Kyushu University Library will be temporarily unavailable due to library system upgrades.
All libraries will be closed on Sunday, November 27 due to the library system upgrades.
Services will be unavailable on the following dates.
November 16 - November 30
[Ito Campus] Central Library / Scitech Library / Online
The titles in the following list will no longer be available from January 2023 due to the cancellation of subscriptions or exclusion from a package.
[2023 Unavailable E-Journals Title List (as of September 12th, 2022)]
Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) is working to promote the publication and utilization of our university's research results with our open access policy and collection policy.
In order to promote further utilization of publicly available content, the metadata (*1) will be made open and freely available to third parties as described below.
November 21th(Thu), 28th(Thu), 2024
Zoom Webinar
One of the world's largest citation databases, Scopus,
Reference Management Tool, Mendeley,
Research Performance Analysis Tool, SciVal
We will hold an online webinar for faculty, staff, and students on the above-mentioned research activity support tools, inviting lecturers from Elsevier Japan, the provider of the tools.
We will also introduce SciVal and the version upgrades since last year, so please join us even if you have joined the workshop in the past.
We have registered various research outputs created by the researchers and graduate students in the University to Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) and make them open through Collections.
Now newly added contents in August are as below. As you can see, we have over 50,000 contents in QIR.
We will conduct a trial of CNKI (中国知网) academic literature online service.
CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) is a comprehensive academic information database in China, which contains various databases such as academic journals, important newspapers, doctoral/degree theses, and important academic conference papers.
During the trial period, you can use the following databases.
The number of simultaneous accesses is 3. Please be sure to click the logout button to logout after using the service.
Open Access Week is an event launched by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of academic and research libraries union and the student community.
Kyushu University Collections have been connected to "Japan Search" since Oct. 25, 2021.
Japan Search is a platform that allows users to search, view, and utilize wide variety of contents in a single place by connecting to various digital archives.
