Finding Journal Articles in Japanese
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Full Text databases
Although no comprehensive full text databases in Japanese are available, there are an increasing number of full text articles available in individual institutional repositories.
- JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online) provides institutional repository articles, and dissertations/theses with search function.
- J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) provides full text articles; limited coverage of humanities and social sciences.
Bibliographical citation databases
Bibliographical citations can be searched in major databases, such as:
- CiNii Articles [SOAS ID/PW required] A database of journal articles published in Japan. Some articles are available in full-text including JAIRO articles. User guide
- 雑誌記事索引集成データベース [SOAS ID/PW required] Index database for Japanese magazine and periodicals from the Meiji Era to the present.
- NDL-Search [国立国会図書館サーチ]The National Diet Library's journal/magazine index. Select 雑誌・論文.
- NDL-OPAC The National Diet Library’s journal/magazine index. Select 雑誌記事索引の検索 .
Subject based bibliographical citation databases are also available, such as:
Tips for starting research
- WebcatPlus provides information with tables of contents of books. Good for finding book chapters.
- CiNii Articles contains 1,500,000 citations which include 400,000 full-text. The database can be used mostly without SOAS log-in. However, some full-texts do require SOAS log-in.
- KISS [Korean-studies Information Service System] contains Japanese full-text articles published in Korea.
- When an article is not found in the databases above, try Google Scholar .
- Articles not available in London libraries can be obtained through the Interlibrary Loan Service.