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Conducting online research

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UTokyo OPAC
*The system for searching the online union catalog database of books and journals held in the UTokyo. It can be used to search all journals as well as books acquired by the UTokyo in 1986 and after.
EBSCOhost
*E-databases of UTokyo. A platform where you can search multiple databases. We recommend you to use it when you want to search for books, journal articles, reviews, or various other media.
CiNii
*A database service which can be searched with academic information of articles, books, journals and dissertations. It enables you to search not only information on academic articles but also a lot of information related to research activities such as research data and project information.
JSTOR
*A digital library provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
J-STAGE
*A platform for scholarly publications in Japan. Titles on J-STAGE cover a wide variety of academic fields, from natural sciences to humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary areas.
Google Scholar
*It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From here, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Google Books
*Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. (Full access to E-books are only available to some.)
Others : Database List (University of Tokyo Library System)

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary
*The definitive record of the English language, featuring 600000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1000 years of English.