Databases by Title (A-Z)
| Maruzen e-Book Library (MARUZEN-YUSHODO) | |
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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:
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. |
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| Off-Campus access: Single sign-on | |
| Partial full text |
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Trial: 2024/9～2025/3 Predatory Reports（Cabells） |
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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. |
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| Working papers | |
| Off-Campus access: VPN service | |
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| Yomidas (Yomiuri Shinbun Co.) | |
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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 |
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| Newspaper articles | |
| 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 | |
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General Fields History |
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| Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | |
| Off-Campus access: VPN service | |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part I-II (NII REO) | |
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The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind and an essential resource for advanced study of the eighteenth century, this collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. >More information (Gale) |
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General Fields Business & Management Economics Education Geography History Languages Law Literature Music Philosophy Political Science |
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| Off-Campus access: VPN service | |
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