We will carry out renovation work to convert the Japanese-style toilets into a Western-style them. There are time when it is not available, so please use the restroom on other floor. We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

Place: Restroom in 1F of the Main Library.
Date : 9:30-17:00 13, 20, 27 July, 2024

    8:40-9:30 16 July, 2024
*Some noise occurs on 13 and 20.

[UPDATED on July 29, 2024]
Due to extended the work, it will be temporarily unavailable on July 30, 2024.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

[UPDATED on July 31, 2024
Due to extended the work, it will be temporarily unavailable on July 31 and August 2, 2024.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The computer area on the 1st floor will be unavailable due to routine maintenance on July 10 from 1 pm until closing time.
We thank you for your understanding.

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

Period: July 19 ~ September 9, 2024

CategoryDate due
Undergraduate studentsTuesday, September 24, 2024
Graduate students: Books for StudyTuesday, September 24, 2024
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 July 19.

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.

Editor’s perspective: Preparing Manuscript for Top Journals

Prof. Israr Qureshi, the associate editor at top management journals such as Business & Society, Information Systems Journal, and MIS Quarterly (not handling new submissions), will talk about the basics of article writing and submission preparation from an editor’s perspective. There is an interactive session in which participants will receive advice and opinions on papers they are actually preparing.

・There will be a case study (open advice) session within this seminar. If you would like to receive open advice from prof. Qureshi on a paper you are preparing or a research you are considering publishing as a journal article, please let us know in the registration form!

Inquiries: Institutional Research Office, Hitotsubashi University:pp-ir@ad.hit-u.ac.jp
Hitotsubashi University Library:lib-helpdesk@ad.hit-u.ac.jp

Library Exhibition Room will be closed from June 24 to June 28, 2024.
A permanent exhibition will resume on July 1.

Library service will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We thank you for your understanding.

DateTimeService to suspend
6/17(Mon.)There may be up to two stoppages of approximately 15 minutes each between 0:00 and 1:30.・HERMES-Catalog
・MyLibrary
・Off-campus access to e-resources
・Database List
・Search results of HERMES-Search
・HERMES-IR
・E-mails with domain name @lib.hit-u.ac.jp
・Search box on the library website *
  • Please click below link to search for materials. However, please note that some search results may not be displayed, and electronic resources may not be accessed from search results.
    HERMES-Search

The computer area on the 1st floor will be unavailable due to routine maintenance on June 12 from 1 pm until closing time.
We thank you for your understanding.

The access method for WestlawNext, a comprehensive database of legal information focusing on U.S. law, will be changed on the following date and time.

Date of change: Monday, June 10, 2024, around 9:00 a.m.

After that, when you click the database name on the database list, the Hitotsubashi Authentication ID Single Sign-On screen will appear, regardless of whether you are connecting from the on-campus or off-campus network. Please sign in with your Hitotsubashi Authentication ID and password.

*After signing in, you can use the database as before.
*Personalized settings such as “Time Zone" and “History" can be customized in “Profile Settings>My Preferences" in the upper right corner of the top screen. If you check “Send History At Sing Off" under “History," you can send your search history to a specified e-mail address when you sign off. Please make sure to change the e-mail address to your own before using this function.
*To sign off completely, close your entire browser.

Library online service will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We thank you for your understanding.

DateTimeService to suspend
6/5 (Wed.)8:00 ~ 13:30・HERMES-Catalog (Online Library Catalog)
・MyLibrary
・Database List
・HERMES-IR
・E-mails with domain names of @lib.hit-u.ac.jp
  • Library will be closed on 6/5 (Wed.).
  • Delivery of e-mails from the Library may be delayed.
  • Time of service suspension may change depending on situation.