CiNii : articles

This is a combined resource of the two : CiNii Articles and CiNii Books. CiNii Articles is a database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. Search methods includes 'Searching full-text and the information on citation and reference also are shown for relevant articles. Cinii Books searches books in academic libraries in Japan. On Cinii Articles, basic features are open to public for free and it includes some full-text articles. For those who use this at a registered institutions (with subscription fee paid) can view references and citation index to some journals, mainly STEM (=Science, Technology, Engineering, Medical) journals. and also some additional full-text articles. Some other full-text articles can be acquired by those individuals who are ready to pay extra per articles, but it is also only for some selected articles.