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Search for articles (Japan)
CiNii Articles is an information database covering Japanese articles provided by the National Institute of Informatics. You can search for articles on academic association publications, university research bulletins, etc. Information on approximately 19.7 million academic articles is recorded, and there are approximately 4 million links to text data. In addition, since references and cited references are included, it is possible to trace citation history.
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Magazineplus is a database of treatises covering publications from magazines to academic journals. From the Meiji era to the present, you can search over 45,000 magazines and 16.7 million articles at once. Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
Web OYA-bunko is a database for magazine articles dating from 1988.
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The complete database for magazines and journals from the early Meiji era to the present.
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This allows you to search for information on articles covering all science and technology fields dating from 1975. Some foreign articles are included, but if you want to search for foreign articles more widely, please use the database, “Search for articles (English etc.)”.
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
This database includes approximately 410,000 full-text PDFs of articles in the architecture field. It can be used only from Ikuta campus. Web registration (free of charge) is required to read full-text PDFs.
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Search for articles (International)
Web of Science is a collection of databases that index the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This database includes the following citation indexes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1900–present) / Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present) / Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present) / Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present) / Current Contents Connect (1998-present) / KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980-present) / MEDLINE (1950- / resent) / Russian Science Citation Index (2005-present) / SciELO Citation Index (2002-present) / Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database provided by Elsevier.
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It contains literature information in the fields of chemistry, substance information, organic chemical reaction information, reagent / chemical product catalog information, medical literature information, etc., and is an indispensable database in the fields of chemistry. Students, Academic Staff (tenured, non-tenured) can use this database.
User registration: Register from SciFinder Web User Registration Guide (accessible only on campus).
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Only one SciFinder ID can be acquired per user. If your e-mail address changes due to going on to graduate school, etc., please change your registered e-mail address instead of obtaining a new ID. If you cannot log in successfully after registering, please contact the Ikuta Library Reference Section.
MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences literature provided by the American Mathematical Society.
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MLA International bibliography is a literature database covering material since 1884. The fields include; linguistics (history and theory, comparative linguistics, semantics, translation, etc.), drama arts (movies, television, drama, etc.), language / literature education, rhetoric, history of printing / publishing, folk studies and related literature.
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BDSL is a bibliography database of German language and literary studies since 1985.
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Find and Read newspaper articles
Asahi Shinbun Cross-Search is a digital archive of the Asahi Shimbun.
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
Yomidas Rekishikan is a digital archive of the Yomiuri Shimbun.
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Maisaku is a digital archive of the Mainichi Shimbun.
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Nikkei Telecom is a full-text database of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun, and Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun. You can also search company information, personnel information, stock prices / credits, economic statistics, etc..
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This database is a digital archive of “日本運動具新報, Nippon Athletic Equipment Shinpo” (renamed “シンポウ, Shinpo” in 1972 and “スポーツ産業新報, Sports Industry Shinpo” in 1978). You can search by headline and keyword.
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ELNET
Since 1988, it has recorded about 12 million articles (updated daily). You can cross-search the articles of newspapers and magazines including national newspapers, local newspapers, and industry newspapers at the same time. Under the university contract, you can browse the search results of the article headline list. You cannot display the full text, print it, or fax or mail the article data list. Please access and use from the following LOGIN button.
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PressReader provides access to newspapers and magazines from all over the world. You can use the functions for individuals by registering as a user. Compatible with mobile apps. Please download and use the PressReader app.
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The New York Times editions since 1980 are available. The text shows textual information only.
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The New York Times from 1851 to 2014 is available as a paper image.
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To use the WSJ, you need to create a user account. Please access ACCOUNNT CREATION PAGE and register before using.
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Contains texts, illustrations, and photographs of all issues and pages of the "London Times" from the first issue of 1785 to 2011. Full text search is possible.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
Contains all pages of the “Financial Times” from the first issue of 1888 to the 2016 issue, as well as Special Supplements and the FT Magazine. Keyword search, full-text search is possible.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
All pages of the British newspaper covering politics and economics, "The Economist" from the first issue of 1843 to the 2012 issue are available in full color.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
Contains from the first issue of "The Times of India" in 1838 to the 2009 issue (as of 2018). One year has been added each year thereafter. The paper image is digitized and recorded, and you can browse photos, advertisements, guide advertisements, obituaries, caricatures, etc. in addition to news articles. Full-text search and full-page or PDF download for each article are available, and detailed search by keyword, article type, date range, specific date, author, etc. is available.
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Find books
This allows users to search the Meiji University Library collections.
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This allows users to search the materials held by university libraries in Japan in general.
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WorldCat is a global calalog of library collections.
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Economic, Business, and Corporate information
Includes corporate information on all listed and unlisted companies in Japan and all listed companies overseas, as well as information on industry, newspaper articles, economic statistics, etc.
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
This is the database of securities reports (since the 1961 settlement) of the Japanese Stock Exchanges Conference and companies listed on the JASDAQ (about 3,600).
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This includes business reports of some 9,000 companies (1877 - 1950), prospectuses of roughly 2,000 companies (1948 - 1990), securities reports of about 3,170 companies (1949 - 1985), and related materials of the centralized exclusion method of 273 companies.
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This is a database of corporate and financial information relating to about 15,000 listed companies in the United States and about 20,000 listed companies outside the United States. Listed companies in the United States include EDGAR filings from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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A database of market information around the world provided by Euromonitor International. You can utilize information on market trends, future forecasts, scale, share analysis, and lifestyles of consumers in each country. Socio-economic trends, market modeling and forecasts, and more are included.
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Laws and Precedents
Includes current regulations / history search database, case information and abstract / commentary database, and a literature information database containing articles published in legal books / magazines and national newspapers.
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
This is a full-text information database of judicial precedents that comprehensively records the judicial precedents of the Supreme Court from 1888 and the judicial precedents published to date.
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Includes literature information and case law commentary information published in "法律時報, Houritsu-Jiho" from the first issue (1929) to the latest date. It contains mainly books related to law and politics, treatises published in journals, case law commentary information, etc. The case law commentary links to the full text of the case law on the LEX/DB Internet.
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Early English Law Database
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German law database
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Dictionaries / Encyclopedias
Dictionaries / Encyclopedias database
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Information database on people that can search both Japanese and foreigners
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
Marquis Who's Who on the web
Web version of “Marquis Who's Who series”
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Online version of "Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed."
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Online version of the British Law Encyclopedia "Halsbury's laws of England"
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Online version of "Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law"
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An online version of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, which includes the 2nd and 3rd editions.
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Others
The data of the “理科年表, Chronological Science Tables” from the first issue in 1918 to the latest available year edition is provided. Gives easy access to approximately 15,000 chart data from a wide range of genres across seven sectors: calendar, astronomical, meteorological, physics / chemistry, earth sciences, biology, and the environment.
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Users can search for the latest information on the policies of the central government ministries and local governments in Japan. In addition to the profiles of executives in government offices, it also contains a wealth of administrative materials such as bills and council reports.
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A literature database of The Japan Research Institute for Local Government
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Research results on urban problems and local government
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Prefectural statistics since the Meiji era. The available range is as follows:
Hokkaido / Tohoku Meiji era (1873-1912) * Module No. 19 / Hokkaido / Tohoku Taisho era (1913-1926) * Module No. 13 Hokkaido / Tohoku before and during World War II (1927 to 1944) * Module No. 7 / Hokkaido / Tohoku after World War II (1945-1972) * Module No.1 / Kanto Meiji era (1873-1912) * Module No. 20 / Kanto Taisho era (1913-1926) * Module No. 14 / Kanto Showa before and during World War II (1927 to 1944) * Module No. 8 / Kanto Showa after World War II (1945-1972) * Module No. 2 / Chubu Meiji era (1873-1912) * Module No. 21 / Chubu Taisho era (1913-1926) * Module No. 15 / Chubu Showa before and during World War II (1927 to 1944) * Module No. 9 / Chubu Showa after World War II (1945-1972) * Module No. 3 / Kinki Meiji era (1873-1912) * Module No. 22 / Kinki Taisho era (1913-1926) * Module No. 16 / Kinki Showa before and during World War II (1927 to 1944) * Module No. 10 / Kinki Showa after World War II (1945-1972) * Module No. 4 Chugoku / Shikoku Meiji era (1873-1912) * Module No. 23 / Chugoku / Shikoku Taisho era (1913-1926) * Module No. 17 / Chugoku / Shikoku Showa before and during World War II (1927 to 1944) * Module No. 11 / Chugoku / Shikoku Showa after World War II (1945-1972) * Module No. 5 / Kyushu / Okinawa Meiji era (1873-1912) * Module No. 24 / Kyushu / Okinawa Taisho era (1913-1926) * Module No. 18 / Kyushu / Okinawa Showa before World War II / 1927 to 1944) * Module No. 12 / Kyushu / Okinawa Showa after World War II (1945-1972) * Module No. 6
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CyberPatent Desk
Patent information database
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
The following digital archives are available.
The New York Academy of Science
A database of primary materials from 1817 to 2009 in the possession of the New York Academy of Sciences, established in 1817. It contains interdisciplinary materials such as medicine, botany, climatology, zoology and important international conference materials. Handwritten documents are OCR processed and can be searched for text.
Since its founding the BAAS served to direct the acquisition of scientific knowledge, spread knowledge and discussion between scientists across the world, further science by removing obstacles to progress, and promote the public understanding of science. The BAAS archive contains an aggregation of collections from the BAAS and from archival collections related to the BAAS, contributed by various institutions across the United Kingdom.
Royal College of Physicians
A digital archive of the vast amount of medical material left by members of the Royal College of Physicians during its five-century history.
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E-books and Full-text databases (Japan)
The Maruzen eBook Library (MeL) is the e-book platform of Maruzen Yushodo. A variety of books are available online, such as "Chikyu no Arukikata (New Edition)", "Kaisha Shikiho (Company Handbook)", classic law books published by Yuhikaku, 16 volumes of "Proceedings of the Branch Managers' Meetings of Mitsui & Co." and graded readers. The number of simultaneous connections is one per title. The following is a list of major titles. Click on the title to access.
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384 titles of Yuhikaku's classic books in the field of civil law are available.
Minutes of 17 meetings from 1902 (the era of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.) to 1931 (the era of the former Mitsui & Co., Ltd.)
This is a series of graded readers for English learners, with levels 1 to 6. To search by level, please click here. Simultaneous access is limited to three per title.
This is a series of graded readers for English learners. The books are categorized by level. Simultaneous access is limited to three per title.
J-DAC contains important and rare original materials on modern and contemporary history, including various policy documents from diplomacy to domestic affairs, records of interviews and hearings, diaries and notebooks, memos, letters, and manuscripts and drafts. The following databases are available for cross-searching.
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Minoru Kusuda (1924-2003), the chief secretary who supported the longest post-war administration of Eisaku Sato (1964-1972), has left behind unpublished official residence documents. The collection contains a wide range of materials, such as speeches, drafts and memos of anticipated questions and answers in the Diet, and the original handbooks used by Prime Minister Sato at the end. Also included are materials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Defense Agency and other ministries, Kusuda's office memos and diaries, and records of interviews with intellectuals. The material covers such topics as the "reversion of Okinawa," Sino-Japanese relations, the response to the Vietnam War, the "three non-nuclear principles," measures against pollution, and the administration's media measures.
An extensive collection of documents belonging to Takeo Miki (1907-88), who served as 66th Prime Minister of Japan. In addition to primary sources showing the international situation particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and in Soviet-Chinese-US relations during the turbulent years of the 1960s to ‘80s, the “Related Documents on Takeo Miki” serve as a rich source of information on Japanese domestic affairs, including administrative and financial reform, pollution and environmental problems, social security, and issues in education.
A large cache of documents left by Masayoshi Ohira (1910-1980), 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan. It comprises a vast and varied selection of primary source material containing everything from diaries and notebooks written personally by Ohira, to correspondence, official documents from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Industry, manuscripts for responses to Diet questions, and for Diet speeches. Election material, plus transcripts of interviews with key political and finance officials conducted for the penning of Ohira’s memoirs are also included.
A huge collection of documents left by Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007), who served as the 78th Prime Minister. It consists of more than 7,000 original materials from the 1950s to the 2000s such as unpublished diaries and memos, diplomatic documents, policy materials within ministries and parties, and letters with domestic and foreign dignitaries. The database contains more than 200 books including unpublished diaries, notebooks, and memos of Saburo Okita (1914-1993), a postwar Japanese economist and economic affairs bureaucrat. The book contains the minutes of domestic and international conferences from the 1930s to the 1990s in which he participated in various important positions, as well as the detailed schedules of his overseas business trips and the details of his meetings with important people in various countries.
This is the collection of primary source material tracking developments in post-war Japanese social, labor, and social security policies
Demonstrates the history of local autonomy in Japan after the enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law
You can follow in the footsteps of postwar administrative and financial reforms.
Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd. closed its 100-year history in November 1997. This collection digitizes the unpublished internal documents of Yamaichi Securities for 100 years from its foundation to its bankruptcy.
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Contains 87 items from the collection of the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature, including Dazai's handwritten materials (notebooks, diaries, manuscripts, etc.), first-printed papers, and coterie magazines. The full text of his first published text can be searched.
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A collection of approximately 450 autographs of more than 60 modern writers of literature from the Meiji period to the early postwar period, held by the Kyoshi Memorial Museum (Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture). You can search and browse manuscripts, letters, and manuscripts of poetry meetings by such authors as Kyoshi Takahama, Soseki Natsume, Ogai Mori, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Shiki Masaoka, Haruo Sato, and Takashi Nagatsuka.
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This library contains the following materials: Shinpen Kokka Taikan (Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan), Shinpen ShikaShu Taisei (Classic Library), Kasho Shusei (Classic Library), and Koten HaibunGaku Taikei (Shueisha). To use this service, you need to install special software. If you are a new user, please click HERE（PDF）
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
You can access the academic achievements of the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE). You can also utilize the Institute's publications. The latest 5 years of monographs are available through a campus PC or VPN connection.
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You can use the full text of excavation reports on buried cultural properties issued by local governments nationwide.
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Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries
Materials that can be viewed at libraries that participate in the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries in the Digital Collections of the National Diet Library. You can use the service from specific PCs installed in the libraries. Please ask at the reference counter of each library.
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E-books and Full-text databases (International)
You can make a comprehensive search of 10,000 classic masterpieces and basic documents from the pre-Qin period to the founding of the Republic of China. Follow the instructions below on how to use this database. For further details, please refer to User's Manual (PDF).
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How to access
- Click on the title above.
- Authenticate with a Meiji University Authentication ID / password.
- Make sure you check, "Ancient Classics", leave "user name" and "password" blank, and click the "login" button.
- Select (click) "中國基本古籍庫" from the list.
- Click on “我巳閲讀" at the bottom left of the screen.
- To log out, click on "安全退出" at the upper right of the screen.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, documentary and news films were the main mass media available in China. This collection contains materials related to these films, mostly scripts in Chinese, along with some advertisements and newspaper clippings.
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Full-text database that digitizes relevant materials held by the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, etc., from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the Jordan Civil War in 1970.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
All reports and representative statistics from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are available. Annual reports, outlooks, policy reviews, minutes of meetings, analytical reports, guidelines, working papers, periodicals and their statistical databases and statistics contained in "Key tables" published since January 1998 are available.
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This is an electronic resource collection on sexuality and gender. The following collections are available.
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- LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I
- LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II
- International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture
For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
The British military action in Mesopotamia during World War I is noteworthy in terms of its impact on the war and the subsequent history of the Middle East. This collection consists of telegrams, correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and classified prints collected at the India office of the military department in Mesopotamia.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
Historical statistics of the United States
A collection of historical statistics of the United States from the colonial era to the 1970s. Online version of "Historical Statistics of the United States". Please access from the LOGIN button below.
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The digital collection of approximately 37,000 publications in all fields published in the United States between 1639 and 1800.
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A collection of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), deeply involved in the history of human rights in the United States in the 20th century. It is a digitized version of the approximately 1.87 million pages of ACLU archive material held by the Mudd Library at Princeton University. The collection contains a wide variety of materials, including newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, court files, memos, telegrams, minutes, legal records, reports published by the ACLU, correspondence exchanged by ACLU executives and members with outside organizations, and committee reports. This digital collection is useful not only for studies of American legal history but also for American history in general.
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It contains about 68,000 materials about the United States published from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century, based on Joseph Sabin's (1821-1881) famous bibliography "Bibliotheca Americana --a Dictionary of Books relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time".
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
Among the documents issued by the US federal government, it is equipped with declassified documents and contains more than 750,000 pages of government documents.
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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. All Japanese Americans were prohibited from living, working, or traveling on the West Coast. This was followed by forced evictions by the military, and people were placed in camps, many of whom were forced to stay behind barbed wire until the ban was lifted in December 1944. This collection contains the testimony of more than 750 witnesses at hearings held from July to December 1981 by the Congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Witnesses include Japanese-Americans, former government officials who carried out the camp project, internees, and historians.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
In February 1942, Presidential Decree 9066 was issued to forcibly resettle all Japanese descendants outside of military areas. This document contains demographic information on the inmates sent to the camps. The names of the inmates are listed in alphabetical order and include their names, gender, date of birth, marital status, U.S. citizenship status, alien registration number, method of admission to the camp, date of admission, and address before forced relocation.
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For Cross-searches with the databases of Gale Primary Sources, please use Gale Primary Sources platform.
In February 1942, Executive Order 9066 was issued to prevent intelligence activities and interference with military activities. As a result, Japanese-Americans were targeted for eviction, and about 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during the war, more than half of whom were born in the U.S. and held U.S. citizenship. This is a collection of the records of the incarceration of Japanese Americans held at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.
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The digital collection of 25 newspapers published by Japanese-Americans interned in concentration camps during World War II. (Collection period: 1942-1947)
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This collection consists of research and intelligence reports prepared during 1941-1961 on Japan.
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This collection consists of research and intelligence reports prepared during 1941-1961 on China.
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This collection consists of research and intelligence reports prepared during 1941-1961 on Korea.
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This collection consists of research and intelligence reports prepared during 1941-1961 on USSR.
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This is a collection of document files from the Consulates in Shenyang, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chongqing, Guangdong, and Kunming, the US Office of War Information, and the Office of War Information.
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This collection consists of briefing books, correspondence, memoranda, policy papers, reports, statistics, and other miscellaneous records from the Office of the Country Director for the Republic of China.
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This collection provides extensive documentation on a variety of presidential programs and initiatives.
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Declassified documents documenting the successes and failures of U.S. intelligence agencies in East Asia during the Cold War (1945-1991). It focuses on the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and North Vietnam, which were in conflict with the United States. Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia are also covered.
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A collection of government documents on the activities of US intelligence agencies in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Cyprus from 1945 to 1995.
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A collection of documents from US intelligence agencies in the Arab world, including the Middle East and North Africa.
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A collection of documents from US intelligence agencies in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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This is a digitized version of the materials in the Bush Presidential Library, which also includes materials related to demonstration activities that took place in China during the same period, focusing on the Tiananmen Square Incident in 1989.
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This is a digital collection of telegrams and minutes sent and received by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem between 1920 and 1940, concerning the British Mandate of Palestine.
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The U.S. consulates on the African continent served as clearinghouses for information on the activities of the colonial governments of European powers and the local people of Africa. This collection includes correspondence, reports, telegrams, maps, and a variety of other documents related to the American consulates. The French colonial collection focuses on the beginnings of the anti-colonial movement and the problems along the Moroccan-Algerian border. The collection also includes materials on such diverse topics as the political and economic aspects of colonization in Algeria, the governmental and administrative organization of Tunisia, and wire communications in French West Africa.
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The U.S. consulates on the African continent served as clearinghouses for information on the activities of the colonial governments of European powers and the local people of Africa. This collection includes correspondence, reports, telegrams, maps, and a variety of other documents related to the American consulates. The German Colonies collection contains reports on the activities of the German colonial government prior to World War I and the later mandate institutions.
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The U.S. Congress introduces and debates thousands of bills and enacts hundreds of laws (including amendments) every year. In the legislative process, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) provides a full range of information requested by Congress. The Congressional Research Service (CRS), which is part of the Library of Congress, was given administrative and budgetary independence by the Legislative Branch Reform Act of 1970, and has about 800 professional staff (the majority of whom are internationally renowned senior professionals). In addition to responding to congressional requests, the CRS frequently submits reports to Congress that anticipate the subject matter of proposed legislation and provide in-depth research and impartial, nonpartisan analysis (CRS Reports). This digital collection provides full-text searchable access to CRS reports and committee handouts since 2011.
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This collection digitizes important materials related to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed materials related to the implementation of the CAAA in 1990 and U.S. environmental issues and policies, including protection of endangered species and marshlands. Full text search is available.
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MOMW I
The collection contains 61,000 books and 466 periodicals from the Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature, University of London, and the Kress Library, Harvard University, on the history of economics, management, and social thought from the mid-15th century to 1850. Full text search is available.
MOMW II
This collection contains approximately 5,000 titles of books, pamphlets, and periodicals published between 1851 and 1914 from the Seligman Collection at Columbia University and Hiroshima University of Economics, the Economic History Collection at the University of Kansas Library, the Goldsmiths Collection of Economic Literature at the University of London, and the Kress Collection at Harvard University.
MOMW III
This collection contains approximately 5,000 titles of books and pamphlets published between 1890 and 1945 from the Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature, University of London.
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The above I and II can also be used on the NII-REO platform.
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This is a database of the history of economic thought that provides access to primary and secondary sources related to the study of economic thought from 1700 to 1914. Please see the User's Guide for details.
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This database is a collection of interdisciplinary digital content, including books and journals from all Taylor & Francis disciplines on the subject of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). 13,000+ selected articles and chapters covering the 17 development goals are included, as well as SDG-related materials such as presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans.
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This is a database of early English books published in English or in the U.K. between 1475 and 1700, containing approximately 23 million pages of image data from over 120,000 books.
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This is a full-text database of printed material published in English or in the UK between 1701 and 1800. All pages can be viewed as images and all words in the text can be searched in full text. The database includes not only books, but also printed materials such as monographs, Bibles, pamphlets, handbooks, dictionaries, annuals, and maps (excluding prints and newspapers).
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Contains a wide range of primary sources from the so-called "long nineteenth century". All pages can be viewed as images, and all words in the text can be searched by full text. The contents include books and monographs, newspapers, magazines, diaries and letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, maps and statistics, mainly in English and non-Western languages.
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Contains the minutes of the proceedings of the British parliament (Hansard).
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This database mainly contains documents from the British House of Commons from the end of the 17th century to the 20th century. The NII-REO platform allows cross-searching with other databases.
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This database contains parliamentary materials from 2004/2005 onwards, and can be cross-searched with HCCP 19c / 20c on the ProQuest platform.
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This collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952.
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It contains documents from the British State Intelligence Service in the possession of the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) eBook collection.
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An e-book platform provided by EBSCO. More than 200 titles, mainly basic academic books (foreign) in the humanities and social sciences, are available. The number of simultaneous connections is limited to one access per title.
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67 titles published in 2021, 2020, 2019 for middle and high school students (Mid-High) are available. (As of January 2022)
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An e-book platform that mainly contains reference materials (dictionaries and encyclopedias). You can also search directly from the title list.
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Books published from 1973 to 1996 are available on the NII-REO platform.
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Books published from 1964 to 1996 are available.
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Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is an online e-book platform for Oxford University Press' academic books (excluding handbooks), covering 20 fields from the humanities and social sciences to medical sciences.
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An online version of the Oxford Handbooks series of high-level essays covering academic fields. It provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and future directions in each field.
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An e-book platform for 600+ titles of foreign books provided by ProQuest. The number of simultaneous connections is one access per title.
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ScienceDirect is an electronic resource platform provided by Elsevier. You can access review articles and essays on the latest research trends, as well as reference books such as encyclopedias. You can access the list of e-book titles.
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E-journals and E-magazines (Japan)
This service allows you to search and browse magazines published by Nikkei BP and other publishers. The magazine articles can be browsed in text or PDF format. There is a limit to the number of full-text articles that can be browsed. Please do not download the same article more than once.
Application required: Part-time lecturers and research promoters need to apply for use of the database.
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Note: Lecturers (part-time) or researchers (non-tenured) are required to apply for use.
You can use the economic, business and corporate information magazines of Toyo Keizai Inc. such as "Weekly Toyo Keizai", "Kaisha Shikiho" and "Shushoku Shikiho".
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The following journals are available, and you can search and use the text across them all.
東洋経済 (Toyo Keizai)
Toyo Keizai" contains 2,152 volumes of approximately 170,000 pages covering the 50-year period from 1895 to 1945 (from first issue to No. 2202). It is searchable by table of contents including variant characters and old kanji.
東洋経済新報 (Toyo Keizai Shimpo)
"Toyo Keizai Simpo" contains approximately 3,500 volumes from 1946 to 2015 (No. 2203 to No. 6634), covering 70 years from the postwar Showa period to the Heisei period.
Diamond Weekly
"Diamond Weekly" PLUS (Volumes included: first issue - 2015) contains articles from the weekly economic magazine "Diamond Weekly". Articles from the first issue to 2015 are available.
Weekly Economist
"Weekly Economist" contains articles from business magazines published by Mainichi Shimbun Publishing.
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A total of 397 archives from the first issue of "Mita Bungaku" (May 1910) to the November 1944 issue. In addition to magazine article search and advertisement search, it also contains a list of authors and explanations.
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This is a monthly science magazine that provides easy-to-understand articles rather than the scholarly papers published in “Nature” itself.
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An electronic journal platform provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). You can use the journals related to science and technology information in Japan free of charge.
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Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences: A, Communications: B, Electronics: C, Information and Systems: D are available.
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An electronic journal provided by the Global Business Research Center (GBRC).
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E-journals and E-magazines (International)
The American Antiquarian Society's collection of historical magazines has been digitized into this database. With more than 6,000 periodicals and over 7 million pages. This collection provides a comprehensive view of the history of American magazines from the mid to late 19th century.
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This is an online database of British academic journals published in the 19th century in Britain and its overseas colonies, providing digitized images of the original pages. The database consists of two parts: Part I contains 90 journals on the theme "New Readership" and Part II contains 91 journals on the theme "Empire".
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This is "Country Report", a political and economic report for each country published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It is available only from Surugadai Campus. The available countries are as follows.
Algeria / Angola / Comoros / Gambia / Kenya / Madagascar / Mauritania / Rwanda / Senegal / Seychelles / Tanzania / Tunisia / Uganda
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Digitization of materials held by the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg). It consists of various types of materials published during the last 30 years of the imperial Russian era, and includes non-theatrical and non-movie entertainment such as cabaret theaters and circuses as materials on pre-revolutionary Russian popular culture.
Digitization of materials held by the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg). Contains 13 theater magazines that provide detailed information about theaters in Russia's "Silver Age".
CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) is an academic information database in China. "The Fields of Political and Military Law" of the Chinese Academic Journal (CAJ) is available (from 1994 to the latest issue).
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This is a database of electronic journals of Korean academic societies, containing full text of about 1,800 periodicals and about 1,430 non-periodicals published by more than 1,300 academic societies and research institutes, as well as the table of contents of Chosun Ilbo and Dong-a Ilbo.
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The database contains about 5,000 academic and trade journals in the field of business and management information, of which about 3,900 are available in full text.
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Contains accounting, tax, and financial publications.
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Electronic journals collection provided by the Association for Computer and Machinery (ACM), which provides access to journals, conference proceedings and SIG bulletins published by the ACM. It contains more than 1.6 million computer-related articles, books, conference proceedings, and other bibliographic data.
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An electronic journal provided by the American Chemical Society (ACS). 36 full text titles since 1996 are available.
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This is an electronic version of journals published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Full text is available from backfiles to current for titles for which print subscriptions have been cancelled.
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Among the titles published by Annual Reviews, Biomedical, Life Science and other titles are available.
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It contains high-quality French academic journals (about 400 journals, more than 150,000 papers since 2001) in major fields in the humanities and social sciences.
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Cambridge University Press's electronic journal platform. It contains academic journals in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.
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A collection of 170 electronic journals in the fields of business, management and economics.
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Approximately 1,000 major American law magazines are available in full text from the first issue. In addition to magazines, the US Government Bulletin "Federal Register" and the official casebook "US Reports" are also available in full text from the first issue.
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The package (IEL Online) is available containing magazines, conference proceedings, and industrial standards published by the IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and IET (Institution of Electrical Engineers of the United States) since 1988.
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Journals in the fields of biological science, biophysics, cell biology, and molecular biology. Available from the first issue in 1905 to the latest issue.
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Contains back numbers of e-journals in the Humanities and Sociology. Some titles contain the latest issues. The following collections are available:
Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VII titles
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This database contains full-color images of National Geographic, a scientific enlightenment magazine published by the National Geographic Society of the U.S., from its first issue in 1888 to its 1994 publication. It is equipped with full-text search and Web-based original search and analysis functions.
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In addition to "Nature", Nature-related magazines such as Life Science and Physical Science are available.
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Electronic journals published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, focusing on economics.
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An online journal published by MIT Press for the study of modern and contemporary art history aesthetics and visual culture.
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The Optical Society of America journals and conference proceedings are available.
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This database includes academic journals covering areas such as the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities and social sciences published by Oxford University Press.
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Electronic journals provided by the American Physical Society (APS). Full text is available from backfiles to current titles for which print subscriptions have been cancelled. It includes the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA), an archiving service for back issues (1893-1999).
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Contains more than 420 electronic journals mainly in the fields of the humanities and sociology. It covers fields such as literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, politics, gender studies, and economics.
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Electronic journals provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The accessible start year varies depending on the title, but generally the full text after 1997 can be accessed.
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An electronic version of "Science" published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Available from the first issue in 1880 to the latest issue.
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Electronic journals provided by Elsevier. It contains about 2,200 journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, and social science, and the full text of articles (backfiles) from 1996 and earlier are also available.
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Notes on how to use this database:
The subscription system has changed since April 2014. Comprehensive subscription has been canceled and changed to subscription for each title. Click HERE (PDF) for the 2021 subscription titles.
Application required: If you wish to read a title for which we do not have a subscription, you need to apply to the library in advance. This service is available to graduate students, academic faculty (tenured and non-tenured), full-time faculty staff and research promoters (excluding non-tenured researchers). Undergraduate students cannot apply for this service, but they can receive PDF files of articles free of charge by making a request at the reference counter.
It mainly contains academic journals (about 500 journals) in the fields of medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and the social sciences.
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Notes on how to use the database:
The subscription system has changed from January 2018. Comprehensive subscription has been canceled and changed to subscription for each title.
It contains about 460 journals representing the various fields of science, technology, and medicine.
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Notes on how to use the database:
The subscription has changed from January 2017. Comprehensive subscription has been canceled and changed to subscription for each title. In addition, subscribed magazines can only be accessed from designated campuses. If you wish to use the service from a campus other than the designated campus, please contact the reference counter. We will order the material available from the designated campus.
Application for use of databases
Emeritus Professors, Researchers (non-tenured), etc.
Lecturers (part-time)
Other Notes
- To apply, a library card is required.
- It will take several days from applying to start using databases.
Application for use of E-journal “ScienceDirect”
Target Users
Undergraduate students cannot apply, but by requesting at the reference counter, undergraduate students can get the PDF of an article free of charge.
Precautions for use
Details of application
- ScienceDirect PPV Application Procedure (PDF) *Written in Japanese
- [2023 ed.] ScienceDirect PPV Article Download Procedure (PDF) *Written in Japanese
How to access from off-campus
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- Open the web site of the online service and select "Log in" or "Sign in".
- Select logins such as: Institutional Login / Federated access / Sign in via your Institution / Access via Shibboleth / Access via Shibboleth.
- If you are asked to select a federation, select "学認フェデレーション”GakuNin”" (日本Japan).
- Select (or search) this university’s name such as 明治大学 / Meiji University / Meiji Daigaku in the selection, and log in.
- The Meiji University integrated authentication web site will be displayed. Enter your ID and password, click "Login", and select "Agree to send information".