e-Resources (Online Journals / E-Books)

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                                                                Terms of Use for e-Resources

                               The following actions are prohibited by the Copyright Act and the license agreements of providers. 

  1. The systematic downloading, manually or using auto-downloading software, etc., of multiple full-text files within a short period of time (downloading of multiple reference citations, e.g., into EndNote, is acceptable.)
  2. Reproductions or the redistribution of full text data.
  3. Using full text data for purposes other than individual use

 Remote Access to e-Resources

OIST employees can access the subscription-based journals and databases via https://journals.oist.jp/ using OIST username and password. If you have trouble accessing journals with this service, please consider requesting VPN access from the IT Division.
Instructions for how to use the OIST VPN can be found here.

Database Search System

mathscinet

A database from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Contains 2.8 million reviews and abstracts from math publications.
cin
For searching academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
wos
Academic citation indexing and search service. Includes Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, and Derwent Innovations Index (Patent Data).

Online training opportunities: English / Japanese
cas
natureex
Springer Nature Experiments is an advanced research solution dedicated to protocols and methods. Springer Nature Experiments has been designed to help users/researchers find and evaluate relevant protocols and methods across the whole Springer Nature protocols and methods portfolio (SpringerProtocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols and Protocols Exchange).
User Guide: English / Japanese

Online Journals

 
eee
Electrical engineering, computer science and electronics
n
Weekly journal of science
ovid
Medical, nursing and allied health information resources /Clinical Neuropharmacology / CNS Drugs / Current Opinion in Neurology /Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics / Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease /Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Neurology / Neurology Clinical Practice / Neuroreport
sc
Journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary
sc2
Web portal of Elsevier
sl
STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) journals & reference works by Springer
thieme
Synlett & Synthesis
Wiley
Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities
kaku
1963〜2013 (Japanese only)
   

E-Books

 
ebc
E-book platform that hosts a wide variety of titles. Provided by ProQuest.
Quick Reference Manual: English / Japanese
net
E-book Collection of Health & Medicine, Psychology, and Science
sp
Springer eBooks' holding is from the Year 1842 -2019.
csh
The archive's 59 full-text volumes provide the life science community with definitive reviews of progress in areas of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, genetics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cancer biology, and molecular pathology.

Magazines

 
american
An essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology.

Other Links

 
cinb
A database service to search information of books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.
idrb
IRDB (Institutional Repositories DataBase) is a database service that collects and provides metadata of content from over 500 academic institutions' repository in Japan.
coar
COAR is an international association with 164 members and partners from around the world representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others. COAR brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.
ed
ERDB-JP is a data-sharing service for e-resources published in Japan.
pubmed
PubMed with SFX (Link Resolver) and F1000.
22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
scip
Provided by Japan Science & Technology Agency (Japanese only)
jst

J-STAGE is a platform of e-journal publishing for academic (science and technology, including social sciences / humanities) societies in Japan.

The services are planned and managed by JST, and the journals and its articles are managed by respective publishing societies.