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GRIPS Discovery Service On Campus Remote

  • You can search GRIPS subscription e-journals, e-books, databases and online open access academic resources all at one time. Some of the search results provide full-text links.
  • E-journals and databases marked with asterisks【**】can be searched through the GRIPS Discovery Service. Besides, You can also search other online resources not listed below.

HELP
Quick Guide (PDF)
Tutorial on You Tube
Tutorial(PowerPoint)
Improving Your Search Results – Tutorial on You Tube
Improving Your Search Results (PowerPoint)
Training session for EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost Databases (Presentation Slides, October 17, 2019)(PDF)

E-Journals

E-Journals/E-Books searchOn Campus Remote

You can search GRIPS subscription e-journals and e-books by title via “E-journals / E-books search.”

HELP
Publication Finder Overview Tutorial (video)
Publication Finder Overview (PowerPoint)

E-Journal Platform

Cambridge Journals 【**】

Science Direct (Elsevier) 【**】

JSTOR 【**】

Oxford Journals 【**】

SpringerLink 【**】

Taylor & Francis Online 【**】

Wiley Online Library 【**】

* JSTOR works best with Safari, Firefox and Chrome.
Please make sure that your browser is updated. The quality of your experience will only get worse with the Internet Expoler.

 

Databases

Frequently used Databases

EBSCOhost (Academic Search Premier, Econlit) 【**】

Scopus 【**】

Google Scholar

 

Databases by title

Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost]【**】

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Articles

A multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

AllThatStats【**】

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Statistics

AllThatStats provides statistical time series from most important national and international official /semi official sources (the World Bank, the UN, the IMF, the OECD and so on) .

American Economic Association Journals【**】

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E-Journal

Online journals provided by American Economic Association.

Annual Reviews

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E-Journal

Annual Reviews is a series of review journals which covers a broad range of disciplines. Titles in economics and political science are available at GRIPS.

Cambridge Journals Online【**】

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E-Journal

The journals of mainly arts and science and social science published by Cambridge University Press.
To browse the journals with full text, go to [Browse Journals] > [Subscribed to].

CEIC Data [Provided by Data Science Center]

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Statistics

CEIC is a database service that provides various macro-economic statistics
(GDP, public finance, monetary, trade, demographic, investment, household, properties, etc)
about 213 countries including emerging and developed countries.
You have access to Global Database, Premium Database Indonesia and World Trend Plus.
There are two ways to log in: Guest Login and Account Login.
*[Guest Login] No account/password is required. You can’t save your search results.
*[Account Login] If you register your e-mail address, you can save your search results.
* Please be sure to log out after use.

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)【**】

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Documents

From the nongovernmental National Security Archive(NSA), this resource consists of government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.

EBSCOhost【**】

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Articles

Includes following databases. Searching within a single database or federated search is available.

Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for more than 4,600 journals.
Econlit: A source of references to economic literature. *no links to full text
eBook Collection: Search and view the full text of eBooks.

HELP
>> View EBSCO Support on You Tube
>> EBSCO Tutorials
>> EBSCOhost Pocket Guide (Training Session Handouts, October 17, 2019)(PDF) >> Training session for EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost Databases (Presentation Slides, October 17, 2019)(PDF)

Econlit [EBSCOhost]【**】

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Articles

Provides source of references to economic literature. Contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present.
Full texts are NOT available.

eBook Collection [EBSCOhost]【**】

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E-Book

Search and view the full text of eBooks.
The books can be searched via OPAC.

HELP
EBSCO eBooks Support

Elgaronline

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E-Journal

Online journals provided by Elgaronline.

Global Newsstream【**】

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Newspaper

Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content- with archives that stretch back into the 1980s- from over 2,800 news sources.
Global Newsstream provides one of the largest collections of news from the U.S., Canada,
Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

Google Scholar

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Articles

Free

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including theses, books, articles published by academic institutions and publishers.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (18th-20th Century HCPP) [NII REO]

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Documents

Provides the Parliamentary Papers of the United Kingdom, covering “Long” 18th century (1660-1834) for the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and 19th (1801-1900) & 20th (1901-2004) century for the House of Commons.

ILO A-Z databases【**】

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Statistics, Law

Free

List of International Labour Organization (ILO) databases such as Labour Force Surveys, ILOSTAT and Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM).

IMF eLibrary Data【**】

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Statistics

Free

A statistical database provided by International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The database includes following datasets.

International Financial Statistics (IFS) coverage:1948-
Balance of Payments (BOPS) coverage:1945-
Direction of Trade statistics (DOTS) coverage:1947-
Government Finance Statistics (GFS) coverage:1990-

HELP
User guides available at help page.

ingentaconnect

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E-Journal

A multi-disciplinary database which integrates the information of online journals of several publishers.
The articles with keys of “Subscribed content” “Free content” “Open access content” and “Free trial content” have links to full text.

JSTOR【**】

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E-Journal

Digital archive of academic journals.
Most of the title is archived from the initial issue.

Table of contents of collections available at GRIPS
Arts & Sciences I
Arts & Sciences II
Arts & Sciences IV

* JSTOR works best with Safari, Firefox and Chrome.
Please make sure that your browser is updated. The quality of your experience will only get worse with the Internet Expoler.

Labordoc (ILO Library)【** Partially Covered】

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Documents

Free

Labordoc is a research portal providing a single search across the ILO Library catalogue and its digital repository, including full-text access of ILO publications.

NBER Working Papers【**】

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E-Journal

Provides full texts of National Bureau of Economic Research(NBER) papers from the first issue(1973) to current.

Nikkei Asia (Nikkei Asian Review)【**】

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E-Journal

Nikkei Asia brings you news and insights on the region’s most influential companies, and comprehensive coverage of politics, economy, markets and trends – all from a uniquely Asian perspective.

The Nixon Years, 1969-1974【**】

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Documents

This project provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files from The National Archives, UK, for the entire period of the Nixon administration, 1969-1974. Top level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers dominate this project.

OAIster【**】

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Articles

Free

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide.

OECD iLibrary【**】

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Articles

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the OECD featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. All book and journal content with “READ icon” is available to all users.

Oxford Handbooks Online

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E-Book

Oxford Handbooks series offers introductions to topics and current states of scholarship across many different subject areas. SomeTitles in Economics and Finance / Political Science are available at GRIPS.

Oxford Journals【**】

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E-Journal

Oxford Scholarship

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E-Book

E-books provided by Oxford University Press.

Oxford University Press: Archive Collection (1849-1995), (1996-2003) [NII REO]

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E-Journal

Online journal archives provided by Oxford University Press. 
Full texts are available from 1849 to 2003.
Online journal provided by Oxford University Press.

ProQuest Ebook Central【**】

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E-Book

Search and view the full text of eBooks provided by ProQuest.
The books can be searched via OPAC.

PubMed【**】

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Articles

Free

PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

RePec – IDEAS【**】

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Articles

Free

IDEAS is a part of RePEc(Research Papers in Economics). It is a bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 2,000,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 1,800,000 can be downloaded in full text.

Science Direct【**】

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E-Journal

Oline journal in science, technology, medicine, and social science provided by Elsevier.
Articles with full text are shown with green icon or orange icon.

HELP
Online tutorials

Scopus【**】

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Articles, Citation

A large abstract and citation database covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and arts and humanities.
Contains abstracts from 1800’s, and every article published since 1970 has links to cited references.
It also links to other online journals if the full text is available.

HELP
Online tutorials Training Session Handout: Scopus (PDF)
Training Session Handout: Mendeley (PDF)
*Handout of the training session on November 7, 2019.

SpringerLink【**】

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E-Journal

Online journal of Springer Publishing covering many disciplines.
Full texts are available from 1997.

Springer Online Journal Archives (1832-1999) [NII REO]

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E-Journal

Online journal archives provided by Springer. 
Full texts are available from 1832 to 1999.

Taylor & Francis Online【**】

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E-Journal

Collection of journals and reference works provided by Taylor & Francis Group including Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
A number of open access articles are available.

UNdata

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Statistics

Free

Free statistical database provided by The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).
The datasets of UN divisions and other international organizations are available.

U.S. Intelligence on Asia Online, 1945-1991 (Brill)

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Documents

The purpose of this unique online collection is to provide students and researchers with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War (1945-1991).
Particular emphasis is given to America’s principal antagonists in Asia during the Cold War era: the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam. However, countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia are covered as well.

Very Short Introductions Social Science 2013-2021 (Oxford University Press)

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E-Journal

Oxford’s Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects. The titles included in “Social Science” are available.

Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975【**】

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Documents

The strong collections covers U.S. involvement in the region from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the escalation of the war during the Johnson administration, to the final resolution of the war at the Paris Peace Talks and the evacuation of U.S. troops in 1973. The collections also highlight all of the most important foreign policy issues facing the U.S. between 1960 and 1975.

Westlaw Next (User registration is required.
Please contact GRIPS Library.)

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News, Law

This database covers legal resources and public records information.
Getting Started Guide(PDF)

Wiley Online Library【**】

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E-Journal

Online journal provided by Wiley-Blackwell.
The full texts of journals which GRIPS library subscribes to and a number of open access articles are available.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

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Articles

Free

The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

World DataBank

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Statistics

Free

Free online web resource which provides various datasets including World Development Indicators (WDI) and Global Development Finance (GDF).
You can browse or build your own queries, and create tables, charts and maps.

HELP
Data Catalog
Tutorial / FAQ

WorldCat

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Books, Journals

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The Union catalog about books and materials, held by libraries all over the world.

 

Japanese Databases

Bank of Japan (Statistics)

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Statistics

Free

Statistical data released by the Bank of Japan.
The link to BOJ Time-Series Data Search is available.

e-Stat (Official Statistics of Japan)

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Books, Journals

Free

Portal Site of Official Statistics of Japan.

CiNii Research【**】

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Articles

CiNii Research enables you to search information on academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in the National Diet Library’s Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

CiNii Books

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Books, Journals

Free

CiNii Books enables you to search information of books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.

CiNii Dissertations

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Theses

Free

CiNii Dissertations enables you to search information on dissertations written for doctoral degrees in Japan conferred by Japanese Universities and the National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation.

IRDB【**】

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Articles

Free

You can cross-search academic information (journal articles, theses or dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers, etc.) accumulated in Japanese institutional repositories.

J-PlatPat

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Patents

Free

J-PlatPat provides around 100.3 million documents of patents, utility models, designs and trademarks and their relevant information that have been published since the end of the 19th century. Basic information in gazettes can also be retrieved and used in English.

Japanese Law Translations

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News, Law

Free

The Ministry of Justice launched the Japanese Law Translation Database (this website) and, in addition to making laws and regulations that have been translated by the relevant ministries and agencies available to the public, the Ministry of Justice is also engaged in making the necessary revisions to the Standard Legal Terms Dictionary.

J-STAGE【**】

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E-Journal

Free

You can search and/or access the latest paper and documents appeared in the past with a browser.
Allows making reference to documents from which a research paper is citing with the references cited link function.

KAKEN

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Articles

Free

Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research contains the “Project Selected” documents and the research report summaries

Maruzen eBook Library

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E-Book

“E-books mainly in Japanese provided by Maruzen Yushodo. 
*Be sure to log off when you finish reading by clicking the “閲覧終了” button.”

NDL Search【** Partially Covered】

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Books, Journals

Free

NDL Search is an integrated search service of catalogs and digital archives including libraries, archives, museums, academic institutes and the National Diet Library.

"The World and Japan" database

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Documents

Free

“The World and Japan” database project consists of three databases which are continuously updated: “Japanese Politics and International Relations” covering basic documents and speeches of Japan’s postwar foreign policy (Japanese, partly English and partly Chinese), “Chronology of the 20th and 21st Centuries” (Japanese only), and “Abbreviations for International Relations” (Japanese only).

 

Instructions and Directions for Use

Publishers have their own terms and conditions for the use of e-resources.
The following acts are prohibited.

  • Use for purposes other than personal research and study
  • Excessive downloads or print-outs beyond normal personal usage, in particular, downloads using automatic download software
  • Duplication and redistribution of data

Any breach of the Terms and Conditions may result in our rights to access the resources being suspended.