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Things you can do after logging in

You can use the services below by logging in with your account.

・Bookmark
Bookmarks lets you save articles for easy and quick access at any time.
・New Arrival Alert
A New Arrival Alert lets you know when new articles arrive in your favorite magazine.

Create Account

Click [Log In / Sign up] at the top right of the page, then click [Create your account for free] to create a new account.

Enter information such as email address, password, etc.,
then click [Register] to register for a new account provisionally.

After provisional registration, a verification email will be sent to the address you registered.
Click [Confirm/Cancel your account] to verify your account.
Click [Confirm your account] to finish your account registration, then you can use all our service.

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Log In

Click [Log in / Sign up].
Log in to the site with the email address and password you registered.
If you select [Keep me logged in] before logging in, you will remain logged in even if you close your browser.
You can use the service without logging in after that.
Please DO NOT select [Keep me logged in] if you share your PC with other people, for example, in public facilities.
If you access our service via shared PC, please DO LOG OUT when you leave.

Change Account Information

To change your account information, click [Account] after logging.

Select [Account] in the side menu and enter new/modified account information.

After clicking [Update], the account information will be updated.

Change Password

To change your password, click [Account] after logging in.

Select [Change Password] in the side menu and enter a new password.

Cancel Your Account

Cancel your Account and stop using our additional services.
After canceling your account, all the account information will be removed.

Click [Account] after logging in.

Select [Cancel Your Account] in the side menu and click [Cancel Your Account].

Bookmarks

After logging in, you can bookmark articles.

On the [Bookmarks] page, you can share your bookmarked articles with other services or remove your bookmarks.

New Arrival Alert

After logging in, the New Arrival Alert can be configured to send notification letters.

Click the icon of the journals on the top page to switch on/off of the New Arrival Alert.

You can do the same at the article-lists page. Click the icon of the journal at the left top of the articles’ page to switch on/off of the New Arrival Alert.

For those Journals that New Arrival Alert is on, a notification email will be sent to your email address when their latest articles are published.

Free Word Search

You can easily search with free words.
Items you can search for are different on each search site.

Search for all articles (bib data) with keywords separated by spaces.

Advance Search

You can define search criteria with full text, title, author, abstract, journal tile, and publication year.
CiNii does not allow you to search with abstracts, even if you define them.

Search Results

The search results will be shown in each search site.
Click on a journal name to see the search results for that journal.

20 results will be displayed at a time. Scrolling down the page, “More” bottom will be displayed. Click the button to view more results.

Items on bibliographic information

Search results include article title, journal title, year of publication, authors, DOI, social score, abstract, etc.

To display abstract, click [Abstract] (Springer Link Only).

Social Score

Article-level social scores in Mendeley, Twitter, Facebook, and Artmetric are displayed in search result as below.

Mendeley	Number of readers
Facebook	Number of Likes Number of Comment Number of Shares
Altmetric	Altmetric Scores

If the system was unable to retrieve social ratings due to a lack of information, [-] will be displayed next to the social icon.

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