Kyoto University Library Network

※Recommendation form was closed. Thank you for a lot of eBooks recommendations. (February 21th, 2025)

The Kyoto University Library Network provides students with eBooks for lectures and their studies.

We would like to ask for your recommendations of eBooks that you think would be useful for students in first semester AY2025.

Persons eligible to make recommendations

All Kyoto University faculty members (Including part-time lecturers)

eBooks eligible for recommendation

・eBooks that will be used for liberal arts and sciences (ILAS) courses in AY 2025, or that will be useful for students taking those courses.

・eBooks that will be used in undergraduate courses in AY 2025, or that will be useful for students taking those courses.

・eBooks that would be useful for undergraduate students studying at home.

*We will purchase books listed in syllabus of ILAS course sequentially. If you need eBook version, please make recommendation from the recommendation form. Not limited to first semester lectures.

* We cannot purchase eBooks which are not sold to academic institutions. Please refer to the list of titles which are sold to academic institutions at the URL below:

https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/bulletin/1402811?lang=en#ref

eBooks ineligible for recommendation

・Complete works, journals (including back numbers), newspapers

・Study guide, workbooks, self-help books and books of hobbies and practical use

・eBooks that extra costs will be charged next year (ex: contract maintenance fee, platform usage fee) 

How to make a recommendation

Recommendation form was closed. Thank you for a lot of eBooks recommendations. Please use  the recommendation form.

*If you wish to recommend more than one, please enter the titles in order of priority.

 *eBooks purchased will generally only be accessible by one user at a time.

Deadline for recommendations

From January 20th, 2025 to February 20th, 2025.

*We will proceed with the purchase procedure in the order of recommendation acceptance in consideration of the budget situation.

Estimated date of availability

・eBooks will be available sequentially from late January. Please check KULINE of their availability.

*The recommender will be informed only in the case if the recommended eBooks will not be able to be purchased.

Contact

Acquisition and Cataloging Section, Kyoto University Library

Email: shiryoseibi660 [@] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

For reference

・Titles which are already owned by Kyoto University can be searched via KULINE.

・List of titles which are available to academic institutions

Titles are sorted by platform and classified by type. Please use the classifications to narrow down the lists. Some titles are provided in multiple platforms

*Please note that the files are large, so downloading them may require some time.

*Due to the large size of the files, they may not be viewable on some smartphones and tablets.

・ All lists are last updated on July 2024.

・ Although the number of eBooks available to academic institutions is smaller than the number available to individuals, it still comprises a very large number of titles. The lists include only a partial selection of the eBooks that are available, so please do not hesitate to recommend eBooks that are not included in the lists, and we will check their availability.  

Your help and cooperation is greatly appreciated. Your recommendations help us to enhance our eBook collection, and will also be used as reference when requesting publishers to provide digital versions of their books.

Solved. (2025/01/17)

Kyoto University has been blocked from accessing content on Taylor & Francis website due to an excessive download violation.

Publishers of e-journals and e-books are prohibited from accessing all pages, not only the full text, but also the table of contents and abstracts, with excessive frequency, thus overloading the servers.
If excessive access or large downloads are detected, penalties such as blocking access to e-journals from the entire university will be imposed by publisher.

Please read the "[Library Network] Conditions of Use and Licensing Restrictions for E-Resources" announced on Dec. 2, 2024, and review the settings of your browser and reference management tool plug-ins.

Sorry, this entry is only available in 日本語.

Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost), a database containing full-text information on academic materials in sociology and related fields, is now available for trial.

• Database URL: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=ehost&defaultdb=sxi
• Trial period: until March 31, 2025
• Detailed information

*This database is scheduled to be officially introduced in April 2025.

About 4,200 computer science ebooks (copyright year between 2022 and 2025), and about 50 artificical intelligence ebooks (copyright year 2025) are available through to the end of the academic year.

Graduate School of Informatics Library will purchase a certain number of them after the trial.

Access URL

Springer Nature Link - Computer Science (Copyright Year 2022 – 2025)

Springer Link - Artificial Intelligence (Copyright Year 2025)

How to use

 Setting up the authentication system

How to use e-resources

1. Access the following URL

Springer Link - Computer Science (Copyright Year 2022 – 2025)

Springer Link - Artificial Intelligence (Copyright Year 2025)

2. Choose a book or a chapter

3. Click the bookmarklet

Click the bookmarklet [EJDB], and the buttons [Download book PDF]  [Download book EPUB] will appear to make the full text available.

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You can search trial and purchased titles.

Springer Nature Link - Computer Science

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(Contact) Graduate School of Informatics Library

Tel: 075-753-5390

E-Mail: 140tosho (at)mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp    Please replace (at) with @.