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There are many databases to search for domestic scientific journals having various backgrounds and purposes, such as JSTPIus (Japan Science and Technology Agency; JST), JMEDPlus (JST), Ichushi Web (Japana Centra Revuo Medicina), CiNii (National Institute of Informatics), JAPICDOC (Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center; JAPIC), Medical and Pharmaceutical Proceedings Full Text Database (JST), J-STAGE (JST), Medical Online (Meteointergate Inc.), NDL-OPAC Japanese Periodicals Index (National Diet Library), SOCIE (JAPIC). However, there seems to be no verified precedent which tells us how and what kind of databases we should search in order to find prior arts against patent applications. This has driven us to verify 1) databases which contain articles that have been actually employed to prevent patent grant or to revoke patent, and 2) whether we can find domestic articles which are effective against intrinsically unpatentable applications by searching these databases, by information written in patent specification. The results tell us JSTPlus, JMEDPlus and Ichushi Web are especially effective in order to find domestic scientific articles as evidence to disconfirm the patents, and we could find all actually accepted domestic scientific articles as evidence in real prosecution history, by search queries such as keywords in patent specification, inventor names, or the affiliation of the inventor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]