〈Schedule〉
9:00-19:00 on Saturday, 26th Feb. 2022 (Japan Time)

〈Suspended service〉
All JapanKnowledge Services (JapanKnowledge Lib, Select contents and JKBooks)

HERMES-IR (Hitotsubashi Educational and Research MEdia Service-Institutional Repository) is an archive which stores digital copies of research outputs and collections of the University. Hitotsubashi University Library follows necessary copyright protection procedures as contents are digitally processed and released on the Internet.

We would like to inform that abstracts attached with research outputs featured mainly in the University publications (i.e. journals, discussion papers, working papers) are going to be open to parties outside the University such as research database providers. We ask authors of abstracts to kindly understand that the purpose of disclosure is to further increase discoverability of the University’s research outputs, and to give permission to the use of abstracts as described below. If the author does NOT permit use of any abstract(s), they are asked to contact us by Friday, March 31st, 2022.

Please note that “permission of use” refers to reproduction rights and public transmission rights included in copyrights. Copyrights will not be transferred by giving permission to the above. For further details, see below.

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

Period: January 28 – April 3, 2022

Due date
Undergraduate studentsMonday, April 18, 2022
Graduate students: Books for StudyMonday, April 18, 2022
Graduate students: Books for Research2 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 January 28.

19,000 academic ebooks included in Oxford Scholarship Online are now available. Oxford Scholarship Online provides academic ebooks from Oxford University Press, spanning 27 subject areas. New titles will come up every month.

Oxford Scholarship Online does not cover handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

The library will choose ebooks when you send a purchasing request for the title within this package during this period as long as the contracted amount does not exceed. After the period, titles to be purchased are determined based on the usage reports indicating which titles are the most popular within the university during the period under an EBA model.

ACCESS:   https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/
If you would like to search only Oxford Scholarship Online, click a radio button “Oxford Scholarship Online".

How to access off-campus:
1. Log in to My Library
2. Database List > Oxford Scholarship Online

Schedule

12:00-20:00 on Sunday, 16 January. 2022(Japan Time)

All ProQuest Services (ProQuest Platform etc.)

Taylor & Francis eBooks now available. 

More than 100,000 eBooks from a variety of publishers are available, including Routledge for the humanities and social sciences, and CRC Press for the science and technology sector.
*All titles are available for a limited time including contents not contracted by the university.
*Titles in the trial are not available for download in PDF, but only for online viewing and printing.

Period: – December 31, 2021 → April 30, 2022
*Off-campus access is available.
*For remote access, please go to Remote Access.

Due to maintenance of telephone systems, the library’s telephone lines will be temporarily unavailable on the following dates.

Saturday, December 11, 2021, 14:30 – 16:30

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your cooperation.

We will start a program that allows you to subscribe to Nikkei Asia contracted with our university for a limited time for free.

Nikkei Asia

“Nikkei Asia" provides a wide range of business, political and economic news from Asian countries. The library holds print version.

How to apply for free subscription to “Nikkei Asia"

  • Please access Google Classroom, check the contents, and apply from the web form.
  • Please note that the first 200 people are available, so the application may be closed as soon as the capacity is reached.
    ※The application email address must be issued by the university. (You cannot apply with your personal email address.)
    ※Please understand that the name and e-mail address of the person who applied will be notified to the service provider.
    ※The application URL is not open to the public. Please refrain from sharing with third parties, including posting on SNS.
  • Free subscription period: Application date-May 31, 2022.

The Library offers long-term loans for the Winter vacation.

Period: December 13 – December 26, 2021

Date due
Undergraduate studentsWednesday, January 12, 2022
Graduate students: Books for StudyWednesday, January 12, 2022
Graduate students: Books for Research2 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 December 13.

Kyobo Book Centre(Kyobo Bunko Scholar)is now available.
Kyobo Bunko Scholar is an e-journal of Korean academic and academic journals provided by Kyobo Book Centre, the largest bookstore in Korea, and contains the full text of more than 1,000 periodicals and non-periodicals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full text data in PDF format for more than 1,200 academic journals, research journals, and university bulletins published by more than 700 academic societies and research institutes in Korea, and contains more than 500,000 articles.

Period: – December 31, 2021

*Off-campus access is not available.