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This site lists e-resources that Sophia University Library subscribes to as well as useful websites selected by the librarians.
■ In principle, access to such services is limited to the faculty, staff, and students of Sophia University. If you are a junior college student, please use the database from the junior college library website.
■ Please log in to MY OPAC to use the subscribed database.
■ To use the subscribed database from off-campus, you need to connect VPN + MY OPAC.
■ When you search for e-resources, please read "Precautions" carefully before using.
■ Please disable the prefetch function by changing the browser settings when using the electronic resources. Recently, there have been many cases where the link prefetching of a web browser caused unintended large-volume download and access. For more details, please refer to the following : here
■ Please search for individual titles of online journals and e-books from the "e-Resources Access Page".
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Academic Search Complete(EBSCOhost)
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| Purpose | Useful Databases / Overseas articles / Electronic Journal | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | General / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Bibliography / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Statistics / Sociology / Education / Environment / Natural Science / Mathematics / Physics / Chemistry / Biology / Medicine / Nursing / Engineering / Electricity / Information Sciences | ||
| Description | It is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Useful Databases / Overseas articles / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | General / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Bibliography / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Statistics / Sociology / Education / Environment / Natural Science / Mathematics / Physics / Chemistry / Biology / Medicine / Nursing / Engineering / Electricity / Information Sciences |
| Description | It is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
The American West
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal | Language | English |
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| Subject | Humanities / History | ||
| Description | Sources from The Edward E. Ayer Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Lirary,Chicago. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Humanities / History |
| Description | Sources from The Edward E. Ayer Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Lirary,Chicago. |
American History, 1493-1945 Module1:1493-1859 Module2:1860-1945
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book | Language | English |
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| Subject | Humanities / History | ||
| Description | From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history. Module1:Settlement,commerce,revolution and reform Module2:Civil war,reconstruction and the modern era |
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Humanities / History |
| Description | From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history. Module1:Settlement,commerce,revolution and reform Module2:Civil war,reconstruction and the modern era |
Business Source Elite(EBSCOhost)
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Cooperate and Organization | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Economics / Business / Statistics | ||
| Description | This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Cooperate and Organization |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Economics / Business / Statistics |
| Description | This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
BioMed Central
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal | Language | English |
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| Subject | Biology / Medicine / Nursing | ||
| Description | Over 290 quality peer-reviewed electronic journals in Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Biology / Medicine / Nursing |
| Description | Over 290 quality peer-reviewed electronic journals in Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health. |
Bibliography of Asian Studies（EBSCOhost）
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Humanities / History / Social Sciences / Political Science / Economics / Business / Statistics / Sociology / Education | ||
| Description | The most comprehensive western-language resource for research on East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Humanities / History / Social Sciences / Political Science / Economics / Business / Statistics / Sociology / Education |
| Description | The most comprehensive western-language resource for research on East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
CAS SciFinder🄬
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| Purpose | Overseas articles | Language | English |
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| Subject | Natural Science / Chemistry | ||
| Description | CAS（Chemical Abstracts Service） databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
*For using SciFinder Web, needed to register for use. 【Registration Site】 https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=43F090C3-86F3-50AB-1956-D7403DA6B348 【How to register】(Japanese) https://seminar.jaici.or.jp/sf/sfn_aca_user.pdf 【User's Guide】 ・ CAS SciFinderⁿ Training(Japanese) https://www.jaici.or.jp/cas-scifinder-discovery-platform/workshop-events/ |
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| User Guide | https://www.cas.org/cas-scifinder-discovery-platform/cas-scifindern | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Natural Science / Chemistry |
| Description | CAS（Chemical Abstracts Service） databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
*For using SciFinder Web, needed to register for use. 【Registration Site】 https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=43F090C3-86F3-50AB-1956-D7403DA6B348 【How to register】(Japanese) https://seminar.jaici.or.jp/sf/sfn_aca_user.pdf 【User's Guide】 ・ CAS SciFinderⁿ Training(Japanese) https://www.jaici.or.jp/cas-scifinder-discovery-platform/workshop-events/ |
| User Guide | https://www.cas.org/cas-scifinder-discovery-platform/cas-scifindern |
CINAHL(EBSCOhost)
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| Purpose | Overseas articles | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Medicine / Nursing | ||
| Description | This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Medicine / Nursing |
| Description | This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
Cochrane Library, The
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| Purpose | Overseas articles | Language | English |
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| Subject | Medicine / Nursing | ||
| Description | A collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties. | ||
| User Guide | http://www.wiley.co.jp/electronic/JP-BIG_10108-Cochrane_userguide_A5_12pp_flyer_LR.pdf | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Medicine / Nursing |
| Description | A collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties. |
| User Guide | http://www.wiley.co.jp/electronic/JP-BIG_10108-Cochrane_userguide_A5_12pp_flyer_LR.pdf |
CAIRN
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal | Language | French |
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| Subject | Humanities / Social Sciences | ||
| Description | It offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone publications in social sciences and humanities. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | French |
| Subject | Humanities / Social Sciences |
| Description | It offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone publications in social sciences and humanities. |
Criminal Justice Abstracts（EBSCOhost）
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| Purpose | Overseas articles | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Law | ||
| Description | Criminal Justice Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Law |
| Description | Criminal Justice Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
China Maxx Digital Libraries
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book | Language | Chinese |
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| Subject | Humanities / History | ||
| Description | 中国各地の「文史資料（回顧録、日記、口述による資料など）」２万余集、５０余万編を収録。 | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book |
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| Language | Chinese |
| Subject | Humanities / History |
| Description | 中国各地の「文史資料（回顧録、日記、口述による資料など）」２万余集、５０余万編を収録。 |
DBpia
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal | Language | Korean |
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| Subject | General / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Bibliography / Political Science / Sociology / Education | ||
| Description | DBpia is a Online service of Korean academic journals, Conference Proceedings, professional journals, E-Books, WebDB and so on. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | Korean |
| Subject | General / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Bibliography / Political Science / Sociology / Education |
| Description | DBpia is a Online service of Korean academic journals, Conference Proceedings, professional journals, E-Books, WebDB and so on. |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online(ECCO)
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal | Language | English |
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| Subject | Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Sociology | ||
| Description | Eighteenth Century Collections Online?contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages, making ECCO the premier and irreplaceable resource for eighteenth-century research. An archive of all printed matter published in 18th century England and its colonies. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Sociology |
| Description | Eighteenth Century Collections Online?contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages, making ECCO the premier and irreplaceable resource for eighteenth-century research. An archive of all printed matter published in 18th century England and its colonies. |
Everyday life and women in America, c1800-1920
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| Purpose | Overseas articles | Language | English |
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| Subject | Social Sciences | ||
| Description | Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Social Sciences |
| Description | Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Early English Books Online(EEBO)
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal | Language | English |
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| Subject | Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Sociology / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Social Sciences | ||
| Description | Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English from 1473-1700. | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Sociology / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Social Sciences |
| Description | Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English from 1473-1700. |
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Newspaper articles / News / Law / Case / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal / Others | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Sociology / Education | ||
| Description | This database contains virtually every books, Bible, sermons, poetry, novels, speeches, textbooks, cooking recipes, maps, advertisements, catalogs, contracts, laws, opera, travel books published in America over a 160-year period.
In addition to English, it also includes material in German, French, and Algonquin, the language of the Native Americans. * |
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| User Guide | https://www.bunsei.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/PDF/Readex_Evans_manual.pdf | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Newspaper articles / News / Law / Case / Electronic Book / Electronic Journal / Others |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Sociology / Education |
| Description | This database contains virtually every books, Bible, sermons, poetry, novels, speeches, textbooks, cooking recipes, maps, advertisements, catalogs, contracts, laws, opera, travel books published in America over a 160-year period.
In addition to English, it also includes material in German, French, and Algonquin, the language of the Native Americans. * |
| User Guide | https://www.bunsei.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/PDF/Readex_Evans_manual.pdf |
EBSCOhost
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| Purpose | Useful Databases / Overseas articles | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | General / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Bibliography / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Statistics / Sociology / Education / Environment / Natural Science / Mathematics / Physics / Chemistry / Medicine / Nursing / Engineering / Electricity | ||
| Description | EBSCOhost is a online databases accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, and economics so on. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Useful Databases / Overseas articles |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | General / Humanities / Philosophy / Religion / Psychology / History / Arts / Languages / Literature / Bibliography / Social Sciences / Political Science / Law / Economics / Business / Statistics / Sociology / Education / Environment / Natural Science / Mathematics / Physics / Chemistry / Medicine / Nursing / Engineering / Electricity |
| Description | EBSCOhost is a online databases accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, and economics so on. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
EconLit(EBSCOhost)
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| Purpose | Overseas articles / Cooperate and Organization | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Economics / Business / Statistics | ||
| Description | EconLit?It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles / Cooperate and Organization |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Economics / Business / Statistics |
| Description | EconLit?It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |
ERIC（EBSCOhost）
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| Purpose | Overseas articles | Language | Mainly English |
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| Subject | Education | ||
| Description | ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. | ||
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US | ||
| Purpose | Overseas articles |
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| Language | Mainly English |
| Subject | Education |
| Description | ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. |
| User Guide | https://connect.ebsco.com/s/?language=en_US |