MultiDatabases

Databases by Title (A-Z)

Trial: 2024/9～2025/3
Predatory Reports（Cabells）
Predatory Reports is a database that allows users to search for information on predatory journals. It includes basic information (title, ISSN, field, website, etc.) on over 17,000 suspicious journals, selected and analyzed by journal evaluation specialists based on more than 70 criteria, including peer review, publication, metrics, and fees. Additionally, it lists the violations discovered through the analysis.

*Note: ‘Journalytics’ (a database of reliable journal information) is not available.

This database should be used as a supplementary tool, and decisions on submissions should be made in consultation with faculty members. For more information on predatory journals, please refer to the Writing Center.
General Fields
Working papers
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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Maruzen e-Book Library (MARUZEN-YUSHODO)
This is a platform that provides e-books (electronic books) specializing in academic books for institutional users such as universities. 
You can read the full text of over 4,000 electronic books via Hiroshima University.

The user guide is available here. Please also refer to the video version of the user guide.
Single sign-on is required when logging in from outside the school.

By following the prescribed procedures, you can also download electronic books. However, the following acts are strictly prohibited:
  1. Downloading more than the maximum number of pages displayed on the 'Print/Save' screen per person per title.
  2. Using the downloaded file for purposes other than the research and study purposes of the person who downloaded it.
  3. Sharing, transferring, circulating, or redistributing the downloaded file within a laboratory, company, group, etc., or to a third party.
  4. Jointly downloading more than the maximum number of pages of one title by multiple people.
    (For example, it is prohibited to borrow someone else's email address and download more than the limit.)
  5. Reproducing or modifying on other media without the permission of the copyright holder.
  6. Regardless of the reason or purpose, circumventing the technical protection measures or technical restrictions used in this service or electronic books, such as removing, changing, disabling, etc.
  7. Performing interlibrary loans or document copying services (so-called interlibrary loans, etc.) for other institutions.
  8. Anything else that is prohibited in the terms of use.
In addition, authentication using an email address is required when executing a download and when viewing a downloaded file.

If unauthorized use in violation of the above has been confirmed, restrictions will be implemented for the entire university.

NOTICE: The available titles can also be searched in the Hiroshima University Library OPAC.
General Fields
Books
Off-Campus access: Single sign-on
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Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This is a database constructed by the National Institute of Japanese Literature, which allows users to search and use at once bibliographic information and high-resolution images of Japanese manuscripts and prints before Edo period, held by NIJL and many other institutions and owners at home and overseas. It is open to the public free of charge and can be used by anyone.

This database is a developmental integration of the 'Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books', a comprehensive catalogue of Japanese classical books, and the 'Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works', established through the 'Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts (NIJL-NW project)'.
History
Languages
Literature
Books
Open access
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Yomidas (Yomiuri Shinbun Co.)
Some articles on this website are available only in Japanese. If necessary, please use the browser’s translation function.

This database enables you to search articles in the paper by "Yomiuri Shinbun" since 1874.

The archive has several sections.
Articles from 1874 to 1989 are contained as high-quality scans of the pages, as they originally appeared. Articles after 1986 onward are contained in a convenient text view, as well as a clipping view of the original article. The Japan News catalogs articles that appeared in our English publication. Contemporary Who’s Who offers the ability to search for individuals to retrieve their biographical data as well as pertinent articles. And finally, regional articles and pages from the period of 1933 to 2001 can be found as page images in the optional Regional Sections (Showa Era) feature.

*Simultaneous access limit: up to 1
Walk-in User not available
General Fields
Newspaper articles
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search　(Asahi Shimbun Co.)
Some articles on this website are available only in Japanese. If necessary, please use the browser’s automatic translation function.

This database enables you to search over 15 millions of articles in the paper by "Asahi Shinbun" since 1879.

【Including Contents】
・"Asahi Shimbun(1985-)" "Weekly Asahi(2000-)" "AERA(1988-)" Articles
Headings and full text for articles included of the Asahi Shimbun are stored as text data.
・"Asahi Shimbun" Digitized Archive 1879-1999　Keyword Search
In the Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition, it is possible to search on articles from 4 eras: [Meiji/Taisho], [Showa (Pre-World War II)], [Showa Post-World War II], [Heisei].
・"Chiezo" Keyword Database
A modern dictionary which introduces both basic key terms and the newest terminology that seriously affects our world.
・Who's Who Database
Information such as biographical data and contact information of influential people from all fields is covered, including economists, politicians, researchers, cultural figures and athletes.
・Historical Photo Archive
More than 10,000 photographs are archived, the majority ranging from before and after the Manchurian Incident to after the defeat in war.
・"Asahigraph" 1923～1956
Asahi Graph, a pictorial magazine established in 1923. Kikuzo II Visual brings to the users a digital archive of images in color that appeared in approximately 2,000 issues up until 1956.
・English-language News Database
The Asahi Shimbun Company has just created a database of its English-language newspapers.
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*Simultaneous access limit: up to 2
Walk-in User not available
General Fields
History
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Newspaper articles
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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