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.

[Japanse books] (Excel, approx. 32MB） On-campus access only	・List1  Provided by the Maruzen eBook Library ・List2  Provided by the KinoDen ・Includes some non-Japanese books
[Non-Japanese books 1]  (Excel, approx. 10MB） On-campus access only	・List1  Provided by the Bloomsbury, the Brill, the Cambridge, the Oxford, the Taylor & Francis, the Wiley, the World Scientific（titles published after 2019 only）
[Non-Japanese books 2]  (Excel, approx. 13MB) On-campus access only	・List1  Provided by the ProQuest eBook Central（titles published after 2019 only, carefully selected by Kinokuniya Bookstore）

・ 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.

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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 @.

 

Main Library set January 13 (Mon.) to February 7 (Fri.),  2025 as the preparation period for the examination and will provide special services as follows.

1. 3F Library Hall is available as a study room(from January 17)

Hours are as follows:

• Weekdays 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 10:00 a.m. - 30 minutes before the closing time

2. Extension of hours on January 25-26, February 1-2

The library will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the following days.

• 1/25 (Sat.)
• 1/26 (Sun.)
• 2/1 (Sat.)
• 2/2 (Sun.)

For details, please check the Main Library's hours.

3. For non-KU users (including graduates)

Please refrain from entering the library because it is crowded with KU students for the period.
Thank you for your cooperation.

* For service during regular period, please refer to the "Guide for non-KU users" on the Kyoto University Library website.

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Please be informed of the key points of the “Basic Policy for Achieving Immediate Open Access of Scholarly Articles and Other Research Outputs (National OA Basic Policy)” (formulated on February 16, 2024). Please note that the policy applies to all researchers who will receive funding from KAKENHI and other designated research grants that issue calls for proposals in and after FY2025. Kyoto University provides related support to our faculty members, including services to make evidence data for articles open access.

(1) How to Comply with the National OA Basic Policy for Research Grants, such as KAKENHI

In February 2024, the Cabinet Office formulated the Basic Policy for Achieving Immediate Open Access of Scholarly Articles and Other Research Outputs (National OA Basic Policy). To understand how to comply with the policy using support provided at Kyoto University, please refer to the website below for detailed explanation. 

〇How to Comply with the National OA Basic Policy for Research Grants, such as KAKENHI

Kyoto University has already established and is operating the necessary infrastructure, KURENAI, to provide a one-stop service for making scholarly articles and their evidence data openly accessible.

(2)KURENAI: Capable of Assigning DOIs to Evidence Data for Articles

With KURENAI operated by the Library Network, you can publish evidence data for　scholarly articles assigned with DOIs. By depositing evidence data in KURENAI in advance while still writing your article, you can cite the DOI assigned to the evidence data in the article and then submit it.
Please see the following website that provides how Kyoto University researchers have put this into practice.

〇Publish Research Data (Evidence Data for Articles) with DOIs in KURENAI

(3)RDM Drive: Support Service for Sharing Research Data

The Center for Open Science and Data Management, IIMC is offering a trial service called RDM Drive, which enables researchers to store and share data generated during the research process exclusively among the research team. For more information, please visit the following website.

〇RDM Drive (trial) - Center for Open Science and Data Management, IIMC

New library map "Shin Map" is now available.

[Kyoto University Library] Shin Map
https://platinumaps.jp/d/kulib

The map provides easy-to-understand information on the approximately 40 libraries.

You can display your current location on the map and easily reach libraries.*
You can also view photos of each library so you can learn about the atmosphere of libraries you have never visited.

Please get to know KU libraries and use them a lot!

 

*Please click on the arrow symbol in the lower left corner of the map.
If you allow location information to platinumaps.jp, you can display your current location.

Prohibited use of electronic resources

Use of electronic resources including databases, e-journals and e-books subscribed by Kyoto University is subject to copyright laws and licence agreements.
The licences generally prohibit the following uses:

Violation of the licence agreements may result in the suspension of access to e-resources for the whole University. Please be aware that access may also be blocked on a per-user basis due to the authentication system.

Note on text and data mining and generative AI

• In some cases, special permission from the publisher or a separate agreement may be required to use electronic resources for text and data mining or for training generative AI. If you plan to use resources for such purposes, please contact "Question about E-Journals/Databases" in advance.
• Please note that uploading electronic resource content to cloud-based services, such as generative AI, machine translation, etc., may constitute a breach of contract and copyright infringement.

Automatic Download Features of Reference Management Tools and Browser Preloading Functions

Recently, there have been cases of unintentional mass downloading/mass access caused by the automatic download function of literature management software/plug-ins or the link preview function of web browsers.

These functions repeatedly access links within a page in the background. As a result, the user may be unaware that he or she is causing a mass download/access. Please do not use these functions as they may induce a malfunction of the e-journal/database authentication system.

For information about settings in each literature management software and web browser,
[Attention!] Regarding Bulk Access to Electronic Resources Due to Automatic Download Features of Reference Management Tools and Browser Preloading Functions

Flyers

• Electronic Journal "Excessive Access" Recent Case: It happens without any intention!!（PDF）[Flier]

Related Pages

• E-Journals & E-Books List
• Flyer: E-Journals : Access and Use Restrictions (PDF) [English] [Chinese] [Korean] [Japanese]
• How to use e-resources
• Authentication System Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

[Kyoto University Library Network]
Posted: 2024/12/02