CiNii (/ˈsaɪniː/)[1] is abibliographic database service for material in Japanese academic libraries, especially focusing onJapanese works and English works published inJapan. An early trial version of the database was a component of its predecessor called GeNii,[2] available online at least since June 2002.[3] A complete version of CiNii has been available since April 2005.[4] The service searches from within the databases maintained by the NII itself (Citation Database for Japanese Publications, CJP), as well as the databases provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (J-STAGE), theNational Diet Library of Japan,institutional repositories, and other organizations.[5]
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| Producer | National Institute of Informatics (Japan) |
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| History | April 2005–present |
| Languages | Japanese,English |
| Access | |
| Cost | Free; Subscription for full-text |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Multidisciplinary |
| Record depth | Index, abstract & full-text |
| Format coverage | Journal articles and books |
| Temporal coverage | 1906–present |
| Geospatial coverage | Japan |
| No. of records | 22 million |
| Links | |
| Website | ci |
As of March 2020, the database contains more than 22 million articles from more than 3,600 publications.[5] A typical month (in 2012) saw more than 30 million accesses from 2.2 million unique visitors,[6] and is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind in Japan. Although the database is multidisciplinary, the largest portion of the queries it receives is in the humanities and social sciences field, perhaps because CiNii is the only database that covers Japanese scholarly works in this field (as opposed to the natural, formal, and medical sciences which benefit from other databases).[7]
Database identifiers
editThe database assigns a unique identifier,NII Article ID (NAID), to each of its journal article entries.[6] A different identifier,NII Citation ID (NCID or 書誌ID) akaNACSIS-CAT Record ID, is used for books.
NCID examples
edit- NCID BA04004867 for the 1951 Little, Brown edition and ofThe Catcher in the Rye
- NCID BB17611495 for the 2010 Penguin edition ofThe Catcher in the Rye
- NCID BA36680090 for a 1952 edition ofKiken na nenrei (危険な年齢),NCID BN01880084 for a 1964 edition ofRai-mugi batake de tsukamaete (ライ麦畑でつかまえて), andNCID BA61718322 for a 2003 edition ofKyatchā in za rai (キャッチャー・イン・ザ・ライ), all three being Japanese translations ofThe Catcher in the Rye
- NCID BB13715590 for a 1997 edition ofMai tian li de shou wang zhe (麦田里的守望者), a Chinese translation ofThe Catcher in the Rye.
Identifiers are also assigned to authors of books, and of journal articles, in two separate series (so an author may have a different identifier value in each). For example, Shinsaku Kimoto isDA00432173 for books and9000002393144 for journal articles.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^"About CiNii".CiNii. Retrieved2014-02-23.
- ^Negishi, Masamitsu; Sun, Yuan; Shigi, Kunihiro (2004)."Citation Database for Japanese Papers: A new bibliometric tool for Japanese academic society".Scientometrics.60 (3): 348.doi:10.1023/B:SCIE.0000034378.38698.b2. Retrieved2023-08-25.
- ^"About CiNii" (in Japanese). National Institute of Informatics. June 2002. Archived fromthe original on 2002-06-10. Retrieved2023-08-25.
- ^大向一輝 (Ohmukai, Ikki) (2009)."学術情報プラットフォームとしてのCiNii".Current Awareness (in Japanese) (301). CA1691.
- ^ab"CiNii Articles - CiNii Articles Incorporated Databases".CiNii. Retrieved2023-08-25.
- ^ab大向一輝 (Ohmukai, Ikki) (2012)."System design and data modeling of CiNii articles".The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association.62 (11):473–477.
- ^日詰梨恵 (Hizume, Rie); 逸村裕 (Itsumura, Hiroshi) (2010). "CiNii 収録率から見たわが国の学術情報電子化の現状：人文学４領域を対象に".中部図書館情報学会誌.50:19–35.hdl:2241/105270.
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