Search for bibliographies

Entering search terms Executing search Reference history Bookmark Message

Two search modes are available: Standard mode and Expert mode.
Standard mode has some search items and Expert mode has all search items.
Click the links to switch between Standard mode and Expert mode.

Search items in Standard mode are as follows:

Title (title of books, serials, and series)
Author (name of author, editor, and translator)
Publisher (publisher)
Key words (keywords)
Published year (year of publication)
File (type of material)
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)

Search items in Expert mode are as follows:

Title (title of books, serials, and series)
Author (name of author, editor, and translator)
Publisher (publisher)
Key words (keywords)
Published place (place of publication)
Published year (year of publication)
File (type of material)
Subject (subject)
Classification (classification)
Code (publication code)
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
Country code (country of publication)
Language code (language of title or text)
ID (bibliographical ID)
Registered No. (registered number)
Material ID (material ID)
Call No. (call number)
Area (holding library)
Section (holding section)
Location (holding location)
Material forms (physical form)

Enter information (search terms) about the bibliographies in search items, or select any down-arrow button from drop-down menus.

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" in the title:

Title

Boolean search

When you enter search terms in two or more search items, two Boolean searches are avalable:

Boolean "AND" operator search: enter search terms ordinarily.
Boolean "NOT" operator search: put "^"(hat) at the head of search terms.

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" in the title and containing "Fujitsu" in the name of the author:

Title
Author

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" in the title and not containing "Fujitsu" in the name of the author:

Titile
Author

Note: In Boolean "NOT" operator search you must enter search terms not putting "^"(hat) in at least one search item.

When you enter two or more search terms in one search item, three Boolean searches are available:

Boolean "AND" operator search: connect search terms by " " (blank).
Boolean "OR" operator search: connect search terms by "+" (plus).
Boolean "NOT" operator search: connect search terms by "^" (hat).

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" and "U.S.A" in the title:

Title

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" or "U.S.A." in the title:

Title

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" and not containing "U.S.A." in the title:

Title

Note: In Boolean "NOT" operator search you must enter search terms not putting "^"(hat) in at least one search item.

Primary search items and secondary search items

The following items are primary search items. You can execute search only by any primary search items.

Title (title of books, serials, and series)
Author (name of author, editor, and translator)
Publisher (publisher)
Subject (subject)
Key words (keywords)
Classification (classification)
Code (publication code)
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
ID (bibliographical ID)
Registered No. (registered number)
Material ID (material ID)
Call No. (call number)

The following items are secondary search items. You must combine secondary search items with at least one primary search item.

Published place (place of publication)
Published year (year of publication)
Country code (country of publication)
Language code (language of title or text)
File (type of material)
Area (holding library)
Section (holding section)
Location (holding location)
Material forms (physical form)

Keyword search and letter search

Keyword search

Search for the materials containing search terms as keywords.

Letter search

Search for the materials containing search terms as mere letters.

Example: if you search for the materials containing "and" in the title:

Title

Keyword search:	The king and I
Letter search:	Cassandra of Troy

In Letter search the following operations are available:

Perfect match:	enter search termsonly.	and
First part match:	put "" after* search terms.	Andes
Middle part match:	put "" before and after* search terms.	Cassandra
Last part match:	put "" before* search terms.	Poland
Any part match:	put "" between* search terms.	Almond

Keyword search items are as follows:

Title (title of books, serials, and series)
Author (name of author, editor, and translator)
Publisher (publisher)
Published place (place of publication)
Subject (subject)
Key words (keywords)
ID (bibliographical ID)
File (type of material)

When you execute Letter search by Keyword search items, you must put "#" at the head of search terms.

Letter search items are as follows:

Published year (year of publication)
Classification (classification)
Code (publication code)
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
Country code (country of publication)
Language code (language of title or text)
Registered No. (registered number)
Material ID (material ID)
Call No. (call number)

Example: if you search for the materials containing "Japan" in the title:

Title

Example: if you search for the materials that the title is "Japan":

Title

Example: if you search for the materials that the title ends with "Japan":

Title

Example: if you search for the materials published in the "1900s":

Publised year

Sorting list of bibliographies

Specify sort key and/or sort direction to sort list of bibliographies.
Note: in search only by "Registered No." or "Material ID" or "Call No.", you cannot sort the list of bibliographies.

Sort key

The following search items are specifiable as sort key. According to the primary sort key, the secondary sort key is determined automatically.

Specifiable items (primary sort key)		Secondary sort key
Title		Author
Author		Title
Publisher		Author
Year		Author
Place		Author
Classification		Author

Sort direction

Two sort orders are available: Ascendant (ASC) order and Descendant (DESC) order. The sort order of the secondary sort key depends on the primary sort key.

Thesaurus search

Check the checkboxes ( Synonym Broaden Narrow ) to execute Thesaurus search. You can check two or more checkboxes at a time.
Which search items can be used in Thesaurus search depends on the system.
Note: You cannot execute Thesaurus search on NII (National Institute of Informatics).

Executing search

Enter search terms, then click the button. Wait a moment, and List of bibliographies is displayed.

Click the button to clear the search terms.
Note: It is returned in the condition immediately after it is called when it transits from Reference history.

Reference history

Click the button and Reference history is displayed.

Bookmark

The bibliography referred to can be kept. The bibliography kept later can be referred to. The thing that a bibliography list is kept is said as "Bookmark". A reference, a clearance can be done toward bookmark.

The bibliography list kept in bookmark is indicated. Bibliographical details is displayed when number of bibliogr aphy kept is one.

All bibliographies are removed from bookmark.

The number which can be registerd is restricted with the system.

Message

Conditions for the search has not been entered. Please enter conditions and search again.

The above message is displayed when conditions for the search has not been entered and the [search] button is clicked.

Please enter conditions and search again.

The bibliography could not be found.

The above message is displayed when there are no bibliographies matched the entered conditions.

Please change the conditions and search again.

Cannot execute the search by the entered conditions. Please add additional conditions for the search and search again.

The above message is displayed when you enter search terms only in secondary search items and search.

Please enter search terms in at least one primary search item and search again.

The number of search results exceeded * *. Please add additional conditions for the search and search again.

The above message is displayed when the number of search results exceeds the number limited by the system.

Please add additional conditions for the search and search again.

Reference history doesn't exist.

The above message is displayed when a "R. history" button is pushed when it is never being reference after browser is started.

It can't be used if it is not after a reference is done.

Bookmark doesn't exist.

The above message is displayed when a "show" button is pushed when there is no saved bookmark.

It can't be used if there is no bookmark.

It is A cases that can be registered in bookmark. Because B cases have been registered at present, specified bibliographies can't be registered.

The above message is displayed when it tries to register beyond the number of the maximums which can be registered as bookmark.

It can't be added to bookmark.

Cannot connect with the server. Please wait a moment and then execute again.

The above message is displayed when you cannot connect with the OPAC server due to too many accesses.

Please wait a moment and then search again.

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The above message is displayed when the OPAC server has some trouble.

Please wait a moment and then search again.

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The above message is displayed when it takes too much time to communicate with the server and the connection has timed out.

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	The bibliography list kept in bookmark is indicated. Bibliographical details is displayed when number of bibliogr aphy kept is one.
	All bibliographies are removed from bookmark.