Opening hours and entering method of the Reading Room will change.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the sudden change, and appreciate your cooperation.
[Change Date] Wednesday, September 16
| – September 15 | September 16 – | |
|---|---|---|
| Opening hours | 8:30 – 19:00 | 9:30 – 17:10 |
| Entering method | Central stairs of the Clock Tower | 2nd floor, Main building of the Library |
The library will reopen from September 14, 2020.
For more information, please check here.
| Services | September 13 | September 14 – |
|---|---|---|
| Entering Library | Reservation | Free |
| Opening Hour | 9:30 – 16:30 | 9:30 – 17:10 |
| Main Entrance | Unavailable | Available |
| Stay Time | 2 hours | No Limit |
| Reading Seats | Unavailable | Available *reduced |
| PCs | Available *reduced | Available *reduced |
| Bookshelf Areas | Reservation | Free |
| Closed Stack Materials | Reservation until day before | Reservation on the day |
| Entering Closed Stack | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Printers | Unavailable | Available |
| Photocopiers | Available | Available |
| OPAC PCs | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Mailing Service | Available | Available |
| Group Study Rooms | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Clock Tower Commons | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Reading Room | Unavailable | Available for online classes |
| Reference consultation at the helpdesk | Unavailable *Ask a Librarian | Unavailable *Ask a Librarian |
| Microform Materials | Available *Advanced reservation are required. | Available *Advanced reservation are required. |
| Taking Photos of Materials | Available *Advanced reservation are required. | Available *Advanced reservation are required. |
| Rare Materials | Available *Reproduction only. | Available *Advanced reservation are required. |
| National Diet Library Digital Collections | Available *Advanced reservation are required. | Available *Advanced reservation are required. |
| Visiting Other Libraries / Letters of Introduction | Unavailable | Unavailable |
We will suspend reservations for materials, entering and graduation thesis reading seats. You can use them without reservation.
The Library will be open from September 14.
However, in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection, there are restrictions on the opening hours and the number of reading seats.
Please check the following contents before using. Thank you for your cooperation.
If you would like to use the Center for Historical Social Science Literature, the Chiyoda Campus Library, the Institute of Economic Research Library, or the Research Centre of Information and Statistics of Social Science, please visit their websites.
[Main Building] Weekdays (Monday – Friday) 9:30 – 17:10
[Reading Room] Weekdays (Monday – Friday) 9:30 – 17:10
[Periodicals Annex] Weekdays (Monday – Friday) 9:30 – 16:40
*We are closed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays including class days.
*We are opening on Sep. 21 and 22.
Enter from the entrance gate. (Please bring your student ID, staff ID, etc.)
*You can enter from the front entrance.
Hitotsubashi University Members ( students, faculty and staff, honorary professor and research fellow)
*Off-campus users, including with a Special User ID, cannot be available.
You can use it as usual.
In order to reduce contact, please use the self-checkout machine if possible.
You can apply the closed stack materials including graduation thesis on the day. (Cannot enter the closed stacks.)
Visiting to the Kodaira Research Library is not available.
The maximum number of books that can be borrowed is relaxed as follows.
– Undergraduate students: 20 books (Usually 10 books)
– Graduate students: 60 books (Usually 30 books)
– Faculty and staff: 70 books *no change
Library materials that are not overdue and not reserved can be renewed more than 3 times. We will send you a reminder email 3 days before the due date, so please extend it via MyLibrary. Please return reserved books.
For more information, please visit here.
Books can be returned in the return box near the library entrance or by mail. If you want to return books by mail, please contact us.
Advanced reservations are required. Please send us title and call number of the material, your first and second choice of date and time (10:00,11:00,12:00,13:00,14:00,15:00,16:00) via Ask a Librarian by 4 p.m. on the day before the day of use (weekdays only). Please bring your USB stick to save image files.
Advanced reservations are required. Please send us title and call number of the material, your first and second choice of date and time (10:00,11:00,12:00,13:00,14:00,15:00,16:00) via Ask a Librarian by 4 p.m. on the day before the day of use (weekdays only).
Advanced reservations are required. Please send us title and call number of the material, your first and second choice of date and time (between 10:00 and 17:00) via Ask a Librarian by 4 p.m. on the day before the day of use (weekdays only). If other person has already specified the same date and time, we will contact you.
* We will provide mailing service of photocopy of the rare material. Please visit here for more information.
* For browsing rare materials of the Center for Historical Social Science Literature (CHSSL), please visit here.
Opening Hour: Weekdays (Monday – Friday) 9:30 – 17:10
In principle, the Reading Room is available for online classes.
Please enter the Reading Room from 2nd floor, Main building of the Library.
*The central stairs of the Clock Tower will be closed on September 16.
*You can request via MyLibrary.
*Photocopies can be picked up at the Help Desk on weekdays from 9:30-17:00. Please note that we do not mail them to your home.
*For students and faculty members of Kunitachi Campus, we started mailing photocopies of other library’s materials from December 14, 2020.
*Due to circumstances of other libraries, photocopy requests may be declined or taken more time than usual.
*You can request via MyLibrary. Graduate students can use the Public Subsidy Service for Interlibrary Loan.
*Loan requests are limited up to 5 books for each person. After returning all books at the Help Desk, you can add other requests up to 5.
*Books can be picked up at the Help Desk on weekdays from 9:30-17:00. Please note that we do not mail them to your home.
*Due to circumstances of other libraries, loan requests may be declined or taken more time than usual.
*Browsing is limited up to 2 hour for each person.
*Advanced reservations are required. Please send us your first and second choice of date and time (10:00,11:00,12:00,13:00,14:00,15:00,16:00) via Ask a Librarian by 4 p.m. on the day before the day of use (weekdays only).
*The library staff make photocopies (for a fee). Photocopies will be ready the next day or later. *All students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University can use mailing service of photocopies (Please ask to Helpdesk when you use this digital collections).
Out of service
Lexis Library Primary Law Collection is now available. It includes Legislation, Case Law, Current Awareness and Journals in UK Legislation.
Period: – October 30, 2020
*Off-campus access is available.
*For access, please check “Information" after logging in to MyLibrary.
Here are some e-resources that are available from off-campus. Please use them for your research and study at home.
We will keep this page updated.
Please be sure to log in to MyLibrary with your Hitotsubashi authentication ID before using this service.
For basic usage, please see Remote Access.
The application has closed at 23:59 on Tuesday, March 30, 2021.
For students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University, we will provide mailing service of the library materials.
We will open the application forms from 9:00 A.M. Monday, August 17, 2020. The application period will end at 23:59 on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. [Areas not covered] Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama
*All students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University can use this service since September 1, 2020.
*The covered area may be enlarged or reduced depending on the situation.
Students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University who have difficulty visiting the library.[Areas not covered] Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama
*All students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University can use this service since September 1, 2020.
*The covered area may be enlarged or reduced depending on the situation.
Monday, August 17, 2020 – 23:59 on Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University who have difficulty visiting the library.[Areas not covered] Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama
*All students and faculty members of Hitotsubashi University can use this service since September 1, 2020.
*The covered area may be enlarged or reduced depending on the situation.
Tuesday, January 12 – 23:59 on Tuesday, March 30, 2021
16,000 academic ebooks included in Oxford Scholarship Online are now available. Oxford Scholarship Online provides academic ebooks from Oxford University Press, spanning 20 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:
Log in to My Library > Remote Access Database Menu (リモートアクセス データベースメニュー) > Oxford Scholarship Online
The Library offers long-term loans for the summer holidays.
Period: From July 21 To September 8, 2020
| Date due | |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate students | September 23, 2020 |
| Graduate students | Books for Study: September 23, 2020 |
| Books for Research: 2 months (as usual) |
| Period | Date due |
|---|---|
| From July 15 to September 8, 2020 | September 23, 2020 |
12,000 academic ebooks published from 2012 to 2020 by Cambridge University Press or other partner press are now available. New titles will come up every month.
Partner press: Boydell & Brewer, Edinburgh University Press, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Liverpool University Press, etc.
* Some titles are not available even if they are published from 2012 to 2020. Cambridge History Series, Cambridge Companion Series, Handbooks and Textbooks are also not covered.
* 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://www.cambridge.org/core/
* Titles with this icon 
are available (including purchased ones).
How to access
off-campus:
Log in to My Library >
Remote Access Database Menu (リモートアクセス データベースメニュー) > Cambridge Core (Journals and Books)
As of 4 p.m. on July 2, there is a symptom that you may not be able to connect to MyLibrary.
For this reason, all library materials whose due date is July 2 have been changed to July 3.
If the situation does not improve after July 3, we will let you know again.
If you are planning to pre-apply from MyLibrary, please apply by email.
For more details, please check this page, “If you want to copy “in library use only" materials."