Database

Title

The Japan Times Archives

Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access 1
Content to be searched

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
Title

Oxford Journals Online Archive Collection

(-1995)

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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.

Title

National Diet Library
NDL-Search

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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.

Title

Britannica Online
French

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Britannica dictionary in French

Title

University of California Press

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

The following journal is accessible.

Title

The Wall Street Journal(WSJ)

Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access 100
Content to be searched

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)
Title

Yomidas

Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access 2
Content to be searched

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

User's guide ( PDF )

 

Title

MLA International Bibliography

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Nexis Uni
(Up-graded LexisNexis Academic)

Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Oxford English Dictionary

Title

Kenkyusha Online Dictionary

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access 5
Content to be searched

17 kinds of Kenkyusha dictionaries and Daijirin dictionary.

Title

ERIC

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

WorldCat Articles

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Business Source Premier

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Britannica Online
English

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Britannica dictionary in English

Title

Britannica Online Japan

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Encyclopedia Britannica, International yearbook, and modern terms dictionary

Title

British Library

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Materials in British Library

Title

PressReader

Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access 3
Content to be searched

More than 7,000 periodicals and newspapers.

Title

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - IX

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Nikkei BP Academic

Category Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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).

Title

ingentaconnect

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Google Scholar

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Academic OneFile

(GALE )

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

Research Library

(ProQuest )

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

J-STAGE

Category Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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.

Title

WorldCat

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

KansaigaidaiOPAC

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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

Title

SAGE

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

The following two journals are accessible.

Title

Taylor & Francis

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

The following three journals are accessible.

Title

MIT Press Journal

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

The following journal is accessible.

Title

Oxford University Press

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Title

Science Direct

Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

The following journal is accessible.

Title

CiNii Research

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

    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

Title

CiNii Books

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Materials in university libraries in Japan

Title

Library of Congress

Category Books
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Materials in U.S. Library of Congress

Title

JapanKnowledge

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access 4
Content to be searched

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

Title

Britannica Online
Spanish

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
MyLibrary
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Britannica dictionary in Spanish

Title

The databases operated by the National Institute for Japanese Literature

Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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)

Title

Asahi Shinbun Cross-Search

Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Concurrent access 2
Content to be searched

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

Title

National Diet Library

Digital Collections

Category Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
Off campus
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

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