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The library will be closed as follows in August 2025.

• It may take longer than usual to obtain external library materials ordered by inter-library loans and to answer queries directed to the Help Desk.
• During the vacation period, please use the “Summer Vacation Loans 2025 (available from July. 18 to Sep. 7)".
• Please return borrowed books to the Clock Tower Book Drop.

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

Hitotsubashi University Open Campus 2025 will held from August 2nd to August 4th.
If the event is canceled due to Typhoon No. 9 approaching the Kanto region, the library tour will also be canceled.

• If the library tour is cancelled, the reading room will be closed.
• For information about the cancellation of the “Hitotsubashi University Open Campus 2025”, please click here.
• For information about library opening and closing time during emergency alerts, please check here.

We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

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

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)

Hitotsubashi University Open Campus 2025 will held from August 2nd to August 4th.
We will have the free library tour during the open campus. If you would like to tour the Library, please check below;

• No advance reservation required.
• Eating, Drinking and Smirking are Prohibited. *Drinks in spill-proof containers such as plastic bottles are permitted.
• Please do not take photography and film of Exhibits in the exhibition room, Busts in the reading room, or Library Users.

Regarding library tours due to the approach of Typhoon No. 9

If the “Hitotsubashi University Open Campus 2025" event is canceled due to Typhoon No. 9 approaching the Kanto region, the library tour will also be canceled.

• If the library tour is cancelled, the reading room will be closed.
• For information about the cancellation of the “Hitotsubashi University Open Campus 2025”, please click here.
• For information about library opening and closing time during emergency alerts, please check here.

To Regular Users;

Because of the visitors of the Hitotsubashi University Open Campus 2025, the library may become very crowded and noisy. We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

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

• 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.

The computer area on the 1st floor will be unavailable due to routine maintenance on July 9 from 1 pm until closing time.
We thank you for your understanding.