Published at October 25th, 2025 Last updated 9 days ago

CiNii

Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like “sigh-knee” is a database service which can be searched with academic information of articles, Books, Journals & Dissertations. (See CiNii)

 

Overview

Content type  License / subscription Available for Automated search Integrated with Available Updates
Research output No

Persons: Yes

Organisational units: No

No

 

Set up online source

Go to Administrator > Research outputs > Online sources > CiNii

Setting Description Notes
Enabled Toggles it available for users or not.  

 

CiNii Books and Articles

CiNii supports searching for books and articles. 

Site: https://support.nii.ac.jp/en/cinii/cinii_outline

API: https://support.nii.ac.jp/en/cinii/api/api_outline

 

CiNii Articles

Search url: https://cir.nii.ac.jp/opensearch/articles

JSON format reference: https://support.nii.ac.jp/en/cir/r_json

CiNii to Pure type mapping for articles:

Articles are imported into Pure with this type: Contribution to journal > Article

Table with mapping of fields to Pure.

CiNii field Type Pure field
@id String Unique id in Cinii (used as source Id)
dc:title String Title
creator > foaf:name List Author first name and last name
creator > jpcoar:affiliationName List Author organization name
dc:language String Original language
publication > publicationIdentifier > ISSN String ISSN
publication > publicationIdentifier > EISSN String Electronic ISSN
publication > publicationIdentifier > PISSN String Print ISSN
publication > dc:publisher String Publisher
publication > prism:publicationName String Journal name
publication > prism:volume String Volume
publication > prism:number String Article number
publication > prism:startingPage String Start page
publication > prism:endingPage String End page
publication > prism:publicationDate String Publication date
productIdentifier > identifier > DOI String DOI
foaf:topic > dc:title List Keyword
description > notation List Abstract
reviewed String Peer-reviewed
 
 


Cinii Books

Search url: https://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/opensearch/search

JSON format reference: https://support.nii.ac.jp/en/cib/api/b_opensearch#json-ld

Cinii to Pure type mapping for books:

Books are imported into Pure with this type: Book/Report > Book

Table with mapping of fields to Pure.

Cinii field Type Pure field
@id String Unique id in CiNii (used as source Id)
title String Title
prism:publicationDate String Publication date
dc:creator String Publisher
dc:publisher List Publisher (fallback if dc:creator is empty)
dc:language String Original Language
dc:description String Abstract
foaf:maker List  
foaf:maker > foaf:name String Author name
foaf:maker > con:organization String Author organization name