(Update: July 7, 2023)
All of supports have finished up to June 30, 2023.
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To support remote teaching and research during the COVID-19, many publishers and content providers offer free access to their online resources. Available contents for HU members are as follows.
*You can search for available e-journals and e-books at HU from following online catalogues.
Provider | Details of contents | Resources | Expiration | Access conditions from off-campus |
n/a JSTOR | 2,800 ejournals | JSTOR | 30 Jun. 2023 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a JSTOR | 19th Century British Pamphlets, Global Plants, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa,World Heritage Sites: Africa | Primary Sources | 30 Jun. 2023 | VPN Connection Required |
The resources for which trial access has ended are as follows.
Provider | Details of contents | Resources | Expiration | Access conditions from off-campus |
n/a Wiley | Over 21,000 ebooks | Wiley Online Library | 8 May 2022 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a EBSCO | 600 e-books | Harvard Business Publishing Collection | 31 May. 2020
| VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Taylor & Francis | Over 140,000 ebooks | Taylor & Francis ebooks | 27 Jun. 2020
| VPN Connection Required |
n/a ProQuest | Over 20,000 ejournals | ProQuest Central | 30 Jun. 2020
| VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a ProQuest | 2.25 million dissertations | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global | 30 Jun. 2020 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a ProQuest | Over 180,000 ebooks | Ebook Central | 30 Jun. 2020 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a ProQuest | Over 60,000 video materials | Academic Video Online | 30 Jun. 2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a Oxford University Press | Over 30,000 academic and Introductory ebooks, handbook and reference databases
| University Press Scholarship Online (including OSO)
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Oxford Research Encyclopedias Oxford Handbooks Online Very Short Introductions Online | 30 Jun. 2020 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Oxford University Press | 1,400 medical ebooks & manual of style
| Oxford Medicine Online
AMA Manual of Style
| 19 Jul. 2020 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Oxford University Press | 357 ejournals
| Oxford Journals Collection | 24 Jul. 2020 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a De Gruyter
| 75,000 e-books published from 1650 to 2016 | De Gruyter | 30 Jun. 2020 31 Jul. 2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a EBSCO | Over 17,500 ejournals | Academic Search Ultimate Business Source Ultimate Humanities Source Ultimate Sociology Source Ultimate Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate | 2 Aug. 2020 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Thieme | 3 ejournals & Full-text resource for methods in synthetic organic chemistry (More information)
| Thieme Connect(Synthesis, Synlett, Synfacts)
Science of Synthesis
| 20 Aug. 2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a Bentham Science | 130 ejournals [Accessible period:2000-2020] | Bentham Science Publishers | 31 Aug. 2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a JSTOR | 32,000 ebooks | JSTOR | 30 Jun. 2020 31 Aug.2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a ASME | 31 ejournals | American Society for Mechanical Engineers journals | 9 Dec. 2020 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a JSTOR | Over 2.5 million images of museum collections and photo archives around the world | Artstor Digital Library | 30 Jun. 2021 | VPN Connection Required |
n/a EBSCOhost | Over 10,000 Japanese ebooks | EBSCOhost ebooks | 25 Aug. 2021
25 Sep. 2021 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a EBSCOhost | Over 180,000 ebooks | Academic Collection | 25 Aug. 2021
25 Sep. 2021 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a EBSCOhost | 550 ebooks on leadership, strategy, innovation and management | Harvard Business Review Press Collection | 25 Aug. 2021
25 Sep. 2021 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
n/a Maruzen-Yushodo
| Over 100,000 Japanese & English ebooks | Maruzen eBook Library
| 26 Mar. 2022 | VPN Connection or Shibboleth/Institutional login Required |
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