Search method

Search screen

Simple search

• A title, author, etc. can search all the items.
• Click the icons of the external database (CiNii Articles, CiNii Books, CiNii Dissertations, JAIRO), so you can take over the term.

Advanced search

• Title, Full title, Author, Publisher, Publication Year, Subject, etc. can search the items.
  It is possible to also search by multiple items (AND search).
• Format, Japanese/Foreign, location can narrow down and search.
• ISBN can search by both of 13 digits and 10 digits.
• ISBN, ISSN returns the same search results with or without a hyphen.

The input of a search term

in the alphabet.

• Since a capital letter/small letter is not distinguished, you may input whichever.
• Since full width/half width is not distinguished, you may input whichever.
• Since articles (a, the, etc.) and prepositions (at, in, etc.) are excluded from search, even if it inputs and does not carry out, the same result returns.

AND search

Like "A△AND△B" (the following △ is a space), that in which A, B, and both are contained is searched by using "AND" (half-width capital letter) for a search word (since a space is also substituted for "AND", the search word "A△B" may be sufficient).

• Ex: Sun△AND△Energy

  "Sun" and "Energy", The thing containing both of words is the target of search, and it can expect the result of having agreed for the purpose of search more. A result is the same even if it searches with "Sun△Energy".

OR search

Like "A△OR△B" (the following △ is a space), that in which A or B is contained is searched by using "OR" (half-width capital letter) for a search word.

• Ex: Environment△OR△Ecology

  Not only the thing containing the word "Environment" but the thing containing only the word "Ecology" is the target of search, and it can expect few results of a leak more.

NOT search

Like "A△NOT△B" (the following △ is a space), B is excludable from the search results for A by using "NOT" (half-width capital letter) for a search word (since "-" is also substituted for "NOT"). The search word "A△-△B" may be sufficient.

• Ex: Capitalism△NOT△Communism

  The thing about "Communism" can be excepted from the search results for the word "Capitalism", and the result of having agreed for the purpose of search more can be expected.

Phrase search

If two or more search terms are surrounded and searched with double quotation marks("), it can search as an idiom. When you search in Japanese, enter the phrase without spaces or quotation marks. Please note a single double quotation mark can not work correctly in a searching.

• Ex: "production control"

  If it refers only to production control, will perform the same search as production AND control, but If "production control" is inputted and it searches, it will refer to an idiom called production control.

Netes for input

An error occurs in the following cases.

• When double quotation marks"" or parentheses() are unclosed.
• When full and half width of double quotation marks or parentheses are mixed.