Databases by Title (A-Z)

Infobase ebooks (Infobase Publishing)
An e-book full-text database containing textbooks and reading materials that are actually used in the curriculum of elementary, junior high, and high schools in the United States.
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Education
Books
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OLMS ONLINE – Reprints (Georg Olms)
Olms Online presents titles with additional information. These are reprints with new introductions, afterwords, notes or indexes added by the editors. Here you will find some 400 volumes with a focus on German language and literature and on philosophy.
* Messkatalogen [Book Fair Catalogs] is not available.
History
Languages
Literature
Philosophy
Books
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 750 core serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers.
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Political Science
Books
Journal articles
Thesis & Dissertations
Working papers
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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Sociological Abstracts, and its companion file Social Services Abstracts, cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.
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Sociology
Books
Conference Proceedings
Journal articles
Thesis & Dissertations
Working papers
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Beck-Online:DIE DATENBANK (C. H. Beck)
A full-text database of German law containing laws, books (handbooks, commentals), journal articles, case law, and administrative documents.

Available specialised modules】
・Familienrecht plus
・Strafrecht plus
・Verfassungsrecht plus
・Zivilrecht plus
・Handels-u. Gesellschaftsrecht plus
・Europarecht plus
・Erbrecht plus

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Law
Books
Government documents
Journal articles
Laws & Court Decisions
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ProQuest Ebook Central (former: ebrary) (ProQuest)
Ebook full-text database.
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*You can download a chapter PDF from the table of contents or download a chapter, page range or single page PDF from the Reader. Chapter downloads require users to sign-in to their Ebook Central account. 

*Ebooks that have not been purchased at Hiroshima University can be read free of charge for up to 5 minutes in 24 hours. 

*Simultaneous access limit for each title: 1 
General Fields
Books
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Search and view the full text of eBooks.

*Depending on publisher-specified limits, up to 100 pages of an EBSCO eBook can be printed as a PDF file (per user) from within the eBook viewer.
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Books
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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EBSCO Open Dissertations (EBSCOhost)
EBSCO Open Dissertations includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

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Thesis & Dissertations
Open access
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