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The Spring Vacation Loan 2025 will be held during Spring Break.

　Period: January 29-April 2, 2025

• If the expiration date of the ID card is faster than Date due, Please return the materials by the expiration date of the ID card.
• The bound periodicals and In library use only materials are not included.
• The Spring Vacation Loan will also be held on the same dates in Chiyoda Campus Library.

About Renewal the materials

• The materials on loan can be changed to Spring Vacation Loan, with the exception of books that are overdue or reserved.
• You can renew the material’s status online by using MyLibrary, from 9 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2024.

Starting in April 2025, the opening hours of the Help Desk on the first floor of the library will change as follows.
Please be aware of this in advance.

【 Current Hours 】
◇Weekdays
・Quarter: 9:00-17:00
・Break: 9:00-12:00, 13:00-17:00

【 After Change 】
◇Weekdays
・Quarter: 9:30-16:30
・Break: 9:30-12:00, 13:00-16:30

20,000 academic ebooks from 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.
Titles on Oxford Scholarship Online Archive are not included.

The library will cancel ebooks when you send a purchasing request for the title within this package during this period. After the period, titles to be purchased are determined, based on the usage, etc.

ACCESS: 　Oxford Scholarship Online
 ※Please log in to “Hitotsubashi Authentication System Single Sign-On" when accessing from off-campus.

Available titles are listed under “Find out more>Browse all books in this collection" on the above site.

We have entered into a two-year transformative agreement (*1) with Taylor & Francis from January 2025 to December 2026.

*1 Transformative Agreement
This is the agreement under which the fees paid by universities and other institutions to publishers for access to articles will be progressively converted to APCs (Article Processing Charges), with the aim of expanding open access publication.

Support for Open Access by Transformative Agreement

If you are the corresponding author of a paper submitted to a hybrid journal of Taylor & Francis Journals(Open Choice Journals), the APC may be covered by the University.

The list of eligible titles can be found at the following link;
*Journals marked “Open Select: choose to publish open access" are eligible titles.

Eligible for Transformative Agreement Title List

For more information, please check the URL;

Support for Open Access

We will shoot a video inside the library as follows.

[Date] December 25, 2024 (Thu.) from 3:15 pm to 3:45 pm
[Place] Library Entrance

• This is a video shoot for the Open Campus 2024. This video will be available to the public.
• There will be no close-up shots of faces but there is a possibility that you will be in the background.
• Some noise may be generated.

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Winter Vacation Loan 2024 will be held during Winter Break.

　Period: Dec. 12-Dec. 26, 2024

• The bound periodicals and In library use only materials are not included.
• If the expiration date of the ID card is faster than Date due, Please return the materials by the expiration date of the ID card.
• The Winter Vacation Loan will also be held on the same dates in Chiyoda Campus Library.

About Renewal the materials

• The materials on loan can be changed to Winter Vacation Loan, with the exception of books that are overdue or reserved.
• You can renew the material’s status online by using MyLibrary, from 9 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2024.

Asahi Shimbun Cross Search"Overseas Editions 1935-1945″

The Asahi Shimbun digitized the “Overseas Editions" published from 1935 to 1945 covering such as Taiwan and Korea in colonies. Please see in detail.

Period: – January 31, 2025

*Off-campus access is available. Please log in to “Hitotsubashi Authentication System Single Sign-On" when accessing from off-campus.

Due to the naming rights agreement of Hitotsubashi University, The Clock Tower Commons learning space on the 1st floor of the clock tower has been given a nickname “TSR COMMONS".

　The period: December 1st, 2024 ～ November 30th, 2027

More information (PDF)

We have introduced the following e-resource, which were on trial until November 30, 2024.
The subscription period will be until December 31, 2025. Please take advantage of this opportunity.

■O’Reilly for Higher Education
This database is provided by O’Reilly and includes business and technology-related books, videos, study guides, case studies, and audiobooks. Approximately 240 technology books published by O’Reilly Japan are also available.

*To use this service, you need to create a personal account based on your email address that includes the domain of your institution. For more information, please click here. If you have trouble creating a personal account, please contact us through the inquiry form here.

Number of simultaneous accesses: unlimited
Remote access: available (using a personal account mentioned above and its password)

Contents
◇More than 48,200 books
　Examples of book publishers: Adobe、Cisco、McGraw-Hill、Microsoft、O’Reilly、Pearson、Wiley
　Examples of audiobook publishers: O’Reilly、McGraw-Hill

◇5,800 videos, over 30,000 hours long
　Examples of publishers: Cisco、Microsoft、O’Reilly、Pearson、Wiley
　The videos focus on in-demand technology fields and can help you acquire foundational skills, such as:
　　・Software development: programming languages, tools, methodologies
　　・Data/machine learning engineering: storage, data analysis
　　・Cybersecurity engineering: zero trust, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment

◇Learning paths
　Examples of publishers: Cisco、O’Reilly、Packt、Pearson、Prentice Hall
　The learning paths will provide reliable ways to gain knowledge, whether that be learning a programming language or acquiring a new skill.

◇Case studies

The following law-related databases are subscribed by the School of Law, and have been added to the database list.
They are available university-wide, so please make use of them for your study and research.
●Super Horei Web (Super laws Web)

●Shin Hanrei Kaisetsu Watch (NEW commentaries on legal precedents Watch)

●Houritsu Bunken Sougou Index (comprehensive legal literature Index)

●Kouteki Hanreishu Database (official casebook Database)

*There is a limit to the number of simultaneous accesses, so please be sure to log out when you finish using the database.
*Remote access is possible via Hitotsubashi Authentication ID SSO.