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Due to system maintenance, Maruzen eBook Library will be temporarily unavailable during the following periods:

Schedule	Suspended service
12:00 AM, Saturday, August 9 – 12:00 PM, Sunday, August 10, 2025 (Japan Time)	All functions of Maruzen eBook Library
12:00 PM, Sunday, August 10 – 11:59 PM, Sunday, August 17, 2025 (Japan Time)	Content download Request registration

Note: The system downtime end time has been changed from 11:59 PM to 12:00 PM on August 10. Accordingly, feature limitation now begin at 12:00 PM on August 10 instead of August 11.

24,000 eBooks from Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) are now available for a limited time.
OSO provides academic eBooks from Oxford University Press, spanning 27 subject areas. New titles will come up every month.

• Period : 2025/7/25-2026/2/28
• Not available titles : Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, OSO Archive titles (some titles published 1990-2009).
  Available titles are listed under “Find out more > Browse all books in this collection" on the OSO top page.
• Remote access : Available　　※See detail Remote Access

Notice : Any book purchase requests for the applicable titles during this period will be canceled.

Access from ➡　Oxford Scholarship Online
※Available titles are marked (include purchased titles)

We will carry out renovation work of restrooms on 3rd and 4th floors of the Periodicals Annex.
There are time when it is not available, so please use the restroom on other floor.

　Place:　Men’s and Women’s restrooms on 3rd and 4th floors of the Periodicals Annex
　Date :　July 23, 2025-Around September, 2025

Some noise will occurs during the work.
We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

Sorry, this information is only available in Japanese.

Due to the weak yen and ongoing annual cost increases, the Library has implemented a new strategy to determine journal subscription priority.
While striving to preserve e-journal packages whenever possible, we will also maintain a list of individual journal titles and databases ranked by usage.
This list will be used to determine which titles to continue when there is a budget constraint.
This year, a trial survey will be conducted to examine usage of e-journals that do not provide usage data, and print journals.
The results of this survey will ensure data efficacy, and will be followed by another survey in FY2026 to create a final list for the above purpose in FY2027.

Target: Hitotsubashi University Members *Faculty, staff and students with hit-u.ac.jp email addresses

Survey Titles: About 200 titles of foreign journals

Survey Period: July 10 – July 31, 2025

Vote Here

The Library offers long-term loans for the Spring Vacation.

Period: July 18 ～ September 7, 2025

Category	Date due
Undergraduate students	September 22, 2025
Graduate students: Books for Study	September 22, 2025
Graduate students: Books for Research	2 months (as usual)

• This does not include bound periodicals, and “not for loan” items.
• When the expiration date of the student ID card is earlier than the due date, the expiration date will be regarded as the due date.
• The loan period of the Chiyoda Campus Library materials will also be extended on the same schedule.

About Renewal

• Users can renew materials already borrowed into the long-term loan period, unless the materials are overdue or have been reserved by another user.
• Using MyLibrary, users can view their checked-out or reserved items and renew their loans.
• When using MyLibrary, users can renew into the long-term loan period from 9 a.m. on July 18.

Due to system maintenance, library services such as circulation, reservation, and renew books will be unavailable on July 21, 2025. Please note that the service will be limited if you visit the library on this day.

Services Unavailable on all day

1. Circulation
   It will be unavailable to borrow the materials include same-day checkout.
   ※It is also unable to borrow the materials you reserved. If the reservation deadline of the books are 7/21, we will extend to 7/22.

2. Return
Though you can return materials, because the library system cannot process the return, the materials will remain “on loan" until around 9:00 AM on 7/22.
※If the loan period of the materials is 7/21, we will extend to 7/22.

3. Extension of Return Dates
You cannot extend the return dates.
※If the loan period of the books is 7/21, we will extend to 7/22. Please renew them after MyLibrary resume (It is scheduled to resume around 22:30 on 7/21).

4. PCs in the Library
The following PCs in the library will be unavailable:
・PCs for HERMES-Catalog (Online Library Catalog)
・HERMES-IR restricted-access collections terminal

Services Unavailable from 9:00 to 22:30

1. Online Services
   The following online services will be unavailable from 9:00 to 22:30, both on and off-campus. The actual downtime may vary depending on the progress of maintenance work.
   ・HERMES-Catalog (Online Public Access Catalog)
   ・Location search for books and journals via HERMES-Search
   ・HERMES-IR (Institutional Repository)
   ・MyLibrary
   ・“Database List page" (https://opac.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/opac/gateway/?lang=1)
   　※The alternative page (https://www.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/public/DBlist) is available.

Services that will Remain Available

1. Reading materials inside the library
2. Self-service via Copy Machines
3. Fee-charging Printers
4. Use of group study rooms
   ※It will be unable to reserve for 7/21 by MyLibrary. Please make a reservation at the library counter after 7/14.
5. User Internet Terminals (for campus members)
6. Wireless LAN “1284 Wireless"
7. Access to e-journals, e-books and databases

If you have any question, please contact the library counter by 17:00 on 7/18.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

ProQuest Central Premium is now available.
This database, provided by ProQuest (Clarivate), offers a wealth of full-text content, including magazines, news sources, trade journals, case studies, market and industry reports, and business cases. The number of accessible journal titles, foreign newspapers, theses, and video content is far greater than the content our library currently subscribes to. Please take advantage of this opportunity.

Number of simultaneous accesses: unlimited
Period: until August 5, 2025
For remote access, please follow the steps here.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) of Asian History is now available.
The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) is an online encyclopedia with current, trustworthy peer-reviewed articles.
New topics are added and existing articles are updated every month.
In addition to the 5 subscribed subjects (Business Management, Economics & Finance, International Studies, Political Science, and Psychology), you will also have access to the subject of Asian History for 2 months.

Number of simultaneous accesses: unlimited
Period: 　- Aug. 1, 2025
For remote access, please follow the steps: Home > Research Support > E-Resource Portal > Remote Access

The following electronic resources are now accessible. Please take advantage of this opportunity!

■ Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection
The collection stores and provides grey literature such as reports, blog posts, videos, and podcasts from government agencies facing the removal of public information and data.
Registration is required, but the service is free to use. As we are already registered as an institution, you can use the service on the on-campus network.

Click here for detailed collection information.
Click here for the press release by Coherent Digital.

Number of simultaneous accesses: Unlimited
Remote access: Available.
*Please click here to learn how to access remotely.