THE BASIC GUIDE OF T.U.F.S LIBRARY

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contents:

1 Search for resources in T.U.F.S

2 How to use other libraries’ resources

A TAC (Tama Academic Consortium)

B ILL (Interlibrary loan) / Photocopy request

3 Search for articles

A Japanese articles (CiNii Articles)

B English articles (ProQuest etc.)

4 How to use online resources from outside of the campus

1 Search for resources in T.U.F.S.

5. Limit by language, Format

etc.

6. Link for item details.

Search on the OPAC

http://www-lib.tufs.ac.jp/opac/

1. Access to T.U.F.S. website

2. Select “English”

3. Search on the OPAC (click “Top page”)

4. Enter details of the item (e.g. title, author, ISBN

etc.).

* When you search by title, only title of books and

journals are available (NOT title of the articles)

③

⑤

②

⑥

④

7. Check the Information about the item such as:

Status

Location

Call Number

Language

Subject

8. By using “Advanced search”, you can

search by language and subject.

Call number

The call number is the

number written on the

spine of the book.

☞What is ISBN / ISSN?

ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is an

unique book number. ISSN is a journal number. Both

numbers are useful for search and order.

2 How to use other libraries’ resources

A TAC (Tama Academic Consortium)1 : http://opac.icu.ac.jp/tacopac/

1 Tama Academic Consortium (TAC) is a university consortium formed by six universities (Kunitachi

College of Music, International Christian University (ICU), Tsuda College, Tokyo Keizai University,

Musashino Art University and T.U.F.S).

Search on TACOPAC

TLL Service is a mutual cooperation service,

which you can use to borrow the materials

belonging to other TAC libraries.

You don’t need to pay the postage, and other

fees.

1. Access to T.U.F.S. website

2. Click “TACOPAC” (*In Japanese)

3. Search by title, author, publisher etc.

4. Click the link of the result and check the

details.

5. Fill out an application form and bring it to

the service counter.

Title

Title

TAC Borrowing/Return service

TUFS students can register as users and use the materials in the other TAC libraries.

The users can also return the materials at the TUFS service counter.

For more detail, please check the TAC website

http://www-lib.icu.ac.jp/TAC/index.html

Kunitachi

ICU Tsuda

TUFS Tokyo Keizai

Musashino

B ILL (Interlibrary loan) / Photocopy request (CiNii Books):

https://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/?l=en

By clicking links, you can search on the databases by the same keywords from T.U.F.S. OPAC

ILL (Inter Library Loan) is a mutual cooperation service, which enables you to photocopy or borrow

(books only) materials belonging to other institutions. You can get the materials from other institutions at

the T.U.F.S. Library Service Counter.

For getting the information of the materials, search CiNii Books. CiNii books covers the data of books

and journals of universities & institutes in Japan (All fields）.

*Please check whether the material you want to read is in our library or not beforehand.

Search on CiNii Books

1. Access to CiNii Books.

2. Enter details of the item (e.g.

title, author etc. of the books).

3. Click the link of the result and

check the details.

Title

Author

Library list

NCID

NCID is a book or

journal’s ID.

Order from MyLibrary

https://www-lib.tufs.ac.jp/portal/user.p

hp?plang=eng

1. Access to MyLibrary from T.U.F.S

website.

2. Enter your ID and Password (same

ID/PASS for logging in the library

PCs).

3. Click the link for “Inter Library”

4. Select “photocopy requests” or

“book loan requests”.

5. Fill the form and confirm it.

*Please select “private” for “Pay type”.

*book loan fee costs around

¥500-¥1000.

*3-4 days need for arrival.

3 Search for articles

A Japanese articles CiNii Articles http://ci.nii.ac.jp/en

CiNii articles

•Covers 20.5 million articles

published by Japanese

institutes.

•6 million articles available

online

•Reference, citation

information

Article title

Author

Name of journal, Periodical number &Date of publication

1. Enter details of the item (e.g. title, author etc. of the articles).

2. Check the search item details.

Full text is available online

Check other availabilities OPAC: T.U.F.S Library CiNiiBooks: University libraries NDL: National Diet Library

Name of journal, Periodical number &Date of publication

B English articles (online databases)

http://www.tufs.ac.jp/library/guide/list/online.html

ProQuest

ProQuest

•Covers a wide range of the core

academic titles, from business and the

sciences to literature and politics. The

database expands daily and currently

includes more than 6,000 titles, 75% of

which are available in full text.

•On-campus access only

Search on the databases

1. Access to T.U.F.S. website

2. Click “Online Research Resources (Databases)”

1. Change to the English mode

2. Select the Databases

3. Enter the keywords

* When you search “Full text”,

check the box.

* Limit the results by using “Narrow

results”

4. Check the search item details.

How can we retrieve the articles without “Full text” link?

1. Access to T.U.F.S. OPAC.

2. Search by the journal title.

3. Check the periodical number &Date of publication.

4. Check the location.

*Books are placed in alphabetical order of the journal title.

Article title

Author

Name of journal, Periodical number &Date of publication

Full text is available online

4 How to use online resource from outside of the campus

You can access databases outside TUFS with the VPN service or GakuNin even if their access is limited to "on campus*"

or "on campus".

VPN service and GakuNin

VPN service GakuNin

available services Services to which access is limited to

"on campus*" or "on campus"

Services which have in the

GakuNin column

How to use Installation of special software Authorization via browser

ID/PASS ICC account

Network Password (red)

ICC account

ICC Password (blue)

How to start Download the soft from T.U.F.S

website

Apply for the service at the library

service counter.

For more details:

VPN service http://www.tufs.ac.jp/library/guide/list/online_vpn.html

GakuNin http://www.tufs.ac.jp/library/guide/list/online_gakunin.html

How can we retrieve Newspapers articles? A. Online resources

1. Access to T.U.F.S. website

2. Click “Online Research Resources (Databases)”

3. 聞蔵（Kikuzo）

Asahi-Shinbun online

database, covers entire

1945-Today’s articles.

4. Press Reader:

Covers over 6000

titles of newspapers

and magazines

published in 100

countries.

B. Newspapers

1. Access to T.U.F.S. OPAC.

2. Click “Newspaper List”

3. Titles are listed in orders below:

Area>Alphabetical order of the

Country name>Alphabetical order

of the title.

*An article on the head of a title is

excluded.

4. Check the holdings and

location.