Databases by Title (A-Z)

Legal information database mainly in the United States and overseas. You can also search and read the full text of overseas newspaper articles, TV news, and magazine articles.Major 

Major newspapers: Daily Telegraph (2001-), Guardian (1985-), Independent (2000-), International New York Times (1997-), Los Angeles Times (1985-), USA TODAY (1989-), Washington Post (1978-), and many others.

Note (2024.2.29)
*Available from on-campus or off-campus with HIRODAI ID.
　Access to Westlaw classic (with HIRODAI ID)
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*Not available from on-campus without HIRODAI ID after April 1, 2024.  

nihuBridge is a portal site for sharing and utilizing various research resources published by the National Institutes for the Humanities and collaborative organizations.

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:

NOTICE: The available titles can also be searched in the Hiroshima University Library OPAC.

This is a service that allows you to search and view digital materials collected and stored at the National Diet Library. 

more information>About - NDL Digital Collections

→Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals^※1

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.

You can also search for materials held by libraries in Japan with which has data linked.

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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. 

TOC Premier provides access to the most up-to-date table of contents information for over 24,000 journals. The more than 25 million records in the citation-only database include: records created by EBSCO Publishing offering proprietary data dating back to 1995, with citations for some titles dating back to the 1960's and 1970's; records from the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS), some of which date back to the early 1980's; and records licensed from British Library Document Supply Centre, covering the entire 26,000 title collection, dating back to 1993.