Searching Articles

This page shows you how to search articles by type or by other ways.
Please feel free to inquire to the following contact if you have any questions about this page.

Reference Desk(1F)
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.(Weekdays)

Searching Tools by article type

This is the article database list for life sciences. We list up appropriate databases by type or subject.
If you would like to know which database meets your purpose or how to use each database, please ask staff at Reference Desk(1F).

Databases which have R are available off-campus.

• Osaka University Personal ID and password is required to use it.

  Plrease check the following page What's the Osaka University Personal ID about Osaka University Personal ID and password.

• When you end the remote access, please click the below button or close your browser to disconnect the authentication.

Purpose	database		subject/details
Searching journal articles	MEDLINE：OvidR	Off-Campus Access	Medicine/Dentistry/Nursing
	PubMedR (access for Osaka Univ.)	Off-Campus Access
	ICHUSHI WebR	Off-Campus Access	Medicine/Dentistry/Nursing (Japanese journals)
	Cochrane LibraryR	Off-Campus Access	Clinical Medicine/EBM/Systematic Review
	CINAHLR	Off-Campus Access	Nursing
	PsycINFO		Psychology *Before using PsycINFO, you need to get ID and Password. Please see this page.
	SocINDEXR	Off-Campus Access	Sociology
	ERICR	Off-Campus Access	Education
	JDreamIII		Science and Technology
	ScopusR	Off-Campus Access	Science and Technology/Medicine/Sociology
	CiNii ResearchR	Off-Campus Access	All subjects(for Japanese journals)
	Zassaku Plus(Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei)R	Off-Campus Access	All subjects(for Japanese journals)
Searching citations/ Checking how many times the article is cited	Web of ScienceR	Off-Campus Access	Science Citation Index (1900-) Social Sciences Citation Index(1956-) Art & Humanities Citation Index(1975-)
Assessing scholarly journals	JCR(Journal Citation Reports)R	Off-Campus Access	Impact factors etc.
Searching Research by Grants-in-Aid	MHLW Grants system(Free)		Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
	KAKEN(Free)		Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research・・inistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Our Collection of journals published from Meiji Period to Early Showa Period

These are title lists of our old journal colleciton (Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences), which were published (or have been published) from Meiji Period to Showa Period. You can use thiese lists for researching old time.
*These lists are Japanese only.

Our Collection of journals published from Meiji Period to Early Showa Period
Meiji Period
Taisho Period
Journals related to Osaka