Category:Maintenance

Due to scheduled maintenance of the Hiroshima University Institutional Repository, some services will be temporarily unavailable as outlined below.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.

【Service Suspension Schedule】

Date & Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
*Please note that the end time may vary depending on the progress of the maintenance work.

【Services Affected】

Access to the Institutional Repository website (including all search and viewing functions)
Viewing of restricted doctoral dissertation files on the website

Please note:

Printed doctoral dissertations will remain available for request and viewing as usual.
Requests for new registrations to the repository will be accepted as usual.

【Inquiries】
（Regarding the repository）
Repository Team
Email: tosho-kikaku-jyoho[at]office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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（Regarding doctoral dissertation viewing）
Reference Services
Email: tosho-fukyu-wrc[at]office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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All services of JapanKnowledge will be unavailable due to system maintenance.

<Schedule>
10:00-13:00 on Saturday, March 8, 2025 (Japan Time)

<Suspended service>
All JapanKnowledge Services (JapanKnowledge Lib, Select contents and JKBooks)

Thank you for your understanding.

Contact:Library Information Distribution Group
           tosho-fukyu-wrc[at]office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Due to system migration, the registration of academic content (new releases, updates, etc.) to the Hiroshima University Institutional Repository will be temporarily suspended.  
 
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and we appreciate your kind understanding.

Period of Content Registration Suspension:

Registration requests will be accepted from February 3, 2025 (Monday) onward.  
We will process them sequentially once the system migration is complete. The schedule for the repository release under the new system will be announced at a later date.

Please note that the schedule is tentative, and we will inform you of any changes as soon as possible.

For inquiries, please contact: Hiroshima University Library, Institutional Repository Section

Hiroshima University Library, Institutional Repository Section  
tosho-kikaku-jyoho[at]office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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All services of JapanKnowledge will be unavailable due to system maintenance.

<Schedule>
8:00-17:00 on Saturday, November 30, 2024 (Japan Time)

<Suspended service>
Thank you for your understanding.

All services of JapanKnowledge will be unavailable due to system maintenance.

<Schedule>
8:00-17:00 on Saturday, November 9, 2024 (Japan Time)

<Suspended service>
All JapanKnowledge Services (JapanKnowledge Lib, Select contents and JKBooks)
Thank you for your understanding.

Some services of Nihon-Bungaku Web library will be unavailable due to server error.

<Suspended service>
Using and searching of "Waka, Renka Library"

Thank you for your understanding.

Contact:
  Library Information Development Group

All services of KinoDen will be unavailable due to system maintenance.

<Schedule>
21:00-23:00 on Monday, 29 July 2024 (Japan Time)

<Suspended service>
KinoDen Services (Website and bREADER Cloud)

Thank you for your understanding.

Contact:
  Library Information Development Group

All services of JapanKnowledge will be unavailable due to system maintenance.

<Schedule>
9:00-14:00 on Saturday, 25 May 2024 (Japan Time)

<Suspended service>
All JapanKnowledge Services (JapanKnowledge Lib, Select contents and JKBooks)

Thank you for your understanding.

Contact:
  Library Information Development Group

Due to maintenance, Maruzen eBook Library is expected to be unavailable from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Thank you for your understanding.

*End time may vary depending on the maintenance status.


Contact:
  Library Information Development Group

  Library Information Development Group

Due to equipment inspection and system maintenance, our web services will be unavailable.

【1】Aug. 27, 8:25-18:30
Unavailable:
・OPAC search
・User menu
・Opening hours  *All libraries of HU are closed in Aug. 28th.
・Webpage of "https://opac.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/..."
・E-mail services
・Special collection DB (webpage of "https://dc.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/...")
・HARP (webpage of "http://harp.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/...")

Available:
・E-journal, Database
・What's new
・HiR (webpage of "https://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/...")

【2】Aug. 28, 8:30-10:00
Unavailable:
・OPAC search
・User menu
・Opening hours *All libraries will open at 8:30 on Aug. 28th.
・Webpage of "https://opac.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/..."
・E-mail services

Available:
・E-journal, Database
・What's new
・HiR (webpage of "https://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/...")


<Inquiry>
Library Information Planning Group
E-mail: tosho-kikku-jyoho@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

  Library Information Development Group

  Library Information Development Group

Unavailable:
・OPAC search
・User menu
・Webpage of "dc.lib-, harp.lib-, opac.lib-"
・Auto Lib at Central library


<Inquiry>
Library Information Planning Group
E-mail: tosho-kikku-jyoho@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Due to maintenance, our following web services will be unavailable from 18:00 to 18:50 on Wednesday, Mar. 2nd.

Unavailable:
・Login(User authentication): the whole time
・User menu: few minutes
・OPAC search: few minutes

<Inquiry>
Library Information Planning Group
E-mail: tosho-kikku-jyoho@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Contact:
  Library Information Development Group

Some library services unavailable March 19, 8:30 - 9:00am for the network maintenance.

  Date : Thursday, March 19th, 8:30am. - 9:00am.
   * Time schedule might be changed.

This will include:
  Borrow and Renew materials
  Online Library Catalog (OPAC)
  Library Login Services
  E-mail Alert Service
  Website (http://opac.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
  Special Collection Databases
  HARP (Hirosima Associated Repository Portal)

EndNote online servieces from Thomson Reuters are expected to be unavailable for approximately nine hours from 4p.m. Saturday, August 1st to 1a.m. Sunday, August 2nd.


Contact:
  Library Information Development Group
  E-mail : tosho-fukyu-wrc@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

The following products and services are expected to be unavailable for approximately three and a half hours on Sunday, August 2nd from 7:00a.m. to 11:30a.m.

* ScienceDirect
* Scopus
* Mendely

Contact:
  Library Information Development Group
  E-mail : tosho-fukyu-wrc@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Due to our System Maintenance, the service will not be available during the time duration as below;

Services won't be available：Hiroshima University OPAC Search.
 June 6 (Fri) 9:00 - 15:00　

＊During the time duration of maintenace, please ask library staffs where the books or journals are.

Please be advised that Web of Knowledge will release a new look and feel beginning on Sunday January 12, 2014 at 2300 JST and ending by Monday, January 13, 2014 at 1100 JST. Web of Knowledge may not be available intermittently during that period. We apologize for any interruption this may cause.

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Library Information Distribution Group
Hiroshima University Library
E-mail:tosho-fukyu-wrc@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp