Research Tool

user guide (in Japanese)

It is a database of tables of contents, headlines, advertisements and so on from 13,787 magazines and newspapers owned by Gordon W. Prange Collection (Maryland University in the U.S.).

About (in Japanese)

This is the portal site provided by National Institute of Informatics. Users can cross search databases such as document information of each branch of learning or old documents databases.

User Guide(in Japanese) ／ Title Lists

This is the world biggest full text database for academic institutions including all of general fields such as human science, social science, natural science, medicine, science and engineering and so on.
Users can read the index and the abstract of articles carried by about 12,500 journals. ( the full texts of about 8,600 out of 12,500 journals.)

Journals A-Z ｜ ACS Terms and Conditions of Use　／　Tutorials

It contains online journals of about 40 journals published by American Chemical Society (ACS).

Tutorials ／ Contents List

It contains materials from the presidential election in 1860 (Lincoln was elected), the Civil War, until the end of World War Ⅱ.

Users can see not only important documents, personal diaries and letters but visual materials such as maps , sketch books and photos related to the topics written below. Full color and full text.
・Slavery
・Westward movement
・World War Ⅰ(An american nurse’s diary and documents about infantry)
・Economic growth and Gilded Age
・Women’s suffrage movement (including an enormous number of letters written by       Susan B. Anthony)
・The Great Depression and the New Deal (including criticism of Herbert Hoover)
・World War Ⅱ (including Morris Weiner’s World War Ⅱ collection and materials about Okinawa)

user guide (in Japanese)

This database is made up of annual reports, assembly records, speeches of annual conventions and newsletters (The ALI Reporter) of the American Law Institute. It also contains documents of Restatement of Torts, Model Penal Code, and Statement of Essential Human Rights.
Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.

online user guide ｜ help ｜ Research Packs

This is the online version of  ” American national biography ” (24 volumes in total), the biggest reference of the american biographical dictionaries. This database widely includes people who influenced all the fields of an American history. It is valuable and essential for researches on a history , a society, an economic history and a culture of North America.

Basic Quick Reference Guide (in Japanese)

This database contains specialized journals, general magazines, specialized magazines such as literary magazines, magazines for children and women and so on published in America.

Navigating the Physical Review Journals ｜ License Agreement and Terms and Conditions ｜ Terms and Conditions

Users can read the full texts of  ” Physical Review A, B, C, D, E” and ” Physical Review Letters” offered by American Physical Society.

user guide ｜ terms of use

Users can read the full texts of publications about developing countries/areas’ economical/political/social problems published by Institute of Developing Economies (JETRO). It contains the full texts of 494 books such as “Kenkyu Sousho”, “Ajiken Sensho”, “Jouhou Bunseki Report”, “Asia wo miru me”, etc. published after 1990.

Adam Matthew Standard Licence Agreement  ｜ Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980: Section I Contents ｜ Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980: Section II Contents ｜ Foreign Office Files for India Flyer

Collection (Rikkyo University has contract for)
「Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980」

• Section Ⅰ. Independence, Partition and Nehru Era, 1947-1964
• Section Ⅱ. South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971

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user guide (in Japanese)

This database contains materials such as historical documents, precious letters, memoranda, newsletters and so on.
1. “The Savings and Loan Crisis: Loss of Public Trust and the Federal Bailout, 1989-1993”
2. “Hollywood, Moral Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968”
3. “European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies in Asia and the Pacific: From Colonialism to Japanese Mandates, 1910-1929”
4. “19th Century English-Language Journals from the Far East”
5. “The Observer: News for the American Soldier in Vietnam, 1962-1973”
6. “Country Intelligence Reports on Japan 1941-1947. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports.”
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terms of use ｜ HELP is on the tool section of the page after logging in.

Users can do multiple source searches of historical material databases.
Contracted databases:

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
• The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)

Users can search survey research information of the contents written below.

Accounting standards・application guidelines, business handling reports (detailed consideration process, the main points of proceedings, materials, etc.), open drafts, arrangements of points of discussions, IASB, SAC, detailed consideration process (liaison countries conference), various systems about company accounting・company finance.

Please come to Ikebukuro library  B1F counter, and then the counter staff will search instead of you.

HELP (in Japanese) ｜ terms of use (in English)

This is the database of “Yearbook of Asian Affairs” (from 1970 until the latest issue) published by Institute of Developing Economies (JETRO). About the important topics of Asia after 1969 and 22 countries 1 area in Asia + Central Asia・Russia Far East area, users can search by full-text and download the chief economic indicators by country and year.

Search Guide (in Japanese)｜ Quick Search Guide (in Japanese)｜ Advanced User Guide and Glossary (in Japanese) ｜ Terms and Conditions of Use (translated in Japanese by service provider)｜ details of subscribed contents (in Japanese)

This is an online version of magazines and books (comments and handbooks) published by “Beck” in Germany.

user guide (MS PowerPoint)

This is a literature database of British and Irish history (B.C.55～the present) made by the Royal Historical Society.

HELP is on the page after logging in. ｜ Terms of membership ( in Japanese)｜Shogakukan Corpus Network online tutorials (in Japanese)

The world’s biggest the British National Corpus (BNC) was completed in 1994 and it contains 100 million words of written and spoken language.
It contains BNC world edition, which is revised version of BNC.
(Some texts were replaced because of copyright problems and corrected).

This is the online version of ” Book Review Digest” published by H.W. Wilson.
This is the database with which users can search the book reviews carried by 110 magazines and newspapers (related to Science, Human science and Social science) published in the U.S., Canada and U.K.

quick guide (in Japanese) ｜ user guide (in Japanese)

This is the nation’s biggest book database provided by NICHIGAI ASSOCIATES, INC.
In addition to book titles, authors and publishers, you can see table of contents, summaries, and story lines.

user guide (in Japanese)

It offers business reports of about 10000 Japanese main companies from 1877 until 1950 (around the revision of the Commercial Code). It contains prospectuses of about 2000 companies in the Showa 20’s (1945-1954) and security reports of about 2400 companies from 1961 until 1985.

EBSCOhost Search Guide (in Japanese) ｜ Business Source Complete User Guide (in Japanese)

This database widely covers major fields of economics and business administration and it contains not only journals, but various information such as books, economic reports, industrial reports, market researches, SWOT analyses and so on.
It contains indexes and abstracts of over 13,500 publications and about more than 12,000 titles (of over 13,500 titles) users can read the full texts.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ subscribed title list

This is the e-book collection of Cambridge University Press, which covers all the fields of human science, social science, natural science and medicine. Users can search all the titles by full-text, key words and contents. Concerning titles Rikkyo University bought, users can read the full texts (PDF file).

user guide

This is the online version of “Cambridge Companions” series, which briefly summarize major writers, artists, topics and periods. Rikkyo university has contract for 197 titles (Philosophy, Religion, and Culture collection).

Introduction and instruction is on each file after logging in.

Contracted files (Rikkyo University):
・Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
・Handbook of Pragmatics Online
・Translation Studies Bibliography
・Handbook of Translation Studies Online

HELP ｜ Terms of Use

This is the online journal package of all the fields of journals (about 250 volumes) published by Cambridge University Press.

user guide (in Japanese)

This is the platform which provides data as follows:
・Financial data, attribute data of 60,000 listed or delisted companies and 1,500,000 unlisted companies in more than 80 countries worldwide.
・Private equities : 14,000 profiles
・900,000 listed stocks
・Capital transaction information such as M&A, IPO
・Board members’ information
・GICS
・Macroeconomy data
Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.

user guide “Chatham House Online Archive PowerPoint Presentation”(7MB)

This database provides digitized materials of Royal Institute of International Affairs’ (Chatham House) publications & sound materials. Rikkyo university has contract for Part 1 (1920-1979).

user guide (in Japanese)

The Dong-a Ilbo , Korea Joongang Daily and The Chosun Ilbo are the top three big newspapers in Korea. Users can read from the first issue till the latest issue of The Chosun Ilbo. After 1990, users can full text search.

terms of use

This is the article database of “Chunichi Shimbun” and “Tokyo Shimbun”.
〇Chunichi Shimbun
“Chunichi Shimbun” contains almost all the articles of more than 20 local editions (Aichi prefecture, Gifu prefecture and Mie prefecture).
April 1987～ the last edition (the local edition)
April 1989～ Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Fukui, Nagano
January 1995～All the area versions of Mie
April 1995～ All the area versions of Gifu
January 1996～ All the area versions of Aichi
〇Tokyo Shimbun
“Tokyo Shimbun” is a local edition of the metropolitan area.
April 1997～ the last edition (Tokyo)
April 2009～ All the area versions of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Gumma, Tochigi, the eastern part of Shizuoka

Users can see 4 online journals (“Kigyou Kaikei”, “Zeimu Kouhou”, “Keiri Jouhou” and “Business Houmu”), kaikeizensho online and kaikeigaku library. Users can read past journal articles focused on accounting/tax service/legal works and the latest laws/standards of accounting/tax service.

Church Missionary Society Periodicals Titles List ｜ Terms of use ｜ Adam Matthew Standard Licence Agreement

This is the full-text database of periodicals published by Church Missionary Society in 1804-2009.
Users can use the below sections.
・Module1. Global Missions and Contemporary Encounters, 1841-2009
・Module2. Journals, Asian Missions and The Historical Record, 1816-1986

About CiNii ｜ terms of use

This is the academic information database service of articles, books, journals and so on, provided by National Institute of Informatics (NII). READ isn’t compatible with some services.
【CiNii Articles】 Users can search academic article information such as academic society journals, university research bulletins and the National Diet Library’s Japanese periodicals index database. In viewing paid contents, please use the site license individual ID.
The site license individual ID : Rikkyo University is institutional fixed price user. University members (except outside visitors) can register. Be sure to register from laptops on campus. Users have to pay their fee by themselves.
【CiNii Books】Users can search information of books and journals owned by university libraries all over Japan.
【CiNii Dissertations】Users can search dissertations written at Japanese universities. If dissertations opened to the National Diet Library’s digital collection or university repositories, users can read the full text.

KNS5.5　China Academic Journals user guide (in Japanese) ｜ KNS5.5　China YearbooksFull-text Database user guide (in Japanese) ｜ KNS5.5　China Statistical Yearbooks Database user guide (in Japanese)

CNKI China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database is the key project of national informatization construction.
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The digitized collection by C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University.
・Korea related documents in Japanese : 87 titles
・Impressions of the beginning of Korea opening in Western European languages (mostly English) : 48 titles
・Colonial-period literature in Korean : 135 titles

■Japan code (Hanrei Taikei) : The database of Japan code published after Meiji Era, which were reviewed, classified and sorted.
■Current laws and regulations (Genkou Houki) : Japanese current laws and regulations were compiled in this legal database.
■Current legal information (Houritsu Hanrei Bunken Jouhou) : This is the database which contains about 1300 legal books, legal journals, and legal signed articles carried by major newspapers.

User guide is on the page after logging in.

The database contains provisions before and after revision of laws and regulations (tax service and accounting). It provides about  2,800 laws, notices and materials related tax and auditing.
ID/PW are required for Off-Campus. Please contact the library counter.

DBpia user guide (in Japanese)

This is the online journal database of Korean scholarly journals. Rikkyo University has contract for the fields of human science and social science.

Digital Sanborn Maps Database Guide  ｜ Digital Sanborn Maps Product Overview

Rikkyo University has contract for Hawaii only.

“Digital Sanborn Maps” is the online version of the large scale maps, which recorded buildings, roads, uses and so on in detail of the all over U.S. cities from 1867 to 1970.
More details : outlines of the buildings, areas, structures, positions of the windows and the doors, widths of the roads and the sidewalks, the boundaries, uses of the buildings, addresses and so on.

Overview ｜ Terms & Conditions

This database focuses on laws of WTO and is a comprehensive online information source about international trade laws. It contains dispute resolution annotations, NAFTA documents, GATT WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports, WTO arbitration reports, Uruguay Round Agreement, GATT Tokyo Agreement, Vienna convention on the Law of Treaties and so on. Users can full text search and read the full texts. In addition, it provides summaries, annotations and analyses of these reports and new interpretations whenever new precedents or new dispute resolution reports appear (within 3 weeks).

user guide (in Japanese)

A Korean daily newspaper, THE DONG-A ILBO launched on April 1, 1920. CHOSUN ILBO, KOREA JOONGANG DAILY, and THE DONG-A ILBO are the top three big newspapers in Korea. After 1990 users can search by full-text. And users can use this database by automatically logging in from database “KISS”.

“Shashin Tokuhou” was a sheet of news handout (main content was photos) distributed daily by “Doumei Tsushinsha”, a nation policy news agency. It was printed 100,000 sheets a day, mainly distributed to schools, factories, mines, forestries, stores and put up as a wall newspaper.

eBooks user guide (in Japanese)

※NetLibrary   Besides titles contracted by Rikkyo University, you can read the main body of copyright free titles.

The E-BOOK collection which contains E-BOOK published by about 500 publishers worldwide. Users can search and read from one platform. It provides books of highly reliable publishers worldwide and covers various fields.

EBSCOhost Search Guide (in Japanese)

Users can use below databases.
・Academic Search Complete
・Book Review Digest Plus
・Business Source Complete
・eBook Collection※Netlibrary
・EconLit
・Green FILE
・MLA Directory of Periodicals
・MLA International Bibliography
・Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)
・PsyARTICLES※Available at Niiza Campus (Psychology) only : Ikebukuro Campus users can apply the Inter-Campus Delivery.
・PsyINFO※Available at Niiza Campus (Psychology) only
・Readers’ guide to periodical literature
・Regional Business News
・SocINDEX with Full Text
[more info]

EBSCOhost Search Guide (in Japanese) ｜EconLit Search Guide (in Japanese)

The secondary information (indexes, abstracts, etc.) database of economic research produced by American Economic Association. It contains books, journals, minutes, theses and working papers.

Gale NewsVault user guide (in Japanese)

The online version of “The Economist”, a business journal. “The Economist” provides detailed precise analyses and clear reports on world economics, politics, business, finance, science, technology and so on.

user guide in Japanese (MS Word)

The online version of “The Eighteenth Century” (microfilm version). It contains all of the printings printed in English or U.K. in the 18th century (1701-1800). Printings details : books, a fly sheet, bibles, pamphlets, guides, dictionaries, yearbooks, maps, etc. Users can see all the pages by images.
※March 2016 ECCOⅡ additionally contracted (a search screen is the same).

HELP ｜ Legal Notice

This is the database of digitized correspondence left by illuminators, who worked actively from the beginning of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century (For example, Voltaire, Rousseau, Newton and Kant). This was provided by the project of Oxford University Press and Oxford University Bodleian Library. Correspondence’s counterpart is a family member, a friend, a bank, a bookstore, a publisher, a patron, etc. Through descriptions expressing illuminator’s voice, time background, relationships and private lives, “Electronic Enlightenment” provides new finding place of historical research, research of thought and research of characters.

Using book and chapter pages ｜ Take a tour ｜ Privacy Policy and Legal Notices

The online platform which contains Edward Elgar’s more than 2500 titles of electronic books, journals and references (including monographs, handbooks and companions). About the titles contracted by Rikkyo University, users can read the full texts (PDF files).

Help ｜ Terms of use

This is a large database which provides all of Empire’s materials from explorations of Columbus until today (about 5 centuries). It contains diaries, letters, magazines, travel records, logbooks, novels, plays, exposition records, missionary materials, etc.

Online manual is on the “HELP” of the menu “Other” after logging in.

Users can see listed companies’ financial statements, financial data and earnings briefings. Rikkyo University doesn’t have contract for earnings briefings flash and financial analysis information. If users would like to see listed companies’ information in Asia, please use “eol Asia One” on the upper right of the screen after log in.

Quick Reference Guide-Basic (in Japanese)｜ ERIC journal title list

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is provided by United States Department of Education. It offers information of education and its related fields.

Quick Guide (in Japanese)

It provides a wide range of business information such as major newspapers, news, company information, market information worldwide including Japan. Users can also see company financial information, market data (from present to past), and analyst report provided by Investext, etc.

Help is on the page after logging in. ｜ Terms of use ｜ Onesheet ｜ Overview Presentation

It provides “Financial Times” from the first issue (1888) until 2010 with original page images. Users can search by the full text, refine their search by the article column, the issue date, etc. and read every issue.

user guide (in Japanese)

It contains important materials of international law such as publications of American Society of International Law, Hague Permanent Court of International Justice and so on. Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.

Terms of Use

・Archives Unbound
・Artemis Primary Sources
・Chatham House Online Archive
・Eighteenth Century Collections Online
・The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2007
・Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
・Gale Virtual Reference Library
・National Geographic Virtual Library
・Opposing Viewpoints In Context
・The Making of the Modern World
・The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
・World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean
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Gale NewsVault User’s Guide 1 (in Japanese) ｜Gale NewsVault User’s Guide 2 (in Japanese)

This is the e-book type reference tool provided by Gale Group. Users can cross search all the titles which Rikkyo University has contract for. Users can confirm the latest contracted titles using e-resources A-Z.

help ｜ Terms of Service

Users can search academic materials of academic publishers, academic associations, universities and so on without restrictions such as publishers or fields.

Adam Matthew Standard Licence Agreement  ｜ The Grand Tour Contents

The database which contains letters, diaries, magazines, logbooks, guide books, sketches, maps related to the Grand Tour (in the 18th century rich aristocratic young people traveled abroad as their studies in U.K.) Most of the materials are owned by private collections or archives (exhibited limitedly) and rare.
Travel Writing collections which Rikkyo University has contract for.
Medieval Travel Writing : Manuscripts of travel writings from the 13th century until the 16th century.
The Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History : Diaries, travel writings and letters written by women in the 19th-20th century.

Terms and Conditions

The database which contains all the transcripts of lectures of the Hague Academy of International Law. It is highly evaluated as first-quality research results by authoritative researchers and business persons in the field of international public law, international private law and the related fields.

user guide (in Japanese)

“Hein Online” is provided by an academic publisher in the field of law “William S. Hein & Co., Inc.”. It contains more than 1,100 periodicals of law or law related from the first issue and the full texts are also available. (The latest issue has an embargo). Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.
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user guide (in Japanese) ｜ explanatory note (in Japanese)

It contains the first historical records of the whole industrial policy’s various actual conditions before and after the war and the research materials in history of international trade and industry compiled by related institutions.
The range of the contract First materials: Materials given by Shinji Yoshino, Yoji Minobe, Yoshiteru Kogane and Kingo Tsuji
Related compiled materials: “Nikkan Tsusansho Kouhou” Jan. 1949～Dec. 1968.

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user guide (in Japanese)

It contains Parliamentary materials as important materials studying U.K. and neighboring countries.
Rikkyo University has contract for two databases written below.
・Nineteenth / Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers : It contains the full texts of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers including charts, maps, etc…in the 19th-20th century (1801-2005).
・Eighteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers : It provides about 1 million pages of all kinds of documents in the period called “Long” 18th century (1660-1834).
[more info]

Quick Search Guide (in Japanese)

This service is provided by IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation), an international tax service research institution.
Contents and outlines of contracted databases:
・European Tax Explorer Plus：European Tax Information Database. It covers tax systems of the whole Europe. Tax News Service / Tax Treaty Case Law / EC Direct Tax Case Law /Global Tax Survey / International Tax Glossary / Tax Treaties Database (Europe)
・Global Tax Analyses
・European Taxation Journal Online
・VAT (Value-added tax)  in Europe

HELP ｜ user guide (in Japanese) ｜ information for users (in Japanese) ｜ About (in English)

The database of domestic medical articles produced by Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS). Users can search periodicals of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and related fields and about 5000 journals’ article information published in Japan. Please ask  library’s counter about ID/PW.

user guide (in Japanese)

International Institute for Strategic Studies [IISS] publishes Military Balance (reports on world military situations). This database provides the latest data and the original analyses about more than 75 armed conflicts by IISS.

CCH IntelliConnect Quick Start Guide

Rikkyo University has contract for the content “Securities (Federal)”. Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.

The online version of “International Affairs”, monthly journals published by The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Users can read the full texts of documents obtained permission by copyright owners.
・International affairs important chronologies (from 1945 until two months before)
・International affairs important documents (1990～）, etc.

The online version of “International African Bibliography”.

The portal site which contains information of Japanese culture researches. For example, the database of rare books and materials about ghost (Yo-kai) picture scrolls, old maps, tanka/haiku and the research support database. Some databases require application for use.

About JAIRO ｜ user guide

Users can cross-search academic information stored in the domestic academic institutions’ repositories.

contents (in Japanese) ｜ terms of membership (in Japanese)

This is the database of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Users can search about 50 contents such as Nipponica, English-Japanese dictionaries, Japanese-English dictionaries, English-English dictionaries, etc. It also contains web based Nihon Kindai Bungaku Kan.

Access Rules

Users can search publications of academic associations provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

This is the full-text online journal service of human science and social science form the first issue until several years before the latest issue (moving wall settings to protect publishers’ profit-making rights).
[more info]

Quick Guide (in Japanese) ｜ Search Guide (in Japanese)

This is the database of laws and precedents in Germany and EU. It contains laws, government ordinances, orders, administrative regulations, the full texts of every courts’ precedents and instant relationships. It provides abstracts of about 650 titles of German law journals and series periodicals. Off-campus access ID/PW can be issued for full-time teachers and graduates. Please contact the library counter.

terms of use

This is the database of Kahoku Shimpo articles after August 1991. It covers Tohoku area information and international & domestic news.

user guide ｜ terms of use

This is the internet search service of Kanpou, the Official Gazette (original, extra, government procurement, data, indexes).
How to use :
Students → Please contact the library counter and the counter staff will search instead of you.
Faculties and staffs → Please get your ID at the library counter.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ user guide for assignment (in Japanese) ｜ user guide for getting started job-hunting (in Japanese)

This database contains The Asahi Shimbun (1985～）, reduced-size editions (Meiji～Showa : 1879～1989), AERA(The first issue～) and Shukan Asahi (APRIL 2004～).
Users can also use “Chiezo”, “Jinbutsu database” and “Asahi Shimbun Rekishi Shashin Archive”.

user guide (in Japanese)

This is Korea’s biggest online journal database of scholarly journals provided by Korean Studies Information (KSI). It contains about 1200 scholarly journals and more than 1300 periodicals. You can read about 1000 periodicals. It provides the indexes of CHOSUN ILBO and THE DONG-A ILBO.
※Rikkyo University has contract for the fields of human science and social science.
※From off-campus access, do not open the full text PDF directly and please download it.

user guide (in Japanese)

This is Kenkyusha’s online dictionary search service. It contains Kenkyusha’s New English-Japanese Dictionary sixth edition and Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition for the extensive demands of English business and English learning.

explanatory notes (in Japanese)

This is the database of “Kokushi Daijiten” (Total 15 volumes, total 17 books), the biggest Japanese historical encyclopedia published by Yoshikawa kobunkan in between 1979 and 1997. Besides about 54000 entry words of the book version, about 4000 crossheads were added as search objects.

user guide is on the bottom section of the page after logging in.

It is the Korean speech information database, which send Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s major speeches and academic information to the world in real time. Besides “Roudou Shimbun”, “Minshu Chousen”, “Bungaku Shimbun”, “Touitsu Shimpou”, “Pyongyang Times”, “Chousen Shimpou Pyongyang Shikyoku News (KPM Original)”, it contains 15 academic journals and literary magazines such as “Senriuma”, “Chousen Bungaku”, “Chousen Geijutsu”, “Jidou Bungaku”, “Seinen Bungaku”, etc. Users can only browse the contents. Quotations and reproduction prohibited.

Quick Guide (in Japanese)

This is online journal database of Korean scholarly journals provided by Korea’s biggest bookstore, Kyobo Book Centre. It contains more than 500 kinds of scholarly journals published by more than 300 academic institutions and research institutes in Korea.

user guide (in Japanese)

The Korea’s biggest portal site specialized in law. It contains legal information. A large variety of legal information integrated search and connecting each legal information with mutual links enables material analyses in various views. It contains old provisions and you can compare with present provisions.

Guides are on lexis.com Support (in Japanese)

This is the legal integrated database which contains laws, precedents, patents, law related books, etc all over the world. It also contains news, company information, marketing information, etc. Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.
※English version please access from the above link and choose the tab “lexis.com”.

Guides are on LexisNexis Academic Support (in Japanese)

It contains a large variety of information such as general newspaper or magazine articles, business information, law information, medicine information, etc.
※If users use remote access, please use the English version.

user guide (in French)

It provides a wide range of reliable French legal information and updates quickly. It contains not only primary contents such as laws and precedents, but also a lot of secondary information added high value.

Quick Reference Guide (in Japanese)｜ Linguistics and Language Behavior LibGuide ｜ Title List

The journal article index database related to linguistics.

terms of use (in Japanese)

A comprehensive law information system was improved for law school and was strengthened from the viewpoint of information and functions. Consequently LLI comprehensive Law Information System was completed. In addition to an enormous amount of full texts precedents, it contains comments carried on major law journals (HANREI TIMES, Jurist, etc…), law journals such as Supreme courts precedents explanations and dissertations, exegeses and articles carried on literatures.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ quick guide (in Japanese) ｜ terms of use (in Japanese)

This journal article information database contains journal article information as well as annual research reports of humanities and sociology published by domestic academic journals after the war and title information of a collection of academic papers.
・Journals with ISSN are linked to Rikkyo University OPAC and Webcat Plus.
・J-STAGE link is link to articles. Users can read access free articles, but except access free articles, they cannot read. (Readers’ numbers are needed).

user guide

The article index database of Japanese magazines published in Japan (including ex-colonies). It covers not only national magazines but local magazines from the beginning of the Meiji era from the present.

user guide (simple) ｜ user guide (advanced) ｜ terms of use (English)

Users can search the following materials.
・Mainichi Shimbun article search (headline search: 1872～, headline and body search: 1987～）
・Paper search (1872～1999）
・Online reduced editions (1989～1999）
・Shukan Economist, a Japanese economic weekly magazine (1988～）
・Mainichi Daily News

HELP is on the upper section of the page after logging in.

This database provides the full text of “Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature by University of London” and “Kress Library of Business and Economics by Harvard Business School” which are appreciated overseas as social scientific historical collections. It contains about 65900 books in the field of social science such as economic history, business history and social thought history from the middle of the 15th century until 1914, 466 periodicals launched in the same period, pamphlets, etc.

Help ｜ Terms of Use

The video streaming service of the U.S. newsreel “The March of Time” (produced by Time Inc.). It contains more than 400 newsreels from 1935 until 1967. “The March of Time” is one of the most spotlighted as the beginning of 20th century’ newsreel, TV series. It started to be broadcast as the U.S. CBS Radio’s radio series, was shown as newsreel from 1935 to 1951 and had been broadcast as TV series until 1967.

library collection (in print)

This database provides “MARR” which is the only monthly journal specialized in M&A in Japan. It is made up of “articles” and “statistics and data”. Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.

search guide (in Japanese)｜ user guide (in Japanese) ｜ subscribed titles (in Japanese)

This is the platform of ebook specialized in academic information provided by Maruzen. 【Off-campus remote access】Maruzen ebook Library’s account registration is required. If you forget your password, once delete your account and register again.【How to delete your account】①From on campus terminal, access Maruzen eBook Library and click the “accountアカウント” button.②Type in recognition ID and your name and then click “agree with the terms of use and next　利用規約に同意して次へ”③Click “No いいえ”on the screen opened.

user guide (in Japanese)

This is the comprehensive bibliographic and review database provided by American Mathematical Society. It covers world math materials. It comprehensively covers materials from 1940, users can search in various ways.

Help ｜ Privacy policy and legal notice

The online version of a prestigious reference related to international law written by more than 800 researchers or lawyers. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law took a leading role in the compilation.

HELP (in Japanese) ｜ user guide (in Japanese)

Users can search documents in medicine related fields (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing science, medical technology, nutrition, hygiene, health education, etc.) carried in journa published by Japanese academic associations and publishers. Library staffs do search and print the documents. Please ask Niiza library 1F counter or Ikebukuro library B1F counter.

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This database contains original manuscripts of both actual trips and imaginary trips in the 13-16th centuries. You can see medieval manuscripts owned by libraries in European countries, well-known travelers’ (such as Marco Polo and Prester John) detailed documents and travelers’ route maps.
【Contracted collections】
The Grand Tour : Diaries, letters, logbooks, sketches, maps, etc. from the latter half of the 16th century until the first half of the 19th century.
The Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History : Diaries, travel records, letters, etc. by the 19-20th centuries’ women.

HELP

This is a Meiji Japan digital archive collection. It contains Edward S. Morse’s letters, diaries, notes, materials related to natural history, archaeology, folklore of Japan and China, lecture materials, journals and books. He recorded Japanese lives before the western modernization teaching science at present Tokyo University and acted as mediator between Japan and the West.

Help & Support ｜ Videos & Tutorials ｜  Terms of Use

Create an individual account and use. Users can save and read the documents online, but when they quote the saved documents to write articles, they need to download a desktop version and a quotes plugin. They can increase the save capacity (pay).

Help ｜ user guide (in Japanese)

This is the company and financial information database of 16500 American companies and 27500 overseas companies (including Japanese listed companies). Users can read EDGAR documents and annual reports of American Exchange.

EBSCOhost Search Guide (in Japanese) ｜ MLA International Bibliography Search Guide (in Japanse)

This is the secondary information database on linguistics, literature and folklore produced by Modern Language Association. Besides more than 4400 journals, it contains information about books, theses, etc. “PMLA: Publications of Modern Language Association of America” contains from 1880’s. If users find the link “Find this article in full text from JSTOR”, they can read articles in full text from JSTOR.

User’s Guide (in Japanese)

This is the official journal database of  “National Geographic Society” (nonprofit organization)  which was established for the purpose of the spread of geography. It is well-known that though it was an academic journal, many pictures and photos were used and especially color photos were carried earlier than any journals.

The scientific information portal site provided by Nature Publishing Group. Nature Publishing Group publishes UK academic journals “Nature”. It contains a lot of current topics and interdisciplinary information.

user guide

This service provides a huge number of recordings focused on classics. 777 labels (Chandos, BIS, Hungaroton, Profil, Hanssler, Marco Polo, Vanguard, VOX, CPO, Alpha, Wergo, etc.) are taking part in. Users need Windows Media Player to playback.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ guide to retrieve STOCK data (in Japanese) ｜ guide to retrieve FINFST data (in Japanese)

Users can search data needed for microeconomic analyses such as company finance, stocks, bonds, futures, options, etc… contained in NEEDS (a comprehensive economic data bank of Nikkei Inc.). A special application is automatically installed for the first time. Please access from Internet Explorer.

subscribed titles

This is an ebook collection of about 1500 major Japanese and European publishers. They publish reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, etc.), specialized books on each field, business books, general books, mainly academic books and specialized books. Besides contracted titles, users can use more than 3500 copyright free Western books.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ terms of company membership (in Japanese)

・Waka & haikai library Shinpen kokka taikan (Kadokawa Corporation)
・Shinpen shika shutaisei (Koten library, Ltd.)
・Kasho shusei (Koten library, Ltd.)
・Koten haibungaku taikei (SHUEISHA Inc.)
・Jiten library “Waka bungaku daijiten” (Koten library, Ltd. New edition)
・”Utakotoba utamakura daijiten” (Kadokawa Corporation)

user guide (in Japanese)

It contains article data of about 30 magazines such as “Nikkei Business”, “Nikkei Architecture”, etc. published by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. If the number of reading reaches the limit, users cannot read until the end of the year.

online user guide (in Japanese) ｜ video tutorials (in Japanese) ｜ readers’ guide of Nikkei Shimbun (in Japanese)

Users can cross search 4 Nikkei newspapers (The Nikkei, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun, Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun), company information and personnel information. This is the representative business database of Japan.

user guide (in Japanese)

Users can search a wide range of first historical materials in the 19th century. Contents are so many : books, monographs, newspapers, magazines, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photos, pamphlets, maps, statistics (mainly in English, but including non-European languages) Rikkyo University has contract for Archive 1-8.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ YouTube video (in Japanese) ｜ Terms and Conditions

This database contains reports printed by OECD, International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and International Transport Forum (ITF). Users can use OECD publications (books, journals, annual reports, Outlook, working papers) and “International Trade by Commodity Statistics Database (ITCS)”.

This is the online version of “Mita Bungaku”. It contains 397 books from May, 1910 until Oct./Nov. 1944.

user guide (in Japanese)

This learning/studying database contains materials as arguing and considering information from various positions about modern society’s various points of arguments. It contains arguments by specialists, reference materials which explains backgrounds of problems, related first materials and images, latest full-text journal articles, etc. Users can search and read by each theme.
Modern society’s various points of arguments:
juvenile crime, abortion, the abolition of capital punishment, cloning technology, animal testing, doping, gun control, privacy, sex education, biological weapons, terrorism, war crime.

Tour of the online edition ｜ Printable help texts and guides ｜ guide to using the online edition｜ Privacy Policy and Legal Notice

This is the online version of “Oxford Dictionary of National Biography”. It widely covers persons related to British history from the 4th century B.C. until the present. It also contains more than 10000 people’s portraits and photos.

Help ｜ Privacy policy and legal notice

“Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition)” is the world’s biggest and the most eminent dictionary. It’s total 20 volumes. This is the online version of “Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition)”.

Guided Tour ｜ Privacy policy and legal notice

Oxford Handbooks make users grasp each field’s assignment and future direction. Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) is the online version of Oxford Handbooks. Rikkyo University has contract for 29 titles in Economic and Finance.

user guide ｜ Legal Notice

OXFORD JOURNALS (Full Collection): This is the online journal package of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS’ about 240 journals of all the fields. Users can read the full texts from 1996 until the latest issue. → Title lists (eResources A-Z)
Oxford Journals Archive Online Full Collection : This is the online journal collection until 1995. Users can use this on OXFORD JOURNALS SITE with the above package. ※Users can use the online journal repository “NII-REO”‘s archive → NII-REO

user guide ｜ Legal Notice

OXFORD JOURNALS (Full Collection): This is the online journal package of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS’ about 240 journals of all the fields. Users can read the full texts from 1996 until the latest issue. → Title lists (eResources A-Z)
Oxford Journals Archive Online Full Collection : This is the online journal collection until 1995. Users can use this on OXFORD JOURNALS SITE with the above package. ※Users can use the online journal repository “NII-REO”‘s archive → NII-REO

Guided Tour ｜ Privacy policy and legal notice

This is the precedent database which contains international judgments by international tribunals, national courts and special tribunals. Rikkyo University has contract for International Law in Domestic Courts.

user guide (in Japanese)｜ terms of use (in Japanese)

This is the magazine article index database of Oya Soichi Library (specialized in magazines). Oya Soichi library is well-known for rich contents and a unique angle.

Users can search 1,600,000 article indexes taken by about 300 magazines (weekly magazines, general magazines, women’s magazines, etc after 1988) all at once.

*List of magazine collection (in Japanese)

Brochure: Historical Collections ｜ Journal List is on this page ｜ ProQuest LibGuides, Periodicals Archive Online

This service provides important journal articles of humanities and social science from the first issue until 2000 by image data.

Quick　Start Guide

This database contains more than 2000 newspapers issued in 100 countries. Users can see not only the pages of newspapers themselves but also advertisements. Users can see the past articles at most 90 days before. (It depends on titles).

User guide(in Japanese)

This online database contains about 8000 prefectural statistics (about 900,000 images, about 1500000 statistical tables) included in total 1460 reels (from Yushodo Shoten, 1964～1979, microfilm version, “Meiji nenkan fuken toukeisho shusei”, “Taisho nenkan fuken toukeisho shusei”, “Todoufuken toukeisho shusei sengo hen”).
Target year: The first year of the Meiji era (1868)～1972
Rikkyo University has contract for:
・Showa（Sengo) Kanto Module no. M2
・Showa(Senzen) Kanto Module no. M8
・Taisho Kanto Module no. M14

Quick Reference Guide (in Japanese)

・American Periodicals Series
・ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
・Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
・New York Times “The New York Times Book Review”(1986 -) and “New York Times Magazine”(1986 -)
※”The New York Times”(1851-2008) is available on ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
・Periodicals Archive Online
・ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
・ProQuest Historical Newspapers（The New York Times(1851-2008)）
・Social Services Abstracts
・Sociological Abstract.
more info

Quick Refefrence Guide (in Japanese) ｜ ProQuest LibGuides, Dissertations & Thesis Global

It provides dissertations & theses of more than 1000 universities worldwide mainly in North America. About North America, it contains from 1861, the first dissertation accepted. Users can read the full texts after 1997.

Quick Reference Guide (in Japanese) ｜ ProQuest LibGuides, Historical Newspapers

Users can use “The New York Times” (1851-2008). The full texts are provided with clipping pages (PDF).

Quick Reference Guide (in Japanese) ｜ ProQuest LibGuides, History Vault ｜ Terms and Conditions

It is the digitized collection of American foreign policy materials at the time of Vietnam War. Mainly owned documents related to government and military affairs. (White house documents owned by NARA (National Archives and Records Administration), NSC (National Security Council) documents, Federal Records Centers, Kennedy presidential library, Johnson presidential library…) What did American foreign policy, world strategy, international relationships and Vietnam War bring to America? Users can use this as basic materials for thinking the whole diplomacy situations of America and the world.

EBSCOhost search guide (in Japanese) ｜ PsycARTICLES search guide (in Japanese) ｜ coverage list

(Ikebukuro campus users have to specify the material and can request on campus material copy). This is the database in the field of psychology produced by American Psychological Association (APA). Users can read the full texts of 77 journals published by APA or related institutions. It contains the first issue (1984) of “Psychological Review” which is important for the psychological research. Users can get off campus ID/PW at Niiza library counter (Niiza campus users only).

EBSCOhost search guide (in Japanese) ｜ PsycINFO search guide (in Japanese)

This is the secondary information database in the field of psychology produced by American Psychological Association (APA). Besides journals, it contains materials such as books, theses, technical reports and so on. It also contains international periodicals published in more than 45 countries. Users can get off campus ID/PW at Niiza library counter (Niiza campus students only).

PubMed Quick Start Guide ｜ Online Training

This is the secondary information database of articles in the field of medicine and biology provided by National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine. Users can read the full texts partly.

Bootcamp ｜ Terms of Use

Create personal accounts and use. There are a web version (users can save the documents) and a desktop version (users can edit or quote, download and use). Strengthened Readcube Web Reader is adopted as an official journal article reader of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Wiley. Users don’t need a personal account if they read only with ReadCube Web Reader.

Terms of Use ｜ Content List

The online version of “Reader’s guide to periodical literature” published by H.W. Wilson. It is article index database of more than 400 general magazines published in the U.S. and Canada after 1983. It contains the full texts about some magazines after 1994.

introduction (LibGuides)

Using this tool, users can do…
・To save collected information online (online database, online journal, OPAC)  on their own platforms.
・To create article’s reference list.
・To share information.
Users need to create a personal account.
*How to import from each database (in Japanese)
*For MS Word2016 for Mac users (about Write-N-Cite)　→　Japanese ver. / English ver.

user guide (in Japanese)

This is the online version of “Rikanenpyo” (Chronological Scientific Tables, launched in 1925), data books which cover all the fields of science compiled by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is made up of Koyomi Section, Tenmon Section, Kisho Section, Butsuri/Kagaku Section, Chigaku Section, Seibutsu Section and Kankyo Section.

FAQ

This is the database of research/educational achievements by Rikkyo University.

The online platform which contains electronic books of Routledge. Users can browse the full text (PDF file) concerning the titles Rikkyo University has contract for.

HELP is on the page after logging in. | Terms of Use

This is the online journal package of “SAGE premier 2010” collection (all the fields about 560 journals). Users can read the full text from 1999 until the latest issue.

Terms of use is on the page after logging in.

■Tokyo headquarter morning paper, the evening final edition : from September 7, 1992 – ※Tokyo headquarter the evening edition was ceased on March 30, 2002.
■Osaka headquarter morning paper, the evening final edition : from December 15, 1998 –

This is the online platform which contains electronic books published by ELSEVIER. Users can read the full text (PDF file) concerning the titles Rikkyo University bought.

Quick Reference Guide

• Business, Management and Accounting：About 70 titles→Title list，Supplement
• Mathematics：More than 60 titles→Title list，Supplement

Though title lists ended in 1994, users can read the title after 1995 under online subscription.

About Pay Per View ｜ manual for registration ｜ FAQ

Pay Per View :
About approx. 3000 online articles provided by ELSEVIER, users can see the article (PDF file) until reaching the contracted number. Please check the abstract in advance and use the article needed as many users can use this service. If this service ends because of reaching the contracted number, we’ll let users know by e-mail, etc.
Intended Users: Full-time staffs, graduates, undergraduates  If user’s student number changes, you have to reregister your new student number and e-mail address.

manual of registration ｜ online tutorial (in Japanese)

This is the chemical information database provided by American Chemical Society.
CAplus (literature information) 1808～
REGISTRY (chemical substance information) 1907～
CASREACT (organic reaction information) 1840～
CHEMCATS (commercial chemicals catalog information) 1995～
CHEMLIST (chemical substance regulation information) 1979～
※Users need user registration. ID unused for two years automatically stops. To make ID effective again, please refer to the user registration procedure.

terms of use (in Japanese)

This is the technology information portal site provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). It contains introductions of recommended databases, information of government statistics and white papers, domestic and international trends, etc.

EBSCOhost Search Guide (in Japanese) ｜ SocINDEX with Full Text Search Guide (in Japanese)

This database covers the overall sociology and it contains more than 20,000 words sociology thesauruses. It contains indexes and extracts of more than 4700 journals, and the full texts of more than 870 out of 4,700. Besides journals, it contains information about books and monographs.

ProQuest quick reference guide (in Japanese)

It contains book information in the field of sociology and behavioral sciences from 1952. Besides more than 1800 journals, it contains theses, minutes, etc.

This is the online version of Song Yuan Print Collection from The Seikado Bunko.

Rikkyo university has contract for as follows:

• 44 宋版　史部　東都事略　～　追補254　宋版　史部　圖經、追補253　宋版　史部　 致堂先生讀史管見
• 223 元版　集部　箋註陶淵明集　～　230 元版　集部　晦庵先生朱文公文集

This is the database provided by UZABASE, Inc. and users can search information needed for analyses of companies and industries. It contains data of all the domestic listed companies, domestic unlisted companies and overseas major listed companies. Users can convert the trends of industries and numerical information into MsWord, Excel or PDF files and download.

quick user guide ｜ Terms and Conditions

Users can read the full texts of online journals (in all the fields, about 2000) on Springer Link (Collections in all the fields).

quick user guide (in Japanese) ｜ Terms and Conditions

This is the online journal collection (until 1996) published by Springer. Users can read the full texts of online journals (in all the fields, about 2000) on Springer Link (Collections in all the fields).

user guide (in Japanese)

“Taiwan nichinichi shimpo” is representative Japanese newspaper published in Taiwan under Japan. This database contains from 1898 (launched) until 1944 (ceased).

contents ｜ user guide (in Japanese)

It contains domestic biggest general legal information database “LEX/DB Internet”, which focuses on “precedents” ” law” “precedent comments”, and legal information provided by legal publishing houses.

値１：○○○○○ ｜ 値２：○○○○○ ｜ 値３：○○○○○ ｜ 値４：○○○○○ ｜ 値５：○○○○○ ｜ 値６：○○○○○ ｜ 値７：○○○○○　｜ 値８：○○○○○

This service is intended for the members of Law School. Please ask the Ikebukuro library about ID/PW.

Hein Online user guide [MS Word] (in Japanese) ｜ Taxation & Economic Reform in America ｜ Quick Reference Guide ｜ Help & Support

It contains more than 900 volumes of materials about U.S. tax reform & economic policy and materials about the details of the legislation. Please ask the library counter about ID/PW.

flier (in Japanese) ｜ Terms and Conditions

This is the online version of the theological encyclopedia “Theologische Realenzyklopadie” (total 36 volumes).

terms and conditions｜ NewsVault user guide (in Japanese)

This is the archive of “London Times” (from the first issue until 1985), which is a pioneer of international communications network.

HELP

This collection contains materials such as travel records and Life Writing (personal records such as autobiography, diaries, letters, reminiscences, etc.) and summaries (prosperity of modern tourism and the tourist industry).

Medieval Travel Writing : Manuscripts of travel writings from the 13th century until the 16th century

The Grand Tour : Diaries, letters, log books, sketches, maps, etc. from the latter half of the 16th century until the first half of the 19th century

user guide (in Japanese)

This is a digitized collection of Japanese oldest economic journal “Toyo Keizai Shimpo (Current “Shukan Toyo Keizai”).

Contracted collection: The first term (The first issue <Nov. 1894>～Dec. 1945)

【Off-campus remote access】Maruzen ebook Library’s account registration is required. If you forget your password, once delete your account and register again.【How to delete your account】①From on campus terminal, access Maruzen eBook Library and click the “accountアカウント” button.②Type in recognition ID and your name and then click “agree with the terms of use and next　利用規約に同意して次へ”③Click “No いいえ”on the screen opened.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ contents(in Japanese)

This is the database of journals published by TOYO KEIZAI INC. (“Shukan Toyo Keizai”, “Kaisha Shikihou”, “Shushoku Shikihou”, etc.) and company information.

HELP (in Japanese) ｜ terms of use (in Japanese)

This is the web version of the area database “Minryoku” (after 1989) issued by the Asahi Shimbun Company. It contains basic resident registers, the Censuses of Manufactures, the Censuses of Commerce, Municipality financial situation surveys, Minryoku composite indexes, etc.

content (in Japanese) ｜ terms of use and Link (in Japanese)

This database has a function to search books related to the specific theme by association retrieval. Users can search by index/outline information or characters.

Users can search “Shukan Diamond” from the first issue (1913) until the present (three months after the release of the journal).

HELP is on the page after logging in. ｜ Supplier terms

This database covers precedents, laws, materials relating to administration, law journals, legal encyclopedias, lawyer yearbooks, news and business information worldwide. Users can rapidly and easily do advanced legal researches with precedents and laws worldwide quickly added every day using Westlaw’s cutting-edge search functions. It contains U.S. law related materials, the U.S. statutory books, administrative rules, law related journals, dockets, English law related materials, news, company information, etc.

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ quick guide (in Japanese)

Users can cross search “Jinbutsu Jouhou Database (WHO)”, “Jinbutsu Reference Jiten”, “Jiten Kindai Nihon no Senkusha”, “Chosho・Chosha Jouhou”, “Nichigai Sentei Koushiki URL Shu”, etc. provided by Nichigai Associates, Inc. It is linked to literature database. To reach the maximum number of browsing detailed information, this service may be stopped until the end of the year.

HELP is on the page after logging in.｜ Terms & Conditions

This is the online reference, which is very useful for literary researches. Users can search and read the Encyclopedia of Twentieth – Century Fiction, the Encyclopedia of the Novel and the Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory all at once. It contains more than 900 articles (300-7000 words) written by specialists. There is a mutual reference function in the article and the end of the article. Besides the ordinary Advanced Search functions, users can search related articles by themes, fields, characters periods.

quick guide (in Japanese) ｜ user guide (in Japanese)

Journal full collection : This is the online journal package of journals in all the fields published by Wiley-Blackwell. Users can read the full texts from 1997 until the latest issue. → Title lists (EBSCO A-to-Z)

Overview ｜ terms of use

This is the database which contains book information of Western books, contents information of Western journals and indexes of articles. ※Please also use a free site “WorldCat“.

user guide (in Japanese)

This is the database about Latin American culture and society from the 15th century until today. Besides the first materials and the secondary materials, it provides the latest newspaper・magazine text, videos and multimedia materials.

terms of use (in Japanese)

Yomiuri Shimbun (the Heisei era) : From September 1986 until the latest issue. From December 2008, users can see the clipping images (not all).

Yomiuri Shimbun (the Meiji, the Taisho and the Showa era) : From 1874 (the first issue) until 1989.

The Japan News (The Daily Yomiuri until March 2013) : From 1989. From August 2011, there is a link between English articles and Japanese articles.

Who’s Who today : Personal data of about 26,000 key persons in Japan and in overseas (including the deceased).

Application form and Terms and conditions

Yuhikaku YDC 1000 is the e-book reference service and users can read legal classics via the Internet using it. It mainly contains Yuhikaku’s classics because they may be referred to many times for researches and writings. ※Browser : Internet Explorer only

Quick Start Guide ｜ Getting Help and Troubleshooting ｜ terms of service ｜ Screencast Tutorials

This is the document management tool operating as Mozilla Firefox’s extended functions (add-on). There is a stand alone version which doesn’t depend on Firefox. Users can increase the saving capacity (pay).