Due to the library information system maintenance, some online services including HERMES-Catalog will be temporary unavailable as follows.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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| Date and Time | Service stop |
| Mon, July 21, 2025 9:00 – 22:30 | HERMES-Catalog HERMES-IR MyLibrary etc. ※Request Form is available. ※Please see the Library announcement for details. |
'Request Rare Books’ form on our website is down for maintenance as follows:
from 8:00 to 13:30 on June 4th.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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The CHSSL will be closed on the afternoon of Fri., June 20 and Mon., June 23 – Wed., June 25.
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'Request Rare Books’ form on our website is down for maintenance as follows:
from 17:30 to 19:30 on March 13th.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form is down for maintenance as follows:
from 9:00 to 17:00 on February 6th.
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Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form is down for maintenance as follows:
from 10:00 to 16:00 on November 7th.
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The CHSSL will be closed on Mon., Oct. 21 – Wed., Oct. 23.
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The Center for Historical Social Science Literature (CHSSL) is currently making its digital collections available on JSTOR Shared Collections. Through this service, we offer access to digitalized classical materials of Western social science, fostering the development of humanities and social sciences. Our mission is to extend Hitotsubashi University’s rich educational and research resources to researchers and institutions globally, facilitating scholarly endeavors both in Japan and abroad.
Available Now:
Stay Tuned for Future Additions.
We published Study Series No. 81. It is available on HERMES-IR. (Only PDF edition. Print edition is not published.)
Study Series, No.81（February 2024)
Tomomi FUKUSHIMA, Koichi YUKISHIMA, Yuji SAKAKURA. Comment utiliser la littérature classique occidentale archivée au Japon : études de cas à partir des livres rares de la collection Corvaia (bibliothèque de l’université Waseda). = How to make use of Western classical literature archived in Japan : focusing on rare books from the Corvaia Collection at Waseda University Library. (in Japanese)
Study Series, No.76（March 2020）
Yuji Sakakura, Takeshi Koseki, Kyoko Matsunami. Describing Books, Describing the World: Looking at the Age of Enlightenment through Bibliography. (in Japanese)
Study Series, No.80（September 2022）
Akira Takano, Eriko Nakai ; Purpose of the symposium by Shinichi Nagao. Present stage of Descriptive Bibliography and archival research on Western rare books. (in Japanese)
Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form is down for maintenance as follows:
from 13:00 to 17:00 on January 30th.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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