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

General Fields
Newspaper articles
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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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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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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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
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
General Fields
History
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
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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Business & Management
Economics
Journal articles
Newspaper articles
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Off-Campus access: Single sign-on
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Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
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)'.


History
Languages
Literature
Books
Open access
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The Merck Index Online (Royal Society of Chemistry)
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. 
Chemistry
Medicine & Helth Care
Chemical substances & reactions
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Off-Campus access: VPN service
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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
Off-Campus access: VPN service
Off-Campus access: Single sign-on
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