General

user guide (in Japanese)

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.)

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.

user guide ｜ terms of use

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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
[more info]

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.

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.

About JAIRO ｜ user guide

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

Access Rules

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

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”.

user guide (in Japanese)

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.

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).

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

Quick Reference Guide (in Japanese)  ｜ Help & Support ｜ Videos & Tutorials ｜  Terms of Use

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).

user guide

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.

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.

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

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)

Quick　Start Guide

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).

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]

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.

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.
*Use of Internet Explorer is not supported after July 1, 2021. Please use the following supported browsers.
Google Chrome　*Recommendation
Firefox　*Recommendation
Safari
Microsoft Edge

ProQuest LibGuides ｜ Creating a RefWorks Account by ExLibris｜  Using Library and citation resources in the BBL｜  ｜

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.
*Use of Internet Explorer is not supported after July 1, 2021. Please use the following supported browsers.
Google Chrome　*Recommendation
Firefox　*Recommendation
Safari
Microsoft Edge

FAQ

Database of research/educational achievements by Rikkyo University.

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 –

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.

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.

quick user guide ｜ Terms and Conditions

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.

quick user guide (in Japanese) ｜ Terms and Conditions

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.

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.

user guide (in Japanese)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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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■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).

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).