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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.).

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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)

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.

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)

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.

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

user guide (MS PowerPoint)

A literature database of British and Irish history (B.C.55 – the present) made by the Royal Historical Society.

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) .

HELP ｜ Terms of Use

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

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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■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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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
[more info]

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.

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.

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).

Access Rules

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).
[more info]

user guide (in Japanese)

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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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.

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. 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.

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.

library collection (in print)

“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.

user guide (in Japanese)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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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■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

user guide ｜ Legal Notice

■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

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)

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.

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]

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.

Terms of Use ｜ Content List

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

contents ｜ user guide (in Japanese)

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.

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.

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).

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

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)