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Websites Useful for Searching

Book Search

Webcat Plus conducts search from recent publications to old publications before Meiji era.
Plus’ associative search function is capable of finding books that having a high association with the search keyword, and viewing the table of contents and information of books that are in library catalog in which libraries throughout Japan belonging to.

Journal Search

NII-REO (Repository of Electronic Journals and Online Publications)	Browsing journal title and abstract of each electronic journal from Kluwer, Oxford University, Press, and IEEE/CS.
NDL-OPAC	Library catalog searching system for National Diet Library. Magazine Article Index Searching allows searching from article titles etc. to find information on magazine articles that are in the National Diet Library databases.

Library Catalog, Magazines, Journals Searching

GeNii
(Global Environment for Networked Intellectual Information)

An integrated search system compiles with Webcat Plus, CiNii, KAKEN that searches for the adoption of assignment and accomplishment abstract of the researches funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the database of specialized fields, NII-DBR, which created by research institution.

Database Searching

Dnavi (Database Navigation Service)	National Diet Library provides links to various databases on the web. Approximately 9000 databases are recorded.
Index to Resources on Internet	Useful academic information collected by the University of Tokyo Library.

Other Library Catalogs Searching

NACSIS-Webcat	Search for library catalog such as books and magazines throughout university libraries in Japan.
NDL-OPAC	Search for other library catalogs in the National Diet Library such as newspapers, magazines, electric materials, classic materials, and PhD journals.
Gifu Prefectural Library Cross Searching	Search for library catalog in Gifu prefectural library.
Integrated Catalog Network System	Search for library catalog (Japanese only) in prefectural and city libraries.

Publication Searching

amazon.co.jp
e-hon National Bookstores Network
Search Engine for Japanese Books	Search for current accessible books that have been published domestically.
Japan Old Bookstores	Search for old Japanese and foreign books and old bookstores. It is a useful search for out of stock and out of print books.

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