How To Find Materials

How To Find Materials

How to Find & Obtain Research Materials (PDF) Flowchart of how to find and obtain research materials
Training session “Basic Search for Materials”
Training Course Material (PDF)
Appendix (PDF)
Handouts of the training session on 11th October, 2019. Basic explanation on how to find and obtain research materials.

Search for books and journals

GRIPS OPAC Find materials at GRIPS Library 
How to use OPAC
E-Journal/E-Book search Find online journals and e-books
Textbook List Textbook list for the current term
CiNii Books Search collections of university libraries in Japan
NDL Search Search collections of National Diet Library & public libraries in Japan

Search for articles

GRIPS Discovery Service Search GRIPS subscription e-journals, e-books, databases and online open access academic resources all at one time
Online Resources Use databases to search articles

> Scopus

Institutional Repository at GRIPS Search for research outputs of GRIPS Faculty

Search for doctoral dissertation

Institutional Repository at GRIPS Search for dissertations conferred at GRIPS
NDLTD(Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Search and browse ETDs(electronic theses and dissertations) worldwide. Go to “Global ETD Search” to search for open access dissertations.
Worldcat Worldcat is the world’s largest database of bibliographic information. In “Advanced search,” you can search dissertations by limiting [content] to [Thesis/dissertaion].