Library

The IDE Library boasts a wide selection of materials and resources to assist research dealing with the economics, politics and social issues of developing countries and regions in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, and East Europe.

【Open Hours】10:00~18:00

【TEL】 043-299-9716

【Closed】 2nd, 4th and 5th Saturdays / Sundays / Public holidays /
the last weekday of every month / the year end and New Year holiday season

10-minute walk from Kaihin Makuhari Station (JR Keiyo Line)

IDE Library

Finding Materials

Electronic Resources

Visitors to the library can use e-Journals and databases free of charge.
A photocopying service is chargeable.

Find e-journals by title or ISSN

Not all of the back issues can be available depending on which supplier we contracted and when.

Browse e-journals by title

To find a specific journal, use “A-Z Title List.” Journals are listed in alphabetical order.

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Search for the specific article by CitationLinker

If you have citation Information of specific journal article such as Journal title(or ISSN), Vol./No. and starting page or DOI, search with Citation Linker from the link below. It will navigate you to get full text seamlessly by Link options such as OPAC search, ILL Request, or search Open Access contents etc. when the fulltext is not available online.

Find databases

To find articles on a specific theme or by a specific author, search the publishers’ databases. You have access to table of contents and article abstracts even without the library’s subscription, and, to get the full-text of an article, use the interlibrary loan (ILL) service.

AllAfrica.com
AllAfrica.com is a website that collects and aggregates articles from African news organizations, as well as documents and releases from hundreds of governmental, nongovernmental and international institutions. You can access its searchiable archive containing over 5 million articles.

América Economía
Ecuadorian edition of América Economía, a magazine on Latin American economy founded in Chile, is available online.
*Only available on the specific PCs. Please inquire at the counter.

Archives Unbound
This program digitizes over 350 collections held by archives, government agencies, and universities’ libraries in US and UK. Following collections are available.

Area Studies: India
A vital resource for the study of the British Indian Empire and the history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712 to 1942.
It includes the official and personal papers of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, printed weekly abstracts compiled by the India Office, summarising both English- and Indian-language newspapers from British India and so on.

CNKI-CAJ(中国知网-中国期刊全文数据库)
CNKI-CAJ (China National Knowledge Infrastructure - China Academic Journal Full-text Data)provides the journal index of scholarly articles from 9,800 titles. You can also access to the full-text articles of all issues in the fields of (G) Politics / Military Affairs / Law, and (J) Economics & Management.
List of Journal titles for (G) Politics / Military Affairs / Law, & (J) Economics & Management. (Updated April 2021)

CNKI-CCND(中国知网-中国重要报纸)
CNKI-CCND (China Core Newspapers Full-text Database) provides the newspaper. You can also access to the articles in the fields of (G106)Chinese Communist Party.

DIÁRIO BRASIL NIPPOU
A newspaper in Japanese published in Brazil. Daily papers are available in PDF at the library.
*Only available on the specific PCs. Please inquire at the counter.

Econlit
Academic articles from about 300 economics journals can be searched.

EIU
EIU provides report, forecast and analysis articles of Economic Intelligence Unit.
*Only available on the specific PC. Please inquire at the counter.
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Estadão
Brazilian newspaper "Estado de S. Paulo" can be read from the first issue.
*Only available on the specific PCs. Please inquire at the counter.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports:Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996
This collection consists of translated news broadcasts and publications on the international reaction to apartheid from around the world. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), one of the Central Intelligence Agency's component, recorded and translated them.

Global Trade Atlas (GTA)
GTA is a trade statistics database covering 177 areas and countries provided by IHS Inc.

HeinOnline
This database provides the full text to more than 600 legal journals (mainly published in the United States).

IMF Data
International Financial Statistics (IFS) provide by IMF data is a standard source of statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance.
Approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries starting in 1948. Includes exchange rates, fund accounts and the main global and country economic indicators. Printed editions, and CD-ROM edition of IFS are also available in the library.

Ingenta Connect
This service provides the table of contents and full text of about 29,000 journals. In general, full text is available for a fee, but 50 journals to which the library subscribes are available for free. Articles written in 1988 and later can be searched.

JSTOR
About 700 humanities and social sciences journals are available from the first issue all the way to the last 1 or 5 years.
Please note that JSTOR does not provide the latest issues since it is an archive website. However, those journals to which the library separetly subscribes can be accessed all the way up to the latest issues on other websites. Please search journals by clicking on the first letter of the title under "Titles" above. You will see the link to the other websites if the latest issues are available.

KIOSKO Y MÁS
KIOSKO Y MÁS is a WEB service of newspapers and journals published in Spain and some Latin American countries. The IDE Library offers access to the following newspapers through this service.
Spain : El País  Spain : ABC
*Only available on the specific PCs. Please inquire at the counter.

La Tercera
Digital edition of La Tercera, a Chilean newspaper, is available.

NBER Working Papers
It provides bibliographic and full-text information of NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) working papers from the newest back to June 1973. Abstracts for papers published after 1993 may also be viewed. Some 700 working papers are published a year, and later, many of them appear in academic journals. You can limit searches by keyword, and by JEL classification code for papers published after 1991.

Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Handbooks Online is e-book version of the Oxford Handbooks, which offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. The following collections are available.
・Political Science:Foundation, 2016‐2023
・Economics and Finance:Foundation, 2016‐2023
・Law:Foundation, 2018‐2023
・Sociology:2019‐2023

Political Science Database
Political Science Database contains over 450 leading political science and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent, full-text, political science dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities and other sources such as EIU country reports.

PressReader
PressReader provides current issues of newspapers from all over the world (over 2000 titles) in the original form.

Science Direct
The full text of all back numbers (first issue to 1994) of the 16 Elsevier journals and 71 economic, econometric and financial journals is available. A full-text search can be performed on about 1,800 journals, and for journals to which the library is not subscribed the table of contents and abstracts can be browsed.

UN ComTrade
The United Nations Trade Statistics Database contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year.

Web of Science
Web of Science is a platform of leading academic journals, which is owned by Clarivate. It consists of multiple databases of journals and conference proceedings from 1980 in a variety of fields. This platform is useful for searching articles from many different academic disciplines and checking citation data.

Wiley Digital Archives: Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
This database offers the digitized archives of the Royal Geographical Society from 1478 to 1953, and contains a range of searchable manuscripts, correspondence, reports, conference papers, proceedings, maps, charts, atlases, photographs, surveys, data and ephemera produced by the researchers and members of RGS. The history of geography throughout the British Empire in all its aspects is represented in this collection, which also focuses on environmental history, exploration, colonization and de-colonization, anthropology, law, climate science, gender studies and cartography.

Wiley Online Library
The Wiley Online Library is Electronic Journals site. The table of contents and abstracts of non-subscribed journals are available in addition to the full text of approximately 40 journals. Some journals even have a cross-reference function linking to the full text of the article's references.