Japanese Catalogs

• Books in Japanese

  • Webcat (NII)
    http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat.html (Japanese interface)
    http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html (English interface)
          Union catalog of Japanese University libraries.
          総合目録データベースWWW検索サービス
  • Webcat Plus
    The search system that adds related words from your keyword/sentence input to get the results.
    連想検索機能
  • NDL-OPAC (The National Diet Library) http://opac.ndl.go.jp/index.html
  • WINE (Waseda University)
    http://wine.wul.waseda.ac.jp/ (Japanese interface)
    http://wine.wul.waseda.ac.jp/search/ (English interface)
  • Book Contents (The University of Tokyo)
    Allows you to search for books held in the libraries of the University of Tokyo. The information includes actual contents of the books. Search for a title throught the UT's OPAC system, then click on Book Contents button (under the ISBN column).
    ブックコンテンツ・データベース
  • Early J-Books in Europe
    Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe
    欧州所在日本古書総合目録
  • NDL Search - a new web service that takes over and develops the functions of Digital Archive Portal (PORTA), NDL National Union Catalog Network System and other services.

  Articles in Japanese

  • Japanese Institutional Repositories Online  English | Japanese
  • National Diet Library Article Index (open for public access)
    The content of this reference material database overlaps with the Japanese Magzineplus a great deal but can be accessed without UW NetID. It includes phD thesis, periodicals, maps, music, etc.
  • CINII (Japanese)
    Scholarly and academic information navigator
    論文情報ナビゲータ
    国立情報学研究所
  • Directory of Open Access Journals in Japan Version 0.1
    Free full text Japanese journals.
  • INBUDS
    The article database search now includes listing, with direct links, to all articles that are presently available in PDF format.

  Others

  • Kyoto Univerisity Digital Library
    Offers its holdings of Educational wall charts (365 items) as well as Kanazawa University's (250 items), which were produced in 1855-1944.
  • University of Tokyo Komaba Library
    --Educational wall charts/maps used between the 1880s and early 1900s and images from the "PETIT, Stanislas. Le Praticien Industriel.
  • Nichibunken Databases
    Online rare books and Japanese studies databases. (Red dot indicates login required, blue indicates free access).