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Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts

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...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics / History

Database produced by National Institute of Japanese Literature (NUL) including 600,000 bibliographic information and images of about 80,000 pre-modern Japanese books collected by NIJL and other organizations.

Kokubungaku ronbun mokuroku database

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...1912-

...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes

...Literature and Linguistics / History

Bibliographic database of books and articles on Japanese literature since 1912, maintained by the National Institute of Japanese Literature.

The archive Takita Choin kyuzou kindai sakka genkoushu [Web-ver. Nihon Kindai Bungakukan]

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...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics

This database contains 213 literary works from the collection of Takita Choin, a former editor of the journal "Chuo koron".

Title List (jpn)

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Dazai Osamu Manuscripts Online

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...Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics

This database contains a total of 34 items in 3417 pages of Dazai's writing, in 22 manuscripts and drafts penned personally by him, plus fragments of draft text and notes, all held by the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature. Added to these are a further 21 pieces of invaluable resource material, including journals, notebooks, textbooks etc. from Dazai's years at the former Aomori Middle School and Hirosaki High School, gifted recently, in April 2013.
User guide (jpn)［J-DAC］

Waka Renga Haikai Library [Nihon Bungaku Web Toshokan ]

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...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes

...Literature and Linguistics

Waka Renga Haikai Library includes the following contents.

Shinpen Kokka Taikan
Shinpen Shikashu Taisei
Kasho Shusei
Koten Haibungaku Taikei
Renga Taikan

How to use:

1) Visit: http://www.kotenlibrary.com/download/toshokan/

2) Click: [ダウンロードまたはアプリケーションの起動（図書館用）]

3) Download and install the viewing software.

4) Click [和歌・連歌・俳諧ライブラリー] button on the top page「日本文学Web図書館」.

　*After you download the file to your computer, you will be able to use the database simply going to the application.

Operating Environment:

OS: Windows Windows 8 (Desktop mode)、Windows 10, Windows 11
This is only supported with Microsoft .Net Framework4.6 and later.

Only available from on-campus. The methods to connect to the network(limited on-campus) from Off-campus

The Bible in English [provided by Graduate School of Letters]

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...Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics

This database contains twenty versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century.

British Literary Manuscripts Online [Gale]

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...12C-19C

...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics / History

This database presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. This database is published in two parts.

CNKI: China Naitonal Knowledge Infrastructure [provided by Graduate School of Letters, Institute for Research in Humanities and Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies]

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...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics / History

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) is a key national project of China. Its purpose is knowledge sharing throughout China and the world. From its beginning in June, 1996, the global reach of CNKI full-text databases has grown substantially.
User Guide (Simplified Ch)　User Guide (Traditional Ch)　User Guide (En)

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online

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...Dictionaries and Encyclopedias / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Comprised of the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography series, which over its 30-year history has been dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

v. 1-372 are also available on Literature Resource Center.

Eighteenth Century Drama : Censorship, Society and the Stage [Adam Matthew] [provided by Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies]

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...Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics / History

To access this database via the new authentication system, click here.

John Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library - a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824.

Eighteenth Century Drama : Censorship, Society and the Stage [Adam Matthew]

Gale Literature [Gale]

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...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics

Gale Literature is a search portal provided by Gale that allows users to search Gale literary databases at once, including:

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Literature Resource Center
Scribner Writers on GVRL
Twayne's Authors on GVRL

Guide (Jpn) [Cengage Learning Gale]

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic printing in Baghdad online [Brill] [provided by Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies]

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...Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics / History

The world’s foremost private collection of early and rare Hebraica housed in the Valmadonna Trust Library is the basis for this collection. It comprises a resource for the study of oriental printing, Hebrew liturgical history, Judeo-Arabic literature, and the history and culture of the most ancient Jewish Diaspora community. All of these bibliographic treasures are reproduced here for the first time.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts [ProQuest]

...1973-

...Monthly

...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes

...Literature and Linguistics

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

Product Summary　Serials Source List

Literature Resource Center [Gale]

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...Dictionaries and Encyclopedias / Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics

Literature Resource Center (by Gale Cengage Learning) offers Full-text journal articles (300 Journals), literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Dictionary of Literary Biography from v.373 onward is available on Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online.

MLA International Bibliography [EBSCO]

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...Bibliographic datas, Abstracts, Indexes

...Literature and Linguistics

The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present.

Description by MLA

Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online)

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...Dictionaries and Encyclopedias / Full-text databases

...General - Whole Field / Literature and Linguistics

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Comprehensive dictionary of the English language.
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words in English from current usage to past usage.
Updated quarterly.

About:
https://public.oed.com/about/

How to use the OED:
https://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/

The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection

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...Video and Audio

...Literature and Linguistics

A video collection of contemporary Shakespeare productions. Includes subtitles, transcripts, making, stills, and teacher packs .

Shakespeare in Performance : Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library [Adam Matthew] [provided by Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies]

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...Full-text databases

...Literature and Linguistics / History

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World-famous prompt book collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library.