Databases
The Making of the Modern World, Part I
This collection follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth -- the driving force behind many of the major events during the period (1450-1850). It can be used to support research in slavery, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender and more.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a comprehensive online archive of the Eighteenth Century Published in the United Kingdom.
Encyclopedia of Japanese Historical Place Names
※It was integrated with JapanKnowledge from April, 2014
This is the digitization of all the study results of Japanese historical place names and local history study (51 volumes/ Heibonsha ) accessable from its WEB site.
Primal Pictures
Simultaneous access = 5
As of November 15, 2021, most of the contents are no longer available, due to the end of support for Adobe Flash Player. (Except for Legacy Products)
Please use a similar resource, Visible Body.
Primal Pictures, the world’s most medically accurate and detailed 3D graphic rendering of human anatomy.
Newspaper Clippings Collection
"Newspaper Clippingｓ Collection " is the newspaper-clippings data from the end of Meiji to Showa 45. It was created by Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, and is called "newspaper-clippings library". Newspaper articles had been collected over 60 years.
KinoDen (Kinokuniya Digital Library)
Simultaneous access for each title：1
Date 00:00-02:00 on September 25, 2025(Japan Time)
Due to system maintenance, Following service in KinoDen will be temporarily unavailable during the above period.
This is an e-book platform provided by Kinokuniya-Shoten focusing on academic books.
Click "Search" without specifying search criteria, and a list of purchased titles will be displayed.
The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest research database of ProQuest covering approximately 160 fields such as Humanities and social science, natural science and the medical field.
SpringerProtocols
Contents published from the first issue to 2019 are available.
SpringerProtocols is assembled over 25,000 molecular biology and biomedical science protocols. SpringerProtocols is an invaluable resource for the modern research laboratory.
TaDELS Taiwan Colonial Statistics Database
The chief objective of the Taiwan Colonial Statistics Database lies in the preservation of official statistical records from the Japanese colonial period.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides.
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
This catalog lists all the digital collections of Bibliotheque nationale de France.
Gallica archives a number of digital documents.
Gale eBooks （Formaly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library [GVRL]）
Gale eBooks delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format.
Title list is available at the menu bar of the top page.
DBpia
※Only Social Science and Humanities related fields are available.
It is an e-journal database of Korea.
You can access to more than 1,905 kinds of the periodical literature and irregular publication published by more than 942 academic societies, research institutes and publishing companies with whloe sentence information .
LISTA [Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts]
LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
NDL ONLINE
The National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) is the catalog of library materials and digital contents at the National Diet Library in Japan.
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Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)
Business research database, providing the full text in all fields of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Lexis+
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Lexis is a full text database that provides access to legal source materials in the world and information for business, financial, news and market information research.
PSO: Prefectural Statistics Online
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You can search statistical data on every fields by prefecture, which you have to group together from huge collection of books and microfilms without this database.
For example, you can easily get the data like following:
