• E-journals that need an ID/Password have an indication of “ID/PW.” Please confirm the ID and password on the following page. ☛【ID/Password List】– Limited use on campus
• Please see the following page about remote access from off campus.
  【☛How to use e-resources from off campus】

 

【1】E-Journals

Kanazawa University has the following e-journals as packages.

Please note that some titles are not included in the packages (contract titles) and may not be available.
　※Please look up titles of individual services in the E-Journal Portal.

Cambridge Journals
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Full texts of academic journals in all fields published by Cambridge University Press. About 330 titles are available.
CiNii Research
Discipline	All fields
Contents	E-library service in Japan, provided by the National Institute of Informatics (NII).
Oxford Journals
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Full texts of almost all titles published by Oxford University Press. <Before 1995: NII-REO Oxford University Press Archive Collection>
Science DirectMendeley Institutional Edition
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Full texts of almost all titles of academic journals published by Elsevier (the Freedom Collection and Complete Collection). Available from circa 1998 up to the present. Back catalog available through 1994. [→Mendeley User GUIDE]
SpringerLink
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Full texts of almost all titles of academic journals published by Springer (including titles formerly published by Kluwer). The first issues up to the latest are available. About 500 titles from 2009 have been added, and body texts starting from 1997 are available.
Wiley Online Library
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Full texts of almost all titles of academic journals published by Wiley. Available from 1997 to the present. Angewandte Chemie International Edition (from 1962 to 1997) has also been introduced.
Nikkei BP article search service
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Full texts from almost all titles of magazines published by Nikkei BP. You can download full texts up to 1,000 times a month; when you exceed this limit, you will have to wait until the next month. New entries to “Nikkei Business” will be posted on the same day, “Nikkei Health” in a month, and the rest in a week.
PsycARTICLESID・Password
Discipline	Psychology
Contents	E-journals published by the American Psychological Association. Full texts of 90 journals are available.
JSTOR
Discipline	Humanities
Contents	A site containing back issues of core journals in each field. Introduced Arts & Sciences I Collection.
Nature
Discipline	Natural science
Contents	Full texts of Nature and Nature-related journals (from 1987 to the present.) Scientific American (from 1845 to 2005) has become available.
Science Online
Discipline	Natural science
Contents	An online version of the journal Science. Those published from 1997 to the present are available. Science Classic has been introduced. (Science Express has not been added.)
J-STAGEFree
Discipline	Science and technology
Contents	Integrated technological information transmission and distribution system. This is an online journal collection from academic societies and associations in Japan.
APS (American Physical Society)
Discipline	Physics
Contents	E-journals published by the American Physical Society (APS). Full texts of the following journals are available: Physical Review A-E, Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) back issues
AIP Complete(American Institute of Physics)
Discipline	Applied physics
Contents	E-journals published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
IOP(Institute of Physics)[Available periodicals]
Discipline	Physics
Contents	E-journals published by the Institute of Physics (IOP).
ACS (American Chemical Society)
Discipline	Chemistry
Contents	All e-journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS); 41 titles including those to which Kanazawa University subscribes, from the first issues to the latest.
GeoScience World＋GeoRef
Discipline	Earth science
Contents	A package of e-journals on Earth Science published by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), American Geological Institute (AGI), Geological Society of America (GSA), The Geological Society of London (GSL), Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) A total of 40 journals are available. You can use the GeoRef on the same site.
LWW　Fixed50
Discipline	Medicine
Contents	E-journals published by LWW. Full texts of 50 medical journals are available.   ■Until March 17, 2024: Free online access to e-journals is provided for areas affected by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024 → Details Please access from within the university using the following methods. ・Click [Jumpstart] in the L column of the viewable journal list.
Medical Online (メディカルオンライン)[Available periodicals]
Discipline	Medicine
Contents	Look up and read medical journals published in Japan. Guidelines are also available to browse.
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Discipline	Civil engineering
Contents	E-journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Full texts of all 34 journals are available.
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Discipline	Mechanical engineering
Contents	E-journals published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Full texts of 25 journals are available. Applied Mechanics Reviews is not included.
JoVE Journal: Neuroscience・Biology(※)
Discipline	Neuroscience・Biology
Contents	Two section of Journal of Visualized Experiences. Videos of experimental methods and techniques are available. (※)Biology section is available with a time limit (until December 31, 2022).

【2】E-Books

※Please look up titles of individual services in the E-Book Portal.

Springer eBook (SpringerLink)
Discipline	Earth & Environmental Science, Computer Science
Contents	Earth & Environmental Science (2013) and Computer Science (2005-2012) are available.
Maruzen eBook Library
Discipline	All fields
Contents	E-book collections published by domestic publishing companies. [Available titles] – You are able to read these from off campus if you use the remote access function. [User manual. (Attention)]   ■Until the end of June 2024: Provide content from publishers that support the purpose to contracted organizations in areas affected by the 2020 Noto Peninsula Earthquake (number of simultaneous accesses: 1) 　➢ There is no viewing time setting. Downloading and printing PDF files will be set to “Disabled”. 　➢ Since the trial reading setting function is used, the on-screen display will show a “Preview” button instead of “Browse”. 　➢ Contents from each company that will be newly distributed during the target period will not be targeted, but the content that was distributed at the time of setup will be targeted.
ProQuest Ebook Central
Discipline	General (Humanities, sociology, science and engineering, medicine)
Contents	Platform for using e-books published abroad [User manual (Japanese text only)]
Science Direct Books (Elsevier)
Discipline	All fields
Contents	Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2011) and Methods in Enzymology (2007-) are available.
Wiley Online Library
Discipline	All fields
Contents	E-books published by Wiley

Two ways are available to use e-resources to which Kanazawa University subscribes from off campus.

Please note some e-resources are not available off campus.

1.  Through GakuNin Service (Shibboleth Authentication)

GakuNin service enables on-campus Single Sign-On (the mechanism where a single ID and password permit a user to access e-journals and databases which Kanazawa University subscribes.) It will also create an environment from where a user can access other university and commercial services. A Kanazawa University ID is necessary for login. 

Not all e-resources support the GakuNin Service.

Please see the following site for details.
<GakuNin official site>　https://www.gakunin.jp/

<About GakuNin by Emerging Media Initiative (in Japanese)> http://www.imc.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/service/gakunin

 

2. Through VPN・KAINS-Desktop（Remote Desktop Services）

　　            

Please see KAINS-VPN(Emerging Media Initiative, Kanazawa University) for details.

You can connect a VPN with a Kanazawa University Network ID.

Please use VPNGW 02 for e-journals and databases.

　
< About network IDs (in Japanese) ネットワークIDについて（学術メディア創成センター）>
<An example of VPNGW02 access (in Japanese)> vpngw02.pdf