About Webcat

Webcat is a system for searching the union catalog database of books and journals held by the libraries of universities and other institutions.
This union catalog is a collabolataive database by the participated libraries of the NACSIS-CAT cataloging system provided and managed by the National Institute of Informatics.
The participated libraries continually register their holding data of books and journals into the database.
The database is updated weekly on Sundays.
Please also try the Webcat Plus for advanced search.

Accessible by anyone with a web browser.
Simple operations.
Allows you to search by publisher, subject, and classification, besides book title and author.
Multilingual retrieval supports. Search words can be Japanese Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana, as well as alphabet letters (Romaji).
24 hours a day, 365 days a year service.