Databases by Title (A-Z)

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.

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.  

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.

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*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.

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

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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:

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. 

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→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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

*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. 

This database is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.

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【Important Notice】
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I  have changed from the end of March 2024.(April 1st, 2024)
It is still possible to access Web of Science and change the search target database to 「ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index」in order to search for articles. However, you can no longer browse the contents of the articles. For information on how to find open access doctoral dissertations and how to buy access to articles,please refer to this page (Japanese page).

*Note (2023.6.14) 
 Available use "Full text - PDF" only. → Not available after the end of March 2024.
 Others: you can purchase PDF files or copies of the dissertation with your credit card.

A research performance management website where you can consolidate and manage records such as publications, peer reviews, and memberships on editorial boards. It is capable of integrating with Web of Science and ORCiD.

＊To utilize this service, an account registration is necessary. The account may be shared with Web of Science, Endnote basic, and ResearcherID.

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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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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.

The Merck Index Online offers the source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

The Merck Index Online will be updated regularly with accurate information curated by experts. 

This is a database constructed by the National Institute of Japanese Literature, which allows users to search and use at once bibliographic information and high-resolution images of Japanese manuscripts and prints before Edo period, held by NIJL and many other institutions and owners at home and overseas. It is open to the public free of charge and can be used by anyone.

This database is a developmental integration of the 'Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books', a comprehensive catalogue of Japanese classical books, and the 'Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works', established through the 'Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts (NIJL-NW project)'.

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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.

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a digital library of public-domain music scores.

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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* There is an application for smartphones and tablets (Android・iOS).

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. 

It has also been pointed out that there is a risk of unintentional access to suspicious websites if this function is enabled.

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.

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Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information such as the Journal Impact Factor based on citation data.
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A Digital collection of social science literature centered on the history of economics, business history, and social thought from the mid-15th century to 1945, which is owned by Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature (Senate House, University of London)  and Kress Library of Business and Economics (Harvard University) .

also ＞Humanities & Social Sciences Collection (NII-REO)

MarinLit is a database dedicated to marine natural products research.

If not available to use, please try as fellow.

STEP1:

 Access the following URL

  https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals

STEP2：

 Check the message "Network access provided by: HIROSHIMA DAIGAKU"

STEP3：

 Access MarinLit again

  https://marinlit.rsc.org/

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefullymaintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts andbibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciencesliterature.

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Google Scholar allows you to search for academic papers, articles, publications, abstracts, etc. that are available on the Internet.

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A database of electronic theses and dissertations. Full text is also available for some papers.

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An online, fully searchable facsimile, the Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through 2021. Every article, advertisement, and market listing is included—shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day.

Europeana gives you access to millions of cultural heritage items from institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.

The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes data from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 additional journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. The bulk of the content in CIS is from 1975-2017.

Fast, bottom-line answers to the most commonly-asked clinical questions, based on comprehensive and expertanalysis of the medical literature. Includes the full text of Cochrane's regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care.

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>Browse Cochrane Reviews by Group

Cross-searching is possible, including articles from domestic journals in Japan, research data from external collaboration institutions and institutional repositories, collection information from universities, doctoral theses, and research project information from KAKEN.

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NOTICE:From April 1, 2022, CiNii Articles will be integrated into CiNii Research, and article search will be unified in CiNii Research.