Databases by Title (A-Z)

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

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Newspaper articles
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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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
Off-Campus access: VPN service
Off-Campus access: Single sign-on
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Westlaw classic (former Westlaw Next)(Thomson Reuters)
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.
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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.  

General Fields
Law
Journal articles
Laws & Court Decisions
Newspaper articles
Off-Campus access: VPN service
Off-Campus access: Single sign-on
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UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer Health)@Kasumi campus
UpToDate is the clinical decision support resource associated with improved outcomes. More than 80 research studies demonstrate its impact on improved patient care and hospital performance.

*UpToDate Mobile is also available.
*UpToDate Anywhere [Off-campus access]
You can also use it from off-campus by creating an account on UpToDate Anywhere. Registration requires access on the campus network.
*Access from off-campus using the VPN service is prohibited.
Medicine & Helth Care
Medical information
Off-Campus access: Other methods
Kasumi campus only
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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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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
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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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.

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Arts
Geography
History
Languages
Literature
Music
Sociology
Books
Images
Journal articles
Open access
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OECD iLibrary (OECD)
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.
Agriculture & food
Business & Management
Economics
Education
Political Science
Science & technology
Statistics
Books
Conference Proceedings
Journal articles
Statistical data
Working papers
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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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