Previously, Xiaoyuan introduced to you how to write a research plan. Among them, he mentioned that most of the opinions in the full text of the plan need to be based on evidence, and that two points are to search for prior research, which may be difficult for those who are just g

As soon as I sat down on the chair, turned on the computer, rolled up my sleeves, put my hands on the keyboard... I started to be in a daze.

"How to search the literature of the research plan?"

Before, Xiaoyuan introduced to everyone how to write a research plan. Among them, he mentioned that most of the opinions in the full text of the plan need to be based on two points, as well as searching for preliminary research. It will be difficult for those who are just getting started.

Don’t worry, today Xiaoyuan will introduce to you, , a library commonly used in writing research proposals, monk thesis, and department theses in Japan, so that you will no longer have to worry about searching for literature.

CiNII

https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ja

CiNii (National Institute of Informatics, referred to as NII) is by far Japan's largest, free and open, comprehensive academic information database. The platform consists of 3 branch databases Composition:

☑️ "CiNii Article" (日本のpaperをさがす) includes journal articles and university journal articles from various Japanese academic institutions and groups, and can be retrieved from the "Japanese Journal Index Database" of the Library of Congress Included papers. There are many indexed documents and a considerable number of full-text documents, which can show the citations and citations between papers. Among them, some papers are published in English or other languages.

☑️"CiNii Books" (University Library's の本をさがす) can search bibliographic information of books and periodicals in the collections of various university libraries in Japan.

☑️ "CiNii Dissertations" (日本のdoctoral dissertation をさがす) can search theses awarded by Japanese universities and degree-granting institutions for doctoral degrees, which also includes some public links to the full text of the papers.

The search methods of each platform are basically the same. When searching, if there are multiple keywords, just leave a space in the middle, but do not enter too many keywords at once.

For example: "ドキュメント72时日本" will be able to find relevant literature~

Then in the search results, if you see the option of "J-STAGE" or "Mechanism リポジトリ", it means that you can download the literature online. If you click If only "NDL ONLINE" is displayed inside the article, jump to part 3~

J-STAGE

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/-char/ja

Who is J-STAGE?

☑️ It is Japan’s largest comprehensive platform for scientific information electronic journals.

☑️ is developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). By providing an online publishing platform, J-STAGE supports Japanese societies and research organizations and publishes more than 3,000 journals, conference proceedings, and other academic publications at low cost and at high speed.

☑️And most of the results found can be downloaded directly for free. It is a good platform for reading literature at home.

National Library of Congress

https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp

Finally, the National Library is where every international student preparing to write a paper for graduate school will go.

The National Diet Library of Japan (National Diet Library) has dual functions. It is both the National Library of Japan and the Library of the National Diet. The library is the only library in Japan that legally accepts deposited copies. It is said that the National Library collects all official publications on the market in Japan.

The only pity is that all books and documents can only be read in the library, and there is no loan function (because many books only have this one volume, it is also designed to facilitate more users and have more opportunities to check these books) determined).

The National Library is divided into two parts: online and offline. Generally speaking, you will check online in advance whether the documents or books you want are stored in the National Library. If you are sure that they are, you can I went to the library in a hurry~

The nearest stations to the library are of the "Hanzomon Line", "Namboku Line", "Yurakucho Line", "Nagatacho Station" , and of the "Marunouchi Line" and "Chiyoda Line" " Diet Hall Front Station " . The normal usage hours of the museum are from 9:30 to 19:00 on weekdays and from 9:30 to 17:00 on weekends. No reservation is required to enter the museum.

But! Focus on it! During the current epidemic period, the number of people entering the library every day is limited, so a lottery admission system is adopted. Please be sure to ensure that you are qualified for admission before going to the library.

Application address:

https://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/news/fy2020/200601_01.html

The use of the National Library requires users to log in, bring their residence card, and spare about 30 minutes. Go to the first floor of the new building to register, and you will get a "registered user card" which is very important in the building. For a more detailed process, please refer to Xiao Yuan’s previous on-site exploration ( National Library of Congress Unblocking Services ).

Then some friends want to ask, since you can’t lend it out, what should you do if your reading speed is really slow and you can’t finish taking notes? Although the library also has a cafeteria, you can't sit there every day.

Taking this demand into account and in order to maintain library operations, the National Library provides copying services.

(Looks like no applause is needed here)

The library has a very detailed introduction on how to apply for copy service. If you don’t understand, you can always ask the service staff in the library. Just note that the copying service ends one hour earlier than the closing time. Don’t get lost in the sea of ​​knowledge and forget to apply for copying.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com

Google Scholar is a online search engine that can search academic articles for free. It indexes the format and subjects of text in published articles, and can help users find journal articles, dissertations, books, and preliminaries. Academic documents, including hard copies, abstracts and technical reports, covering natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and other disciplines.

You can find literature in various languages ​​in Google Scholar . It also provides jumps to CNKI , CiNii and various English literature websites. Of course, some of them can be viewed directly online.

OPACシステム

The last thing I want to mention is the online search system of each university's internal library.

Each school will have its own collection of books. If there is an agreement between schools, they can also call each other's collections. In addition, each school can generally directly see some past graduation thesis, which are also very important references.

Because this is generally limited to students within the university or graduate students, if you want to use it, you may need to contact your seniors who are already in school to borrow an account.

The above five methods basically cover the sources of most references when writing research proposals and papers. Friends who are preparing to write proposals, hurry up and mark them to check.

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