Japan Studies: Getting the Most of CiNii Articles NII論文情報ナビゲータ: Searching

You will find the following pages:

About: What is the CiNii Article Database NII 論文情報ナビゲータ?

Searching: How to search the NII CiNii Articles Database: Simple Search & Advance Search

Search Tips: Keyword combinations and Boolean operators within the CiNii Articles Database

Boolean Operators page helps you understand how the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) works. Outside Link

 Access to the Database http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ja (Japanese) OR  http://ci.nii.ac.jp/en (English)

Use Only: Japanese for Japanese language articles and English for English language articles or search in English language abstracts if they are provided.

3 search tabs

1. Article Search: keyword search for articles

2. Author Search: keyword search for author names

3. Full Text Search: search in full texts by keywords (beta version) 

Simple Search

Keyword field

• Multiple keywords separated by spaces (both English half-width spaces and Japanese full-width spaces are acceptable) search terms combined "AND".
  Example: keywords ハワイ　観光 search "ハワイ AND 観光"
• If numbers (numeric characters) are used as keywords, either both English single-byte characters and Japanese double-byte characters are acceptable

Click on Advanced Link 詳細検索 for more search options.

Search by keyword/author/affiliation/article title/publication name/ISSN/volume/issue/page/publisher/references

Search field

• Select the category you wish to specify for the search field (keyword/author/affiliation/article title/publication name/ISSN/volume/issue/page/publisher/works cited).
• Selecting "keyword" returns the same results as a simple search.
• ISSN/volume/issue/page accepts only numeric characters.
• Specifying "references" enables you to search for papers with works cited that include keywords in the titles, etc.