E-journals/Books and Databases
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Related Links
- E-journals, Books and Databases Available Off Campus
- Discount of APC for Open Access (on campus only)
Pay Attention !!
You must keep Terms and Conditions of each electronic material. Okayama University agrees to keep it with publisher.
We strongly ask you to keep the Terms and Conditions as below:
- You shall be a member of Okayama University such as student, faculty and staff.
- You can use electronic materials only from available campus.
- You can use them for your personal research (commercial use is prohibited).
- Systematic or massive downloads are strongly prohibited.
* Do not use download manager, P2P software and similar web browser add-in software.
* Do not use prefetching function of web browser.
* Do not download all article in a issue (You can download only what you read at that time). - You can use them only for yourself. Do not give downloaded file to someone, especially someone outside of the university.
If you are a Shikata campus member, plsease check Life Science Links (on campus only), too.
Electronic Journals
We subscribe the journals listed in the page below.
- Okayama University E-Journals List
If "Select New Service" page appears, plsease select "Publication Finder Interface".
Databases
We subscribe the following databases.
Databases with * have a limit on the number of concurrent users.We terminate the subscription of some databases, and start subscribing others. Please see "here" for the details.
| Title | Availability | Concurrent user limit | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18th/19th/20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Full text database for House of Commons parliamentary papers in 18th century (1688-1834), 19th century (1801-1900) and 20th century (1901-2004). | |
| beck-online | All Campus Available via VPN until June 30, 2020. → This service has ended. | German legal database by C.H. Beck. The titles below are full text available. -Strafrecht Plus -NJW Plus -AP Plus | |
| Biological Abstracts | All Campus Available via VPN | * | Bibliographic database in biology, medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, agriculture and interdisciplinary fields. The subscription was terminated. (Data of 1969-2017 are still available.) |
| CINAHL | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth | * | Bibliographic database nursing and allied health. |
| Current Index to Japanese Nursing Literature Web version | Shikata Campus Japanese lang. | * | A database that can search journal articles on nursing science in Japan. |
| EBM Reviews | All Campus Available via VPN | * | Full text database for reviews about evidenced based medicine. |
| Econlit | All Campus Available via VPN | * | Bibliographic database in economic research. |
| eol | All campus Available via VPN | * | Full text database for corporate information in Japan. |
| Essential Science Indicators | All Campus Available via VPN | Database based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases. | |
| Ichushi-Web | Tsushima and Shikata Campus Japanese lang. | * | An exhaustive collection of Japanese biomedical literature. |
| JapanKnowledge Lib | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth Japanese lang. | * | JapanKnowledge Lib is an online web archive that has the large corpus of encyclopedia, dictionaries, reference compilations, and periodical resources (approximately 50 different sources) in Japan. |
| JDream III | Tsushima Campus Available via VPN Japanese lang. | * | It is one of the largest science and technology literature databases in Japan that can search literature information on science and technology, medical and medicine related domestic and overseas. |
| Journal Citation Reports | All Campus Available via VPN | Database for evaluating the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. | |
| Kikuzo II Visual | All Campus Available via VPN Japanese lang. | * | The Kikuzo II Visual from the Asahi Shimbun Company is an online article database that permits easy investigation of past events. |
| Koyukai Zasshi | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth Japanese lang. | * | Koyukai zasshi is a school journal of First Higher School, a high school under the old system of education. |
| Lex/DB | All Campus Available via VPN until March 31, 2021. Japanese lang. | * | It is one of the largest legal information databases in Japan that comprehensively recorded judicial precedents from the case of the Grand Theater in 1875 to today. |
| MathSciNet | All Campus Available via VPN | Bibliographic database in mathematics. | |
| Medical Online | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth Japanese lang. | General web site of medical information for medical workers. | |
| MLA | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Bibliographic database in literature, lanugage and linguistics. | |
| OECD iLibrary (Books, Papers & Statistics | All Campus Available via VPN | Full text database for books, papers and statistics published by OECD. The subscription was terminated. (Data below are still available. Book, Paper: 1998-2017 (PDF, Excel) Statistics: archive data (CSV) published during subscription term) | |
| The Official Gazette Search Service | Please contact the Reference Counter of Central Library (9-17, weekdays). Japanese lang. | * | Full text database for a the Official Gazette of Japan (May 3, 1947-). |
| PressReader | All Campus Available via VPN | Full text database for past 90 days of newspapers and magazines around the world. | |
| PsycINFO | Tsushima Campus (Psychology majors) Only | * | Bibliographic database in psychology. |
| SciFinder-n | All Campus Registration Required (On campus or VPN only) Available via VPN Available via off campus until October 18, 2020 (ID/password required). However, user registration is only available on campus or VPN. | Bibliographic and fact database in chemistry. | |
| SciFinder (Web version) ※New version of SciFinder,「SciFinder-n」is available. SciFinder (Web version) will be terminated (the exact date hasn't been decided). | All Campus Registration Required (On campus or VPN only) Available via VPN Available via off campus until October 18, 2020 (ID/password required). However, user registration is only available on campus or VPN. | Bibliographic and fact database in chemistry. | |
| Springer Protocols | All Campus Available via VPN | Full text database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Protocols published until 2011 are available. | |
| Taiyo | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth Japanese lang. | * | Services that can read the text of the general magazine "Taiyo" 3rd Collection Taisho period (January 1913 to February 1928, 144 volumes) published by Hakubunkan |
| Today's Diagnosis and Treatment | All Campus Available via VPN Japanese lang. | * | Large-scale reference database containing massive amounts of data necessary for medical examinations. |
| Web of Science | All Campus Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Bibliographic database consists of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. | |
| Westlaw Next | All Campus Available via VPN | Full text database for American legal sources. | |
| Yomidas Rekishikan | All Campus Japanese lang. | * | Full text database for a newspaper published by the Yomiuri Shimbun. |
E-Books
We subscribe the following e-books.
Classification (NDC)
NDC is abbreviation of Nippon Decimal Classification.Platform
| Title | Availability | Concurrent user limit | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMS Contemporary Mathematics Series | Tsushima Campus | Series of ebooks in mathematics provided by American Mathematical Society, 1980-2016. | |
| Books@Ovid Nursing Book Collection | All campus ※Available via VPN | Nursing book collection provided by Ovid. →The title list | |
| Cambridge Ebooks | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | EBooks provided by Cambridge University Press. →The title list 1 →The title list 2 →The title list 3 | |
| eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | * | Collection mainly focused on scientific books. → The list in Library Catalog e.g. 朝倉物理学体系 朝倉書店基礎数学シリーズ 朝倉書店数学30講シリーズ 現代史資料 - 第1期～第4期 （みすず書房） 紀伊国屋数学叢書 卜部亮吾侍従日記 看護のための最新医学講座36巻 昭和財政史 |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect Methods in enzymology | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Series of ebooks in biochemistry and molecular biology,1955-2006. | |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect Reference Works | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Collection of 23 reference books provided by Elsevier. →The list in Library Catalog | |
| Gruyter eBooks Packages | All campus ※Available via VPN | About 140 ebooks in law in 2009 from Walter de Gruyter's ebook collection. →The list in Library Catalog | |
| Infobase Publishing eBooks | All campus | EBooks provided by Infobase Publishing. →The title list 1 →The title list 2 | |
| Karger eBook Series Collection | All campus ※Available via Shibboleth | EBooks provided by Karger. →The title list | |
| KinoDen（Kinokuniya Digital Library） | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | * | A service that provides academic institution materials. |
| LibrariE | All campus ※Available via Shibboleth | * | English Extensive Reading Books. - Oxford Bookworms |
| MARUZEN eBook Library | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | * | A service that provides academic institution materials. →The list in Library Catalog e.g. Wiley for Dummies 臨床精神医学講座 全36巻セット（中山書店） →The manual provided by Maruzen-Yushodo |
| Oxford Scholarship Online(LAW) | All campus ※Available via VPN | Oxford Scholarship eBook collection. - Law →The title list | |
| ProQuest Ebook Central | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | * | A service that provides academic institution materials. |
| RSC The Merck Index Online 15 ed. | All campus | The Merck Index Online offers the same highly authoritative information as the print edition in a convenient and easily searchable full text database. | |
| Springer eBooks | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Collection of over 10000 ebooks provided by Springer. -Behavioral Science 2005-2008 -Biomedical & Life Sciences 2005-2010 -Business & Economics 2005-2012 -Chemistry & Materials Science 2005-2008 -Computer Science 2005-2008 -Engineering 2005-2008 -Mathematics & Statistics 2005-2011 （Lecture notes in Mathematics 1964-1996） -Physics & Astronomy 2005-2009 -Medicine 2010-2011 | |
| Springer Lecture Note | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | provided by Springer. -Mathematics1964-2014 （2005-2011 in Mathematics & Statistics） -Physics1969-2004 | |
| Wiley Online Reference Works | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | Referenceworks provided by Wiley. | |
| Wiley Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry | All campus ※Available via VPN,Shibboleth | A benchmark reference in chemistry and chemical and life science engineering, covering inorganic and organic chemicals, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys, biotechnology and biotechnological products, food chemistry, process engineering and unit operations, analytical methods, environmental protection, and much more. | |
| 70 Jahre Grundgesetz (GG) Anniversary eBook Collection（Duncker & Humblot) | All campus | EBooks provided by Duncker & Humblot. →The title list |
English Extensive Reading Books
★ = Recommended series
= eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), 
= MARUZEN eBook Library, 
= LibrariE, 
= ProQuest Ebook Central
Graded Readers
- ELI Young Adult Readers (42 titles)
- Macmillan Readers (123 titles) ★
- Oxford bookworms library (152 titles) ★
- Pearson English Readers (89 titles) ★
- Page Turners (50 titles) ★
- Read Smart Readers (14 titles) ★
Biographical Readers
- Who Was? (66 titles) ★
Children's Books/Leveled Readers
- Boyz rule! (32 titles)
- Cambridge Discovery Readers (25 titles)
- Cambridge Young Readers (20 titles)
- DK Readers (46 titles)
- Foundations reading library (42 titles)
- Get Real! (20 titles)
- Girlz Rock! (28 titles)
- Legends in their own lunchbox (36 titles)
- Magic Tree House (82 titles) ★
- Orca Young Readers(73 titles)
- PRISM series (8 titles)
- Springboard Connect (150 titles)
Original Books
- Very Short Introductions (171 titles) ★
Japanese Extensive Reading Books
Graded Readers
- Japanese Graded Readers NIHONGO YOMUYOMU BUNKO (48 titles)
- Nihongo Tadoku Books (55 titles)