Due to renovations to the heating system in the Main Library, the following areas will be temporarily closed.

 Place: The basement floor of library main building
 Date: December 8, 2025, from opening hours until 1:00 PM (scheduled)

If you require materials shelved on the basement floor of the main building, please apply at the counter.
Library staff will retrieve the materials from the closed areas.

There will be noisy work.

We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

Due to Filming, The Reading Room will be temporarily closed.

 【Date】17:00 p.m. – 19:00 p.m. on November 21, 2025 (Friday)

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

We are currently carrying out renovation work on the heating system in the main library. (Date: October 1, 2025 ~ end of March 2026)

There will be noisy work. If some passages and reading seats will be unavailable due to the work, we will notice in advance.

We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

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

ScheduleSuspended service
12:00 AM – 5:00 AM, Sun, Sep. 14, 2025 (Japan Time)All functions of Maruzen eBook Library
11:00 PM, Sun, Sep. 21 – 8:00 AM, Mon., Sep. 22, 2025 (Japan Time)Some Contents
・Unavailable content types = reflowable ePUB (read aloud), video, audio, audiobook

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Due to inspection of the broadcasting equipment , music is currently being played in the library.
We apologize and thank you for your cooperation.

Place: All areas of campus including the library
Date: Until 5:00 PM on August 7, 2025

Due to system maintenance, ProQuest Ebook Central will be temporarily unavailable during the following periods:

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Sunday, August 10, 2025 (Japan Time)

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

ScheduleSuspended service
12:00 AM, Saturday, August 9 – 12:00 PM, Sunday, August 10, 2025 (Japan Time)All functions of Maruzen eBook Library
12:00 PM, Sunday, August 10 – 11:59 PM, Sunday, August 17, 2025 (Japan Time)Content download
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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.

The Library will be closed for the maintenance on June 4, 2025.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

We will shoot photography inside the library as follows.

[Date] February 18, 2025 (Tue.) from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
[Place] Inside the Library

  • When taking photo, there is a possibility that you will be in the background.
  • Some noise may be generated.

We apologize your inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.

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