in 2017 as the brand enterprise of Japanese private research university, mainly promotes the digital humanities project based on the long-term digital preservation of East Asian cultural research materials in the library of Kansai University. In addition to the work of “opening research resources” for long-term digital preservation based on IIIF, the project also carries out “open research” for the purpose of sharing relevant research and flexible methods of digital long-term preservation and digital humanities. In addition, it will cooperate with the website “honkoku.org” to realize the “openness of research team” through crowdsourcing. The research results of KU-ORCAS will also be made public as open access data to realize the “open access of research results”. The project will promote “openness” through these four tasks. In this report, we will not only discuss the part related to university library, but also discuss the digital humanities research and the countermeasures of open data research which are difficult to achieve through sole reliance on university library. 

Key words: East Asian Studies, Brand studies, Openness, Digital humanities