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Payment method for Interlibrary Loan/Photocopy at private expenses will be changed on April 1st, 2025.

The place of payment will change from the Medical Library to CO-OP shop. After April 1st, you need to pay charges at CO-OP Shops.

  

After April 1st, 2025

〇Pick up at Medical Library Front Desk

　Weekdays 9:00-21:45

    Saturday 10:00-15:45

 

〇Pay at  Kyoto Univ. CO-OP Shops

Please check the co-op's business hours.

 

〇How to pick up and pay

1. Medical Library tells you by email that your ILL items have arrived.
2. Come to Medical Library Front Desk and pick up the ILL items and the bills.
3. Go to CO-OP Shop and hand the bills to CO-OP staff.
4. Pay charges and the staff give you back the bills as the receipts.

 

After picking up your ILL items, please pay charges within one week.

Please note that you can pay only by cash, at private expenses. 

 

Even though you get an email from us about the arrival of your ILL items in March, you need to pay at the CO-OP shop after April 1st.

 

*We can send them to the laboratory if you need. Please see here for details.

*Before March 31th, pick up and pay at Medical Library.

*If you would like to pay at the front desk at the library as before, please let us know when you request copies. You cannot change the payment location after the invoices are issued.

*There is no change in payment for copies of Medical library materials.

 

 

Contact:

Medical Library

igakueturan[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

 

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Old Map of Yoshida Village in Yamashiro Province held by the Kyoto University Museum has been newly released on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

The old map of Yoshida Village in Yamashiro Province (山城国吉田村古図) is a colored map showing the status of land ownership in Yoshida Village, Otagi-gun, Yamashiro Province, including the area that corresponds to the present-day Yoshida Campus of Kyoto University. This map measures about 176 cm x 265 cm, with annotations of the place, lot numbers, areas, owners, and tax payment recipients. Based on the content, it is estimated to have been drawn between the late 18th and mid-19th century.

Above: whole map / Below left: fields / Below right: residental land

The original of the map can be seen in the special exhibition at the Kyoto University Museum from March 19 (Wed) to May 11 (Sun), 2025 (*Only duplicate will be displayed from March 19 to April 13, 2025).
As of March 19, 2025, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 2,154,630 images of 25,595 titles.

 

Library for the Division of African Area Studies will be closed from April 1st. 2025 to March 31st. 2026.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Access to ProQuest's "Sociological Abstracts" will end on March 31, 2025.

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

From April 2025, we will introduce EBSCO Sociology Source Ultimate as a database for sociology and related fields (trial use is available until the end of March 2025).

EBSCO Sociology Source Ultimate

Database List "S"

[Kyoto University Library Network]

KinoDen(Kinokuniya Digital Library) service will be suspended due to its system maintenamce during the following period.
We appreciate your support and patience.

Schedule

• 18:00 - 18:30 on Saturday, 5 April 2025 (Japan Time)

Suspended service

• KinoDen Service
• bREADER Cloud app

The NII-REO (OJA: Online Journal Archive) now offers access to 195 titles from Cambridge University Press.

• Collection URL: https://reo.nii.ac.jp/oja/HtmlIndicate/html/journal/publishers/SUP0000009000_en.html
• List of journal titles, URLs, and coverage years

In the near future, these journals will become searchable through KULINE and E-Journals & E-Books List.

[2025/03/07]
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12 items from Dutch trade documents held by the Kyoto University Museum have been newly released on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

▼Dutch trade document at Dejima, Nagasaki

Documents related to the arrival of the “Schip Handelmaat Schappy” at Dejima in 1827, 12 items in total. Germain Felix Meijlan, whose name appears as the author of the documents, was the head of the Dutch trading post in Nagasaki from August 1826 to October 1830.
The purchase ledger shows “purchase” of “Holländischer Händel in Japan (Dutch trade document) 1818-27, 1 copy (12 sheets)”on July 17, 1911. The content descriptions of the metadata were based on a catalog prepared by Naojiro Murakami, a pioneer in the study of the history of Japan-Europe relations, who at the time was the director of the former Tokyo School of Foreign Studies.

A roster of imports

As of March 4, 2025, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 2,154,629 images of 25,594 titles.

 

Record ID	Title	Publication year (Japan)	Collection
RB00034908	Directives to ship captains regarding Japanese sea lanes	1818(文政1)年5月7日	Museum
RB00034909	Additional directives concerning Japan	-
RB00034910	An agreement between Dutch trading houses and Dutch ship captains	1827(文政10)年
RB00034911	Orders given by Meijlan	1827(文政10)年11月9日
RB00034912	Letters from Meijlan	1827(文政10)年9月11日
RB00034913	A copy of regulations concerning the hoisting of national flags of ships entering Japanese waters	（1760(宝暦10)年6月14日）
RB00034914	Orders given by Meijlan	-
RB00034915	A notice given by Meijlan	1827(文政10)年7月26日
RB00034916	Letters from Meijlan	1827(文政10)年7月25日
RB00034917	A roster of imports	-
RB00034918	A roster of exports	-
RB00034919	A roster of imports by weight	-

 

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)

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Posted: 2025/03/03