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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)

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

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

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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.

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.

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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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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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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.

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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
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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.

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.

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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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.

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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 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

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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.