Databases by Title (A-Z)

Naxos Video Library
The world's leading performing arts distributor brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances - operas, ballets, concerts, dances, documentaries and many more.
Watch fine productions from the world's greatest opera houses, ballet and dance companies, orchestras, artists, festivals and concert halls on demand.

*Simultaneous access limit: up to 5
Music
Videos
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history
General Fields
History
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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NDL Digitial Collections (National Diet Library)
This is a service that allows you to search and view digital materials collected and stored at the National Diet Library. 

◆By registering as a user of the National Diet Library, you can view and print (print out) digital materials that are difficult to obtain due to being out of print.

For some contents, it is necessary to use the "Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries". Please refer to here for this service.

※1 Registration (free) is necessary to use the National Diet Library.
※2 The number of digitized materials that can be viewed is the same as the service for individuals.
General Fields
Books
Documents
Journal articles
Open access
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CiNii Dissertations (National Institute of Informatics)
CiNii Dissertations is a database that includes domestic doctoral dissertations. The table of contents, abstract, and full text are not included, but there are links to the repositories of the awarding universities and the website of the National Diet Library.

General Fields
Thesis & Dissertations
Open access
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Japan Search(National Diet Library)
Japan Search is a platform that allows you search, browse, and utilize metadata of contents in various fields owned by Japan, such as books, official documents, cultural properties, art, humanities, natural history / science and engineering, academic assets, broadcast programs, and movies. Under the policy of the Digital Archive Japan Promotion Committee and the Working-level Review Committee, the National Diet Library of Japan operates the system with the cooperation of various organizations. You can search for content held by institutions such as libraries, museums, art galleries, archives, universities, research institutes, government offices, and local governments.
General Fields
Arts
History
Languages
Literature
Books
Government documents
Images
Open access
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J-GLOBAL (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
This is a portal site for science and technology / academic information provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). On this site, you can find bibliographic information of major academic resources in Japan and overseas, researcher information, research projects and their results funded by competitive funds such as scientific research funds, public gazettes and patent gazettes of patents, and research conducted in Japan. You can search for the names and locations of domestic research institutes, such as the theme of the subject and the executing agency, and research resources such as databases provided by universities and research institutes in Japan and overseas, as well as scientific and technological terms, information on chemical substances, and genes.
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Agriculture & food
Chemistry
Geography
Mathematics
Medicine & Helth Care
Physics & Astronomy
Science & technology
Chemical substances & reactions
Conference Proceedings
Documents
Journal articles
Statistical data
Open access
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nihuBridge (National Institutes for the Humanities)
nihuBridge is a portal site for sharing and utilizing various research resources published by the National Institutes for the Humanities and collaborative organizations.

General Fields
Arts
Geography
History
Languages
Literature
Music
Sociology
Books
Images
Journal articles
Open access
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NDL Search (National Diet Library)
NDL Search allows you to search for materials and digital materials held by the National Diet Library,You can request for browsing or copying, and use a variety of other services.
You can also search for materials held by libraries in Japan with which has data linked.
General Fields
Books
Documents
Images
Open access
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Japan Knowledge Lib (NetAdvance)
Some articles on this website are available only in Japanese. If necessary, please use the browser’s automatic translation function.

This is a comprehensive full-text database of dictionaries and encyclopedias in Japan. The database contains over 70 dictionaries and encyclopedias, including the “Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho”, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”, and the Dictionary of the Japanese Language, and dictionaries in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and more.

◆Request to deactivate the link look-ahead function(updated 7 July 2023)
When using Japan Knowledge, please disable the setting using the procedure described in the link above.
Some recent web browsers have a built-in "link look-ahead" function. If this function is set, unintended mass accesses may occur, such as repeated loading of linked pages in the background.
It has also been pointed out that there is a risk of unintentional access to suspicious websites if this function is enabled.

General Fields
Chemistry
Economics
Geography
History
Mathematics
Physics & Astronomy
Books
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Journal articles
Statistical data
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Off-Campus access: Single sign-on
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