Database

About 1,500 million articles in the Yomiuri Newspaper from the first issue in 1874 to the latest.

User's guide ( PDF )

Information about materials in more than 70,000 libraries around the world.

Information on collections or services in more than 10,000 libraries around the world.

The following journal is accessible.

• Asian Survey

Online edition of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

• You need to create an account to use this website (click here)
  (register only with a Gaidai email address)

The oldest English-language newspaper in Japan. 
*New content is added every year.

These archives are useful for following research:

• East Asia Geopolitics
• History
• Politics/History of Japan
• Japanology
• Military History
• Media History/Journalism
• Newspapers Research

The databases operated by the National Institute for Japanese Literature have been reorganized on April 1, 2023 as follows.
Chart: NIJL Databases New URLs（Links）

The following three journals are accessible.

• Asian Security
• Security Studies
• The Pacific Review

The following journal is accessible.

• Tourism Management

The following two journals are accessible.

• Journal of Peace Research
• Journal of Conflict Resolution

More than 6,000 journals in over 150 academic fields are viewable. The New York Times (1980-latest) is also available in full text.

More than 7,000 periodicals and newspapers.

The following five journals are accessible.

• International Studies Quarterly
• International Studies Review
• International Studies Perspectives
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• International Political Sociology

Journals issued in 1995 and before by Oxford University Press. You can read the oldest, issued in 1849, and other great articles over five fields, such as Medical Science, Science, Social Science, Law, and Humanities.

Oxford English Dictionary

Journals issued by Nikkei BP, announcements made by companies, governments, and municipalities. Journals can be displayed only in text or PDF (There are some exceptions).

Articles in newspapers, journals, business and law information. Mainly in English. Full text (some of them are only abstracts) can be accessible.

Digital Collections in NDL. Some hard-to-get materials are viewable in the library.
Applications for this should be made at check-out counter.

Materials in the fields of Literature, Linguistics, and Ethnology. Searches can be made among 240 million international publications.

The following journal is accessible.

• International Security

Materials in U.S. Library of Congress

17 kinds of Kenkyusha dictionaries and Daijirin dictionary.

Materials in Kansaigaidai University library and journals issued by Kansaigaidai University.

Back issues of e-Journals. Full text can be searched. References by authors, titles, and diagrams are available.

About 60 kinds of dictionaries and series. One of the nation’s largest online dictionary sites.

Over 480 million research results in every field, articles written in the Meiji era, theses by Nobel Prize winners, and other materials can be viewed in full text.

Contents of more than 25,000 international periodicals of many types.

Materials for education collected by the Educational Resources Information Center in the US.

    Cross Search of 
    following Databases

     • CiNii Books
      Materials in university libraries 
      in Japan
  
     • CiNii Dissertations
      Dissertations in National Diet 
      Library and university libraries 
      in Japan
     
     • IRDB
      Institutional Repositories 
      Database
 
     • KAKEN
      Grant-in-Aid 
      for Scientific Research

   ※ CiNii Research 
        Incorporated Databases

Materials in university libraries in Japan

Materials in business, such as marketing, management, financing, and many others. Full texts of over 2,300 journals are accessible.

Materials in British Library

Britannica dictionary in Spanish

Britannica dictionary in French

Britannica dictionary in English

Encyclopedia Britannica, International yearbook, and modern terms dictionary

Articles in the Asahi Newspaper in and after 1945. Chiezo or modern Japanese dictionary is also included.

Materials in Linguistics, Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Music, Gender, and many other fields.

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.

Lots of materials on academic research, including academic publications, articles and e-journals.