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Quick guide<Keyword Search>
CiNii Dissertations allows you to search, in a centralised way, Japanese doctoral
dissertations held and digitised by the National Diet Library, as well as the doctoral
dissertations held by each university’s institutional repository.
●Features●
Searches can be performed on an exhaustive collection of dissertations.
Through joint collaborations, we also provide links to navigate to other services.
CiNii provides Web API (Application Program Interface) for system linkages.

CiNii Dissertations top page
Simple Search【A-1】

Searches can be performed easily by inputting
keywords. Searches target registered information
like the title, note and description, author,
university, grant ID, types of degree, degree year.
【A-1】 Searches can be refined.
"All " ⇒ all dissertations are searched.
“Full-text exists” ⇒searches for full text
documents.

Advanced Search【B-1】

Clicking “Advanced Search” displays theadvanced search input field.
With the advanced search, desired searchedcategories can be specified.
【B-1】 There are input fields for title, author, grantID, university, etc.
Additionally,multiple
conditional
searchrelationships (logic operators) can be used.

•◆Search technique◆No distinction is made between numbers, upper- or lowercase letters,• Japanese full-width or English half-width characters.
Searches using OR or NOT between categories cannot be performed.

Tip <Dissertations> <author>
icons•【Search using “AND”】•Search for records containing all entered keywords. Specify using spaces (English half-width spaces or Japanese full-width spaces) or“__&__” (where __ is a space, as in the example below).
•Example: Inputting "information digital" or "information & digital" returns search results for records containing both "information" and"digital"•【Search using “OR”】•Search for records containing any of the entered keywords. Specify using “__OR__”(OR must be written in English half-width,
uppercase characters) or “__|__” (where __ is a space, as in the example below.)•Example: Inputting "information OR digital" or "information | digital" returns search results for records containing either"information" or "digital" or both.
•【Search using “NOT”】•Search for records containing the entered keyword(s) but excluding the keyword after NOT. Specify using “__NOT__”(NOT must be written in English half-width , uppercase characters) or add “__-“ (where __ is a space and – is an
English half-width hyphen) after the main keyword(s) but before the term to be excluded.
•Example: Inputting "information NOT digital" or "information -digital" returns search results for records containing
1"information", excluding those records that contain "digital".

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Quick guide < Search results >Article search results list
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【C-1】When a keyword is added, it ispossible to further refine the search.
【C-2】You can choose to output thesearch results by opening a new windowor showing "Refer/BibIX".
【C-3】The number of articles displayed
per page can be set to 20, 50, 100, or200. Additionally, the sorting order can beset
using
theyearofpublication(ascending/descending)andtitle(ascending/descending/relevance),.
【C-4】Clicking the title takes you to thedetails page.
【C-5】Author, university, grant ID, types ofdegree and degree year are displayed.

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Details display page

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【D-10】【D-5】【D-1】Title, author and the transcription of
the author are displayed in JapaneseKana.
【D-2】Orange button is displayed when
the dissertation is hosted by Institutional
Repository or NDL Digital Collections.
【D-3】University, grant ID and types ofdegree are displayed.
【D-4】Note and Description are displayed.
【D-5】Table of Contents are displayed.
【D-6】Access times for full-text link isdisplayed.
【D-7】Information of the dissertation canbe shared on Facebook and Twitter.
【D-8】An image of the dissertation isdisplayed when available.
【D-9】The following details are displayed:
DOI,
text
language
code,
NDL
Bibliographic ID, etc.
【D-10】Bibliography information for thearticle is written in "Refer/BibIX","BibTex", and "Tab Separated Values(TSV)" formats.
【D-11】You can report a problem fromhere.

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Quick guide < Outside cooperation >Outside sponsor interfaces※For specification details please see the CiNii help pageOpenSearch
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Using OpenSearch【E-1】By creating an OpenSearch
query and registering it to an RSS
reader, you will be able to easily
obtain the latest information ofarticles in the field of interest. TheOpenSearch query format is asfollows:
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/d/search?(parameter=value)&....
【E-2】Search for articles without
accessing the top page of CiNii byselecting "CiNii OpenSearch" on thebrowser search bar and entering
keywords.

The big picture / Inquiries
CiNii Dissertations identifies andintegrates exhaustive collection ofdissertations.
We hope to continue to improve ourservice so that our users can
comfortably navigate our site andlocate the resources they need.
◆Inquiries◆
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