About CiNii - About CiNii Articles

About CiNii Articles

CiNii Articles is a database service which can search of information on academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database and databases.

It also contains a large number of articles that are available free of charge, and the search function can be used without registering. In viewing paid content, special rates and other privileges are offered to institutional fixed-price users (registration by institution) or users with an ID (individual registration).

Author-search service has been available experimentally since April 2010, and we are working toward a better service.

For more details on the usage, please visit CiNii Articles Help.

CiNii Articles' three major features

  • Large volume of article information

    CiNii incorporates 15 million articles. Articles from different databases that have duplicate information are displayed as a single article.

  • Access to full text documents

    Access to full text documents is possible with 3.7 million of the 15 million articles currently available on CiNii.
    CCiNii enables you to search desired articles and obtain the full text of the article. Cooperation with other services is advanced. Even when there is no article in CiNii, we have links available to cooperation service , and are keeping improving to be able to reach more articles.

  • Displays citation information

    Based on this citation information (References / Cited by), users can track down related articles.

※Numbers of records are the data as of Oct. 2011.

Data making of CiNii Articles

By the following structure, CiNii Articles collects a data and offers it.

The data of CiNii Articles is updated at every weekend.

CiNiiの全体図(概念図)

Databases incorporated

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