Subscribed Database

　　Remote Access: NO

You can access articles in back numbers of major scholarly journals.
Each title contains full text from the first issue to 3-5 years ago, and recent volumes are not included.
Some titles can be accessed from Nichibunken (by the SOKENDAI contract) and some titles that cannot.
For journals other than contract collections, a free personal account allows access to 6 articles every 30 days (downloading is not allowed).

URL 　　http://www.jstor.org/

　　Remote Access: OK　

※Referrer authentication support

KinoDen is a digital library service provided by Kinokuniya Book Store mainly for academic ebooks.
Currenltly, following books are available:

• Shin nihon koten bungaku taikei (1. Manyōshū - 45. Heike Monogatari)
• Nihonjin no kaigai katsudō ni kansuru rekishiteki chōsa (all volumes)
• Heisei saigaishi jiten (A cyclopedic chronological table of disaster in the Heisei era) (2009-2018, index)
• Kindai nihon jimmei roku e-BOOK fukkoku sousho
• Related biographical dictionary (" Jiten gaikokujin no mita nihon ", " Umi o koeta nihon jinmei jiten ", " Jiten kindai nihon no senkusha ")
• The Mainichi graphic  ( 1948-1958 )
  

KinoDen app start guide [PDF] (in Japanese)

URL 　　https://kinoden.kinokuniya.co.jp/nichibun/

　　Remote Access: OK

Consists of over 4,000 unpublished documents from the highest level of government, left by Kusuda Minoru, chief secretary to Sato Eisaku, the longest-serving prime minister (1964–1972) in postwar Japan. Dealing with a wide range of topics from diplomatic relations to domestic issues, they are essentially “Sato Eisaku documents,” including those classified as Top Secret. 

Using the Service

URL 　　http://j-dac.jp/KUSUDA/index.html

　　Remote Access: NO

Access the text of all of about 2,000 electronic journals and 60,000 electronic books published by Springer.

URL 　　http://link.springer.com/

　　Remote Access: OK

Lion Bolt is a legal document search database offered by Sapiens Inc. It contains over 4,000 full-text searchable titles (one million pages) including authoritative basic books in various fields of law, commentaries, lawmaker interpretations, old and newly published books, and journals. 
Note: Not compatible with Internet Explorer.

To use the database, please enter the following login ID (email address).
Login ID: riyou*nichibun.ac.jp (Replace * with @)
Note: Simultaneous accesses unlimited.

URL 　　https://lionbolt.jp/login

　　Remote Access: NO

One of Japan’s largest databases for journal article search. Covering works that could not be included in CiNii, it includes 14,000 annual reports, essay collections, collections of papers from symposiums and academic conferences, and so forth, for a total of 600,000 titles. The database as a whole contains about 30,000 periodical titles and 9,800,000 separate articles.

Using the Service
Nichigai Associates

URL 　　https://web.nichigai.jp/menu?user_id=NCB

　　Remote Access: OK

The digital archive of the Mainichi shimbun national daily newspaper (Japanese). The site allows searching for Mainichi Shimbun articles from the newspaper’s founding in 1872 to the present (up to previous day).

• Archives for not only the edition published by the head office in Tokyo but branch and local editions as well from the first issue in 1872.
• Search for scans of pages from the first issue in 1872 to 1999.
• Perusal using Flash format of digital reduced-size edition 1989–1999.
• Weekly magazine Ekonomisuto [Economist] articles and pages (PDF).
• Archive of The Mainichi English-language news site articles.

Other databases, including “Mainichi yoron sāchi” [Mainichi Public Opinion Search] and “Mainichi Shimbun Shashi” [The History of the Mainichi Shimbun].

Using the Service
*This database can be accessed by only one person at a time; be sure to click the Logout button to end your session.

URL 　　https://dbs.g-search.or.jp/WMAI/WMAI_ipcu_login.html

　　Remote Access: OK　※Referrer authentication supported

Platform for making available ebooks specializing in academic information through Maruzen Yushodo.

■ Regarding remote access (access from outside Nichibunken):

• The registration procedure can only be completed from a computer within Nichibunken.
• Press the “Account” button at the upper right of the top page and complete the registration procedure.
• Applicants may register only with their ID containing the domain name @nichibun.ac.jp.

URL 　　https://elib.maruzen.co.jp/

　　Remote Access: OK

Contains a total of 397 issues of the literary journal Mita bungaku from the inaugural issue in 1910 to immediately before the end of World War II, together with some 36,000 digital images and about 17,000 records. Offers access not only to literary works and articles but advertisements within the journal as well. Authors and bibliographical details are also accessible.

URL 　　http://j-dac.jp/mitabungaku