An online union catalogue of books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.
An online union catalogue of books and journals held by university libraries in UK and Ireland.
A huge database of journal articles, former Uncover. It contains abstract or full-text of academic papers mainly in English.
The central national library of Japan. It provides a database of journal articles published in Japan: "Zassi Kizi Sakuin". You can access it from NDL OPAC (Japanese Only). In principle it should catalogue all journals published in Japan, but in fact misses out many journals (perhaps due to some kinds of troubles at the donation): for instance, Japanese Journal of Family Sociology (volumes before 1995 are missed), Sociological Theory and Methods (volumes before 1995 are missed), Annals of Japan Association for Urban Sociology (all the volumes since the foundation in 1983 are missed), and so on (from the search interface page you can access a list of the journal volumes included in the database, but most entries of the list are now "under investigation" (2003-01-16)).
Online catalogue including contents and authors of each chapter in a book. Unfortunately, the search service is Japanese only.
An unified catalogue of Japanese books from Nacsis Webcat mentioned above and some databases by booksellers. You can use the service of associative searching to search the table of contents and catch phrases for books.
You can search the table of contents and catch phrases for books held by the Library of University of Tokyo, for both Japanese and English books.
By the Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University. A collection of URLs of bibliographies and databases in sociology related fields and of libraries and book shops, and so on.
By Okamoto Makoto, the editor of an online journal, Academic Resource Guide. URLs of databases in various academic fields is listed in order of NDC (Nippon Decimal Classification). "Sociology" is classified as 360s in NDC.