Announcement

To Faculty, Staff, and Students of Kyushu University

This page shows the latest information about trials of E-Contents (E-Journals, E-Books and Databases) at Kyushu University Library.
You can use these off-campus and please use actively!

※Many of E-Contents that are available as trial are searchable at OPAC.

If you want to request to purchase ebooks, please click the below links.
→To request of the library for learning and lecture
→To purchase ebooks for research with your budgets

●Videos / E-Learning Courses

■Academic Video Online 【Ended】
This is an useful database of streeming video containing 61,000 contents.
 -Special Trial until June 30, 2020.

■Educational Video Online (6/12 Renewal)
This is a medical / nursing video teaching material distribution service.
【For University members: ID】
　● Members on the hospital campus have been notified of the ID by users email.
　● Other faculty members, please contact us (Contact information below)
 -Free access until July 31, 2020. (Extended)

■IEEE Xplore 【Ended】
IEEE is offering free access to IEEE eLearning courses.
At the top page, please proceed to Browse > Courses.​
These courses cover a wide range of important, cutting-edge topics such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, edge computing, blockchain, IoT, cybersecurity, and professional development.
 -Free access until June 30, 2020.

■JoVE Science Education 【Ended】
JoVE Science Education is the very first video journal in the world. This database is for biology, medical science, chemistry, and physics. These video demonstrations help to understand such as the basic methods and the laboratory techniques.
​All contetns of JoVE Science Education are freely available.
Remote access via IP address authentication is available.
 -Free access until June 15, 2020.

●Ebooks / E-Journals / Databases

■Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (5/18 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Academic Search Ultimate provides thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.
Academic Search Ultimate includes more than 77,000 videos from the Associated Press. This collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research.
 -Trial until July 20, 2020.

■AMA Manual of Style (5/20 New)
The AMA Manual of Style is a guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing.
 -Trial until July 19, 2020.

■Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (5/26 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
This database includes hundreds of full-text journals cited in leading citation indexes. It also includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in key subject indexes of leading science and technology journals.
It offers access to key resources covering multiple areas of study. In addition, hundreds of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America bring a global perspective to researching the STEM discipline.
 -Trial until July 26, 2020.

■Bloomsbury Digital Resources 【Ended】
Bloomsbury provides 21 databases at the below for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
For more information about each database and useful tools, please refer to this list.
・Arcadian Library Online
・Berg Fashion Library
・Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
・Bloomsbury Architecture Library
・Bloomsbury Collections (Searchable at OPAC)
This is the ebooks collection which is provided by Bloomsbury.
・Bloomsbury Cultural History
・Bloomsbury Design Library
・Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
・Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers
・Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
・Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
・Bloomsbury Food Library
・Bloomsbury Medieval Studies
・Bloomsbury Popular Music
・Churchill Archive
・Drama Online
・Fairchild Books Library
・Fashion Photography Archive
・Human Kinetics Library
・Screen Studies
・Theology & Religion Online
 -Free access until June 30, 2020.

■Business Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (5/18 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Business Source Ultimate provides one comprehensive package that also includes full text of journals found in key subject indexes. In addition to accessing essential full-text journals, it provides case studies, country economic reports and company profiles, as well as interviews with executives and analysts.
Business Source Ultimate provides thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.
Business Source Ultimate includes more than 77,000 videos from the Associated Press. This collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research. It also includes more than 27,000 videos from Harvard Business Publishing, IGI Global, Kiplinger Washington Editors, the Academy of Management and other top providers.
Through the Company View feature students receive detailed company information on finances, subsidiaries, products, employees and industry specifics for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest public and private companies.
The Content in Context feature allows students to investigate a company through contextual access to related information including: Case studies / Industry profiles / SWOT analyses/ Books&Monographs / Articles from business journals, magazines and trade publications / Market research reports / Product reviews / News articles / Country reports​
 -Trial until July 20, 2020.

■Cambridge Core 【Ended】
Cambridge University Press provides 705 HTML textbooks for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
Title List
 -Trial until June 29, 2020. (Extended) 【Extention of period is not applied to Kyushu University.】

■CINAHL Complete (EBSCOhost) (6/12 New) 
This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals.
Users get fast and easy full-text access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and more.
Full-text material includes more than 1,300 journals.
 -Trial until August 14, 2020.

■De Gruyter (6/23 Renewal) (Searchable at OPAC)
De Gruyter provides 75,000 ebooks for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
Available titles are published by De Gruyter and associated publishers from 1650 to 2016.
 -Free access until July 31, 2020. (Extended)

■EBSCO eBook Collection 【Ended】
More than 11,000 Japanese ebooks are available.
Title List
 -Trial until June 30, 2020.

■EBSCO eBook Clinical Collection 【Ended】
Title List
 -Trial until June 30, 2020.

■EBSCO eBook Nursing Collection 【Ended】
Title List
 -Trial until June 30, 2020.

■Elsevier (5/15 Renewal)
Elsevier provides 256 textbooks for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
Title List
 -Free access until August 31, 2020. (Extended)

■Emerald Insight (5/19 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
The two collections are now trial.
Emerald Business, Management & Economics eBook Collection Subscription: 1991 - present (1,400 ebook)
Emerald Social Sciences eBook Collection Subscription: 1999 - present (790 ebooks on education and sociology)
 -Trial until July 17, 2020.

■Harvard Business Review E-Book Subscription Collection (EBSCO) 【Ended】
This is the collection of more than 550 ebooks of Harvard Business Review Press.
Title List
 -Trial until May 31, 2020.

■HeinOnline (5/29 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 183 million pages and 283,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
In addition to members of the faculty of law or the law school as usual, this database is available for all of the members in the trial period.
Print/Download is unavailable. (※Print/Download is available as usual, if members of the faculty of law or the law school access via IP adress of it.)
 -Trial until December 31, 2020.

■Humanities Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (5/26 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Humanities Source Ultimate offers access to key content covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It also includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in leading subject indexes to round out student research.
Humanities Source Ultimate offers a wide variety of resources, such as feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, book reviews, original works of fiction, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas and plays that illuminate human thinking, action and interaction.
In addition, hundreds of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America bring a global perspective to researching the human experience.
 -Trial until July 26, 2020.

■IGI Global 【Ended】
5,000 reference books and 230 journals published by IGI Global are available.
 -Trial until July 15, 2020.

■JSTOR (6/16 Renewal) (Searchable at OPAC)
JSTOR provides ebooks and ejournals for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
Expanded access to journals and primary sources
Expanded access to ebooks
 -Ebooks are free access until June 30, 2020. Further more, 32,000 titles of 38,000 titles are free access until August 31, 2020. (Extended)
 -Ejournals and primary sources are free access until December 31, 2020. (Extended)

■KinoDen (6/12 New)
More than 25,000 japanese ebooks are available as trial to read for 5 minutes for one time. If you want to continue to read the same ebook, please re-access it.​​
 -Trial until July 31, 2020.

■Lexis Library 【Ended】
Lexis Library is a general database of English law.
To use this database, you need this ID/password. (To access the credentials page, please log in the library website in advance.)
 -Trial until June 30, 2020.

■Loeb Classical Library (5/20 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Digital Loeb Classical Library is provided for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
It is the digital edition of the famous series of greek and latin classics.
 -Free access until June 30, 2020.

■Maruzen eBook Library (Searchable at OPAC) (7/16 Renewal)​
More than 60,000 japanese ebooks are available as trial to read for 5 minutes for one time. If you want to continue to read the same ebook, please re-access it.​
 -Trial until July 31, 2020. (Extended)

■MEDLINE Complete (EBSCOhost) (6/12追加) 
MEDLINE Complete is the leading full-text database of biomedical and health journals.
It includes more than 780 active full-text journals.
 -Trial until August 14, 2020.

■MIT Press Direct 【Ended】
MIT Press provides 2,770 ebooks for free, for university libraries and their associated students and faculty.
 -Free access until June 30, 2020.

■Oxford Handbooks Online 【Ended】
All handbooks are available.
Oxford Handbooks Online is guided by a world-class Editorial Board that bring together the world’s leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Title List
 -Trial until July 13, 2020.

■Oxford Journals Full Collection (6/9 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Issues published after 1996 are mainly available.
 -Trial until August 3, 2020.

■Oxford Medicine Online (5/20 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Oxford Medicine Online is a digital platform hosting Oxford University Press' prestigious medical titles. This resource brings together authoritative texts by world-renowned authors available online for the first time. With over 1,000 books available, many of which include exclusive digital tools such as videos to further enrich your learning and practice.
 -Trial until July 19, 2020.

■Oxford Research Encyclopedias 【Ended】
All encyclopedias are available.
Oxford University Press has invested in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias to meet this challenge. Working with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, it is developing new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics.
 -Trial until July 13, 2020.

■Oxford Scholarship Online 【Ended】
Oxford Scholarship Online provides 17,000 academic ebooks from Oxford University Press, spanning subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Title List
 -Trial until July 13, 2020.

■ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 【Ended】​
This collection contains 180,000 academic ebooks from leading publishers.
 -Special Trial until June 30, 2020.

■ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global 【Ended】
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day.
 -Special Trial until June 30, 2020.

■Science of Synthesis (5/21 New)
■Thieme Connect (5/21 New)
Science of Synthesis is the database of reference works of organic synthetic chemistry that is provided by Thieme.
In addition, three titles (SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, and SYNFACTS) are available from the first issue to the current issue at Thieme Connect.​
 -Trial until August 20, 2020.

■Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (5/26 New) (Searchable at OPAC)
Sociology Source Ultimate includes many essential titles indexed in leading citation indexes as well as hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in leading subject indexes. In addition, extensive indexing for sociology books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources is included for well-rounded research.
In addition, hundreds of English-language and native-language full-text sociology journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America bring a global perspective to researching the human experience.
More than 2,500 videos from top providers, including Journeyman, enhance the research experience for Sociology students. The videos offer a unique view of issues ranging from education and society to immigration issues, religion and politics.
 -Trial until July 26, 2020.

■Taylor & Francis eBooks 【Ended】
All of the approximately 120,000+ titles, including Routledge, CRC Press, and Informa Law, are available for full-text access and viewing.
To print out PDF, click Read Online and click Print PDF.
 -Trial until July 12, 2020.

■University Press Scholarship Online (Oxford University Press) 【Ended】
University Press Scholarship Online offers 31,000+ titles available in 31 subject areas, from Oxford and 25 other leading university presses.
The MIT Press and University Press of Mississipp are exceptions.
 -Trial until June13, 2020.

■Very Short Introductions Online (Oxford University Press) 【Ended】
All ebooks are available.
Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects.
All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
Title List
 -Trial until July 13, 2020.

■World Scientific (7/2 Renewal)
All World Scientific journal content published from 2001 are available.
 -Free access until July 31, 2020. (Extended)

Inquiry

Electronic Resources Management Section, Kyushu University Library
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