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For students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University, we provide mailing service of photocopies of other library’s materials.
*The terms and conditions may be changed depending on the situation.

Target

Students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University

Period

Tuesday, January 12– Wednesday, March 31, 2021　 *Applications will be accepted until 23:59, March 30, 2021.

Available materials

• Photocopies of other library’s materials. This mailing service is only for photocopies (not for loans).
• Up to 5 documents per person during the period including mailing services of the library materials.

Fee

• Copying fee and postage (from other libraries to Kunitachi or Chiyoda Campus)
• Please pay the transfer fee.
• The University will pay for the shipping.
• If you want to pay the copying fee with public expenses (including external funds), enter the budget information in the comments field in MyLibrary.

Note

• Please specify the bibliographic information in advance. If you are not sure, please use HERMES-Search, CiNii Articles (for domestic articles), and Web of Science (for overseas articles), etc. If you cannot identify the bibliographic information, please contact us via Ask a librarian.
• Cancellations after application and refusal of payment will not be accepted.

How to apply

1. Same as normal requesting to photocopies from other libraries, please apply via MyLibrary. Please enter “using mailing service” in the comments field in MyLibrary.
2. Helpdesk or Chiyoda Campus Library will send you a confirmation email with the mailing address, so please be sure to reply.
3. Once a copy arrives at Kunitachi or Chiyoda Campus from other libraries, we will send an email about the price. It may take some time depending on the form of the material and the quantity you want to copy.
4. Please transfer the fee to the designated account of the University, and send the image of the transfer copy or the screenshot showing that the transfer has been completed as an e-mail attachment.
5. After confirming the transfer details, we will send a copy by ordinary mail. The arrival date cannot be specified.

The Library offers long-term loans for the winter holidays.

Period: From December 11 To December 27, 2020

	Date due
Undergraduate students	Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Graduate students: Books for Study	Tuesday, January 12, 2021
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.

Materials of the Chiyoda Campus Library

Period	Date due
From December 11 To December 25, 2020	Tuesday, January 12, 2021

• 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 11.

We will start a program that allows you to subscribe to the electronic version of Nikkei Asia (former title: Nikkei Asian Review) contracted with our university for a limited time for free.
It is as part of “The global education support program" provided by Nikkei Inc.

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.
• After applying, the service provider will notify you of the connection URL and ID / PW to the email registered in this application.
• Free subscription period: Application date-April 30, 2021.

For use this trial, people who would like to use need to pre-sign up(first 30 people only), please refer to “How to pre-sign up for trial."

The application deadline until October 31 has been extended to November 2nd 8:00am.

FactSet Academic Package

Database containing financial data, M & A data, supply chain data, etc. of domestic and overseas companies

• Trial Period：November 16, 2020 (Monday) -December 13, 2020 (Sunday)
  *You can apply for a trial only once. It is not possible to apply for the first and second trials continuously.
• Trial method: ID / PW
• Off-campus access: available
• Number of people who can try: first 30 people

How to pre-sign up for trial

• Please apply from here by 17:00 on October 31 (Friday) by 8:00am on November 2nd (Monday)due to the advance application system. Please note that the application may be closed when the capacity (first 30 people) is reached.
  *Registered email addresses 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 student who applied will be notified to the service provider.
• By the trial start date, the service provider will notify you by e-mail of the connection URL, ID / PW, and login procedure manual.

About database guide materials

• Regarding the use of FactSet Academic Package, the manual is open to the public only on campus.
• Those who wish to try the databese are recommended to see this manuals in advance.
• Please visit Google Classroom to see it.

The Library contracted ProQuest ebook collection “Academic Complete”. More than 170,000 academic ebooks in various fields are now available.

Access: ProQuest Ebook Central
Period: -March 31, 2021

*ProQuest Ebook Central can search ebook collection “Academic Complete”, DDA titles and unpurchased titles. DDA titles can preview each book for 5 minutes. If you would like to use DDA titles or unpurchased titles, ask a librarian to purchase the title. For purchase requests, please refer to “Book Purchase Requests”
*Off-campus access is available.
*For remote access, please refer to “Remote Access”

EBSCO e-books below are now available.

■ EBSCO eBook Collection
More than 11,000 e-books in Japanese.

■ EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
Over 200,000 e-books in various fields published by major overseas publishers and university presses.

■ EBSCO eBook Business Collection
An e-book collection on the international business area. More than 21,200 e-books from business fields.

■ EBSCO eBook History Collection
An e-book collection on history area. More than 18,700 e-books from history fields.

■ EBSCO eBook University Press Collection
University Press e-books collection. More than 36,400 e-books covering a wide range of subjects from over 90 university presses.

Period: – December 31, 2020

*Off-campus access is available.
*For remote access, please log in to MyLibrary

■Daikibo Tokei Finder
A database containing census, economic census, industrial statistics table and commercial statistics table in Japan.

Period: – December 31, 2020

*Off-campus access is available.
*For remote access, please refer to “Remote Access“.
*Please log in to Google Classroom to check the manual and usage videos.

■Funding View
It can extract and compare and analyze the financial trends of each company that contains bond, stock, treasury stock, and stock price information since 1978.
■Finder Pro
Business environment analysis Web tool that allows you to easily refer to and obtain economic statistics.

Period: – December 31, 2020

*Number of simultaneous accesses is 10.
*Off-campus access is available.
*For access, please check “Information" after logging in to MyLibrary.
*Please log in to Google Classroom to check the manual and usage videos.

Westlaw Japan is now available.
It is comprehensive Japanese online legal information service which covers wide variety of legal information and reference materials including legislation with versioning, cases, decisions, books and journals, bibliographies, news articles.

Period: – December 31, 2020

*Off-campus access is available.
*For remote access, please log in to MyLibrary.
*Please visit Google Classroom to see a video of the product description and how to use it.