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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)

The portal site provided by National Institute of Informatics. It enables you to cross search the databases of literature information of each academic discipline and ancient documents provided by National Institute of Informatics(NII).

User Guide(in Japanese) ／ Title Lists

Academic Search Complete 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 indexes and abstracts 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

ACS Journals searches about 40 online journals published by American Chemical Society (ACS).

Tutorials ／ Contents List

American History 1493-1945 (Module II) contains materials from the presidential election in 1860 (Lincoln was elected), the Civil War, until the end of World War Ⅱ. It provides not only important documents, personal diaries and letters but visual materials such as maps , sketch books and photos about the below topics. Full color and full text are avilable.
– 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)

Database 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 contact the library counter for ID/PW.

online user guide ｜ help ｜ Research Packs

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)

American Periodicals Series contains the periodicals such as 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

APS Journals provides the full text of  ” Physical Review A, B, C, D, E” and ” Physical Review Letters” offered by American Physical Society.

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This database provides the full text 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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Database of 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.

Artemis Primary Sources searches multiple source 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)

Database of 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)

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, the full text  search and the download of the chief economic indicators by country and year are available.

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)

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

user guide (MS PowerPoint)

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).

The online version of ” Book Review Digest” published by H.W. Wilson. This database searches 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)

bookplus is one of the biggest book database in Japan provided by NICHIGAI ASSOCIATES, INC. It provides not only book titles, authors and publishers but table of contents, summaries, and story lines.

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Business Archives Online provides 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 1945-1954 and security reports of about 2400 companies in 1961 – 1985.

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

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

user guide (in Japanese) ｜ subscribed title list

The e-book collection of Cambridge University Press. This database covers all the fields of human science, social science, natural science and medicine and searches all the titles by full-text, key words and contents. The titles Rikkyo University purchased can be viewed in full text as PDF files.

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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.

Rikkyo University has contracred for:
– 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)

CapitalIQ 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 contact the library counter for ID/PW.

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

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

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The Dong-a Ilbo , Korea Joongang Daily and The Chosun Ilbo are the top three big newspapers in Korea. This database seraches from the first issue till the latest issue of The Chosun Ilbo. The articles after 1990 can be searched in full text.

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The newspaper article database of “Chunichi Shimbun” and “Tokyo Shimbun”.
■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
■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

Chuokeizai Database Library contains 4 online journals (“企業会計(Kigyou Kaikei)”, “税務弘報(Zeimu Kouhou)”, “経理情報(Keiri Jouhou)” and “ビジネス法務(Business Houmu)”), 会計全書(Kaikei Zensho) online and 会計学(Kaikeigaku) library. This database searches 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

The full-text database of periodicals published by Church Missionary Society in 1804-2009.
The below sections are available:
– 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:
Database of academic article information such as academic society journals, university research bulletins and the National Diet Library’s Japanese periodicals indexes.
■CiNii Books:
CiNii Books provides information of books and journals owned by university libraries all over Japan.
■CiNii Dissertations:
CiNii Dissertations provides dissertations written at Japanese universities. The dissertations opened to the National Diet Library’s digital collection or university repositories can be viewed in 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

■判例体系 (Hanrei Taikei) : Database of Japan code published after the Meiji era, which were reviewed, classified and sorted.
■現行法規 (Genkou Houki) : Japanese current laws and regulations were compiled in this legal database.
■法律判例文献情報 (Houritsu Hanrei Bunken Jouhou) : Database of 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)

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 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

Dispute Settlement Commentary is a comprehensive online information source about international trade laws and focuses on laws of WTO. 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. All the materials can be searched and viewed in full text. 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. The articles after 1990 can be searched by full-text. This database is also available 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   It provides not only the titles contracted by Rikkyo University but the main body of copyright free titles.

ebrary is the e-book collection contains e-book published by about 500 publishers worldwide. E-books can be founded from one platform. It provides books of highly reliable publishers worldwide and covers various fields.

EBSCOhost Search Guide (in Japanese)

The below databases are available.
– 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
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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. All the pages by images can be viewed.
*March 2016 ECCOⅡ additionally contracted (a search screen is the same).

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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 database 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 of Edward Elgar’s more than 2500 titles of electronic books, journals and references (including monographs, handbooks and companions). The titles contracted by Rikkyo University can be viewed in full text as P DF files.

Help ｜ Terms of use

Empire Online 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.

Database of Japanese listed companies’ financial statements, financial data and earnings briefings. Rikkyo University doesn’t have contract for earnings briefings flash and financial analysis information. For access to 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)

Factiva.com provides a wide range of business information such as major newspapers, news, company information, market information worldwide including Japan. It also contains 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

Financial Times Historical Archive provides “Financial Times” from the first issue (1888) until 2010 with original page images. This database enables you to search by full text, refine their search by the article column, the issue date, etc. and view every issue.

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

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– 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
[more info]

Gale NewsVault User’s Guide 1 (in Japanese) ｜Gale NewsVault User’s Guide 2 (in Japanese)

The e-book type reference tool provided by Gale Group. This database enables you to cross search all the titles which Rikkyo University has contract for. Please search  e-resources A-Z for the latest contracted titles.

help ｜ Terms of Service

Google Scholar searches 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

Database of 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.
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.

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Database of all the transcripts of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law. This database 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 contact the library counter for ID/PW.
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user guide (in Japanese) ｜ explanatory note (in Japanese)

Database of 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.
Rikkyo University Library has contracted for:
– 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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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers searches Parliamentary materials as important materials studying U.K. and neighboring countries.
Rikkyo University has contract for two databases written below.
(1)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).
(2)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)

IBFD Online 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)

Database of domestic medical articles produced by Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS). This database enables you to search periodicals of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and related fields and about 5000 journals’ article information published in Japan. Please conrtact the library counter for 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 contact the library counter for ID/PW.

The online version of “International Affairs”, monthly journals published by The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). The documents obtained permission by copyright owners can be viewed in full text.
– International affairs important chronologies (from 1945 until two months before)
– International affairs important documents (1990-）, etc.

The online version of “International African Bibliography”.

This portal site provides 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

JAIRO enables you to cross search academic information stored in the domestic academic institutions’ repositories.

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

Database of dictionaries and encyclopedias. This database searches about 50 contents such as 大日本百科事典,ニッポニカ(Dai Nihon Hyakka Jiten,Nipponica), English-Japanese dictionaries, Japanese-English dictionaries, English-English dictionaries, etc. It also contains web based 日本近代文学館(Nihon Kindai Bungaku Kan).

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J-STAGE searches publications of academic associations provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

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

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.

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Database of 河北新報(Kahoku Shimpo) articles after August 1991. It covers Tohoku area information and international & domestic news.

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Kanpou Information Search Service 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)

KIKUZOU II Visual contains The Asahi Shimbun (after 1985）, reduced-size editions (Meiji-Showa:1879-1989), AERA(The first issue-) and Shukan Asahi ( after APRIL 2004). It also contains”Chiezo”, “Jinbutsu database” and “Asahi Shimbun Rekishi Shashin Archive”.

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KISS 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. 1000 periodicals can be viewed. 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.

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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.

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Database of “国史大辞典(Kokushi Daijiten)” (Total 15 volumes, total 17 books), the biggest Japanese historical encyclopedia published by “吉川弘文館(Yoshikawa kobunkan) in between 1979 and 1997. Besides about 54000 entry words of the book version, about 4000 crossheads can be searched.

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

KPM 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 are prohibited.

Quick Guide (in Japanese)

Kyobo Scolar 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.

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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 they are comparable to present provisions.

Guides are on lexis.com Support (in Japanese)

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

Guides are on LexisNexis Academic Support (in Japanese)

LexisNexis Academic contains a large variety of information such as general newspaper or magazine articles, business information, law information, medicine information, etc.
*Please use the English version for remote access.

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LexisNexis Juris Classeur 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.

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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. Access free articles, but except access free articles, can be viewed. (Readers’ numbers are required).

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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)

The following materials can be searched.
– 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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MathSciNet 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.

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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.

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Medical Online searches 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 contact Niiza library 1F counter or Ikebukuro library B1F counter for browsing and printing.

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Medieval Travel Writing searches original manuscripts of both actual trips and imaginary trips in the 13-16th centuries. This database provides 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:
(1)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.
(2)The Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History : Diaries, travel records, letters, etc. by the 19-20th centuries’ women.

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A Meiji Japan digital archive collection. This database 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.

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Create an individual account and use. Saving and reading the documents are available online, but Quoting the saved documents to write articles are need to download a desktop version and a quotes plugin for MS Word. Users can increase the save capacity (pay).

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Mergent Online is the company and financial information database of 16500 American companies and 27500 overseas companies (including Japanese listed companies). EDGAR documents and annual reports of American Exchange can be accessible.

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

MLA International Bibliography is the secondary information database on linguistics, literature and folklore produced by Modern Language Association. It contains not only more than 4400 journals but information of books, theses, etc. “PMLA: Publications of Modern Language Association of America” contains from 1880’s. When the link “Find this article in full text from JSTOR” is displayed , the articles can be viewed in full text by JSTOR.

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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.

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Naxos Music Library 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. Windows Media Player are required to playback.

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

NEEDS-Financial QUEST 2.0 Version searches data 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.

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NetLibrary 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. This database provides contracted titles and more than 3500 copyright free Western books.

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(1)”和歌&俳諧ライブラリー(Waka & haikai library), 新編国歌大観(Shinpen kokka taikan)” by “角川学芸出版(Kadokawa Corporation)”
(2)”新編私家集大成(Shinpen shika shutaisei)” by “古典ライブラリー(Koten library, Ltd.)”
(3)”歌書集成(Kasho shusei)” by “古典ライブラリー(Koten library, Ltd.)”
(4)”古典俳文学大系(Koten haibungaku taikei)” by “集英社 (SHUEISHA Inc.)”
(5)辞典ライブラリー(Jiten library) “和歌文学大辞典(Waka bungaku daijiten)” by “古典ライブラリー・新編集(Koten library, Ltd. New edition)”
(6)”歌ことば歌枕大辞典(Utakotoba utamakura daijiten)” by “角川学芸出版(Kadokawa Corporation)”

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Database of article data of about 30 magazines such as “Nikkei Business”, “Nikkei Architecture”, etc. published by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. When 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)

Nikkei Telecom 21 enables you to 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.

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NCCO searches a wide range of first historical materials in the 19th century. It contains various materials such as 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

OECD iLibrary contains reports printed by OECD, International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and International Transport Forum (ITF). It also provides OECD publications (books, journals, annual reports, Outlook, working papers) and “International Trade by Commodity Statistics Database (ITCS)”.

The online version of “三田文学(Mita Bungaku)”. It contains 397 books from May, 1910 until Oct./Nov. 1944.

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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

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The online version of “Oxford Dictionary of National Biography”. This database 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.

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

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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.

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■OXFORD JOURNALS (Full Collection):
The online journal package of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS’ about 240 journals of all the fields. The articles from 1996 until the latest issue can be viewed in full text. >> Title lists (eResources A-Z)
■Oxford Journals Archive Online Full Collection :
The online journal collection until 1995. This database can be accesible from OXFORD JOURNALS SITE with the above package. *It also available for the online journal repository “NII-REO”‘s archive → NII-REO

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■OXFORD JOURNALS (Full Collection):
The online journal package of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS’ about 240 journals of all the fields. The articles from 1996 until the latest issue can be viewed in full text. → Title lists (eResources A-Z)
■Oxford Journals Archive Online Full Collection :
The online journal collection until 1995. This database can be accessible from OXFORD JOURNALS SITE with the above package. *It is also available for the online journal repository “NII-REO”‘s archive → NII-REO

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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.

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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. This database searches 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

Periodicals Archive Online provides important journal articles of humanities and social science from the first issue until 2000 by image data.

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Press Reader contains more than 2000 newspapers issued in 100 countries. It contains not only the pages of newspapers themselves but also advertisements. The past articles at most 90 days before can be viewed (It depends on titles).

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Database of about 8000 prefectural statistics (about 900,000 images, about 1500000 statistical tables) included in total 1460 reels (from Yushodo Shoten, 1964-1979, microfilm version, “明治年間 府県統計書集成(Meiji nenkan fuken toukeisho shusei)”, “大正年間 府県統計書集成(Taisho nenkan fuken toukeisho shusei)”, “都道府県統計書集成 戦後編(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

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– 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

Database of dissertations & theses of more than 1000 universities worldwide mainly in North America. About North America, it contains from 1861, the first dissertation accepted. The dissertations after 1997 can be viewed in full text.

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

ProQuest Historical Newspapers contains “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
PsycARTICLES is the psychology database produced by American Psychological Association (APA). The 77 journals published by APA or related institutions are provided with full text. It contains the first issue (1984) of “Psychological Review” which is important for the psychological research.
*Niiza campus users only can get off campus ID/PW at Niiza library counter.

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

PsyINFO is the secondary information database in the field of psychology produced by American Psychological Association (APA). It contains not only journals but materials such as books, theses, technical reports and so on. It also contains international periodicals published in more than 45 countries.
*Niiza campus students only can get off campus ID/PW at Niiza library counter.

PubMed Quick Start Guide ｜ Online Training

PubMed 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. Some articles can be viewed in full text.

Bootcamp ｜ Terms of Use

Create personal accounts and use. There are a web version for saving the documents and a desktop version for editing or quoting, downloading and using. Strengthened Readcube Web Reader is adopted as an official journal article reader of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Wiley. For browsing only, a personal account are not required.

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

introduction (LibGuides)

Create a personal account and use.
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.
*How to import from each database (in Japanese)
*For MS Word2016 for Mac users (about Write-N-Cite)　→　Japanese ver. / English ver.

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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. This database is made up of Koyomi Section, Tenmon Section, Kisho Section, Butsuri/Kagaku Section, Chigaku Section, Seibutsu Section and Kankyo Section.

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Database of research/educational achievements by Rikkyo University.

The online platform of e-books of Routledge. The contracted titles can be viewed in full text as PDF files.

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The online journal package of “SAGE premier 2010” collection (all the fields about 560 journals). The articles from 1999 until the latest issue can be viewed in full text.

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■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 –

The online platform of ebooks published by ELSEVIER. The titles Rikkyo University purchased can be viewed in full text as PDF file.

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, the title after 1995 under online subscription can be browsed.

About Pay Per View ｜ manual for registration ｜ FAQ

*Pay Per View
About approx. 3000 online articles provided by ELSEVIER can be viewed as 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 your student number changes, you have to reregister your new student number and e-mail address.

manual of registration ｜ online tutorial (in Japanese)

SciFinder 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-
*User registration is needed. ID unused for two years automatically stops. To make ID effective again, please refer to the user registration procedure.

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SciencePortal 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)

SocINDEX with Full Text covers the overall sociology and has more than 20,000 words sociology thesauruses. This database searches indexes and abstracts of more than 4700 journals, and the full texts of more than 870 out of 4,700. It also contains information of books and monographs.

ProQuest quick reference guide (in Japanese)

Sociological Abstracts searches literature information in the field of sociology and behavioral sciences from 1952. It contains more than 1800 journals, theses, minutes, etc.

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

Database searching information for analyses of companies and industries and provided by UZABASE, Inc. It contains data of all Japanese listed/unlisted companies and overseas major listed companies. The trends of industries and numerical information can be downloaded as MS Word, Excel or PDF files.

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SpringerLink contains the full text of about 2000 online journals in all the fields. The journals published until 1996 can be searched by Springer Online Journal Archive.

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Springer Online Journal Archive is the online journal collections published by Springer until 1996. The journals from 1997 to current can be searched by SpringerLink.

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

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TKC Law Library provides one of the biggest general legal information database in Japan “LEX/DB Internet”, covering “precedents” ” law” “precedent commentary”. It also contains legal information by legal publishing houses.

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For the members of Law School. Please contact Ikebukuro library for ID/PW.

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

Taxation & Economic Reform In America contains more than 900 volumes of materials about U.S. tax reform & economic policy and materials about the details of the legislation. Please contact the library counter for ID/PW.

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

terms and conditions｜ NewsVault user guide (in Japanese)

The archive of “London Times” (from the first issue until 1985),  a pioneer of international communications network. The advertisements, charts and photos can also be viewed.

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This collection contains travel writings and materials of Life Writing (personal records such as autobiography, diaries, letters, reminiscences, etc.) and summaries about 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 late 16th century until the early 19th century

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The digitized collection of Japanese oldest economic journal “Toyo Keizai Shimpo (Current “Shukan Toyo Keizai”).
■Contracted collection: The first term (Nov. 1894, the first issue – 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:
(1)From on campus terminal, access Maruzen eBook Library and click the “アカウント(account)” button.
(2)Type in recognition ID and your name and then click “利用規約に同意して次へ(agree with the terms of use and next)”.
(3)Click “いいえ(No)”on the screen opened.

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Database of journals and company information published in “Shukan Toyo Keizai”, “Kaisha Shikihou”, “Shushoku Shikihou”, etc. by TOYO KEIZAI INC.

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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.

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Webcat Plus has a function to search books related to the specific theme by associative searching. It also searches by index/outline information or characters.

Weekly Diamond Archives Plus searches the articles of “Weekly Diamond” from the first issue (1913) until the present (only the articles over three months after the release).

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WestLaw Next covers precedents, laws, materials related to administration, law journals, legal encyclopedias, lawyer yearbooks, news and business information all around the world. This database enables you to 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. statute books, administrative rules, law related journals, dockets, English law related materials, news, company information, etc.

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whoplus enables you to 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 has links to literature database. To reach the maximum number of browsing detailed information, this service may be stopped until the end of the year.

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Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is very useful online reference for literary researches. Searches and browses the Encyclopedia of Twentieth – Century Fiction, the Encyclopedia of the Novel and the Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory all at once. This database contains more than 900 articles (300-7000 words) written by specialists. There is a cross-reference function in the article and the end of the article.It provides not only the ordinary Advanced Search functions but also the function searching related articles by themes, fields, characters periods.

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Journal full collection : The online journal package of journals in all the fields published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is available for browsing the full text from 1997 until the latest issue. → Title lists (e-resources A-to-Z)

Overview ｜ terms of use

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) contains information of Western books and indexes of articles of Western journals.
*Please also use a free site “WorldCat“.

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Database about Latin American culture and society from the 15th century until the present. It provides not only the primary sources and the secondary sources but also the latest newspaper & magazine texts and videos & multimedia materials.

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■The Heisei era(平成) : From September 1986 until the latest issue. The articles from December 2008 have the clipping images (not all).
■The Meiji, the Taisho and the Showa era(明治・大正・昭和) : From 1874 (the first issue) until 1989
■The Japan News (The Daily Yomiuri until March 2013) : From 1989.  The articles from August 2011 have links between English articles and Japanese articles.
■Who’s Who today : Personal data of about 26,000 key persons in Japan and overseas (including the deceased).

Application form and Terms and conditions

Yuhikaku YDC 1000 is the e-book database and enables you to browse legal classics via the Internet. It mainly contains Yuhikaku’s classics which 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

zotero 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).